Holocaust Resource Center Events
Upcoming Events
Personal Items Drive
January to April 2025
Join Kean University's Diversity Council, SREI, Center for International Studies, Career Services, and Wellness Center in this Personal Items Drive. Drop off areas include: HRC (NTLC 2nd Floor), Career Services (CAS 201), Office of Student Retention (CAS 123), and Kean Wellness Center (Downs Hall).
For any questions, please email: hrc@kean.edu or vitolac@kean.edu
MLK Day Civics Education Presentation
Thursday, January 23, 2025 from 3:15 to 4:30pm in the Human Rights Institute Gallery
Join us in honoring the legacy of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. for a lesson on unity, equity, social justice and the significance of civic participation.
For more information, please contact: Mindy Goldstein at goldsmin@kean.edu
International Holocaust Remembrance Day: Quarantining Hate
Wednesday, Janurary 29, 2025 at 4:30pm EST via Zoom
Join the HRC, the Diversity Council, and the Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ in this commemorative lecture by Kerrie Taber as she describes her project into her family's history and how she uses her research to show what can happen when society pushes back against hate.
Diversity Council General Assembly Meeting Featuring Author Lee Hawkins
February 4, 2025 at 4:30pm in the Miron Student Center, Room 228
Lee Hawkins is an American investigative journalist and author who was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2022. His most recent work documents the lives of Black American descendants of slavery and Jim Crow survivors, exploring the intergenerational impact of racial violence and racism on their families. Participants will receive curriculum resources to help implement Lee’s work into the classroom. Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
Hour of Need
Rescue in Denmark: Teaching about the Holocaust through Graphic Novels
Tuesday, February 25, 2025 at 4:30pm EST via Zoom
Please join the Holocaust Resource Center and New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education for a workshop, where participants will explore factors that led to widespread resistance in Denmark and learn how to bring Hour of Need: The Daring Escape of the Danish Jews during World War II into the classroom.
Watching OUT: Learning from History to Fight for the Future
Friday, February 28, 2025 at 12pm EST via Zoom
Join the Holocaust Resource Center and the Pink Triangle Legacies Project's team of experts to explore the history of the Nazi persecution of LGBTQ+ people. They will identify the top historical lessons that will help attendees understand and push back against the attack on LGBTQ+ rights in the US today. Attendees will be equipped with tools and information necessary to actively fight homophobia and transphobia in their communities.
For more information, contact Sarah Coykendall, coykends@kean.edu | 908-737-4632
Teaching Holocaust Herstories: Mothers, Daughters, Fighters, Survivors
Thursday, March 6, 2025 at 4:30pm EST via Zoom
Please join the Holocaust Resource Center for our Women's History Month program featuring Dr. Lauren Granite from Centropa.
Learn about how women's sex, societal roles, and assumptions about gender shaped their experiences during the Holocaust, and how a gender analysis can help educators and students identify social inequalities.
Yom HaShoah Commemoration
Wednesday, April 23, 2025 at 5:00pm EST via Zoom
Please join the Holocaust Resource Center for our annual Yom HaShoah Commemoration. Co-presented by the Holocaust Council at Jewish Federation of Greater MetroWest NJ and Saint Elizabeth University's Center for Holocaust and Genocide Education.
This year's program is a film screening of Monument followed by a talkback with the filmmaker, Michael Turner. Turner is a grandchild of Holocaust survivors.