News

March 1-8

Bearing Witness to the Past: A Journey to Auschwitz

March 1

The Center for Holocaust, Genocide & Human Rights Studies participated in the “2nd Annual College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences Forum on Human Rights” at Virginia Tech. Seven UNC Charlotte undergraduate students presented research papers at the forum.

April 7

Yom HaShoah event at the Jewish Community Center of Charlotte:

“UNCC Reflections from Auschwitz”: A panel of students from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte share their experiences as participants in the recent Study Abroad program in Poland

April 7, 2013, event at the Jewish Community Center of Charlotte

April 24

Talk and Discussion with Yiddish language and culture expert Miriam Isaacs

Visiting Associate Professor of Yiddish, Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies, University of Maryland College Park; Research Fellow, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

 “A Common Language in Uncommon Times”

Levine-Sklut Judaic Library, Shalom Park, Charlotte

October 24

“Women´s Empowerment and Challenges in Guatemala”

MARIA PACHECO lecture & discussion on international development, sustainable self-empowerment, and her work with Mayan women artisans and others in Guatemala

Ms. Pacheco has recently been featured as “one of 12 visionaries igniting idealism into action” in the book Hearts on Fire (by Jill Iscol, with a forward by Bill Clinton).

She formed Kiej de los Bosques, an organization that works with artisans to develop their designs and expand their businesses, linking rural communities to markets around the world. Maria is also developing a program (for the UN) that will generate sources of income for communities living in or around natural World Heritage Sites, while protecting the surrounding ecosystem.

October 29

Hamdija Custovic of the local Bosnian Muslim community and regional representative of the Bosniak Congress of North America speaks on the Bosnian genocide

A memorial wall at Potocari cemetery with the names of victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre

November 15

“Defiance”: film-showing with discussion; part of International Education Week

December 3

Lecture and discussion with Holocaust survivor Suly Chenkin

February 6

Sparrow in Gun Barrel of Tank – Prokhorovka (Battle of Kursk) – Russia
Photograph by Adam Jones

Visiting scholar Dr. Eric C. Steinhart From the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, DC)

Lecture and discussion:
“Soviet Collaborators and the Holocaust in Ukraine”

March 22

Participated in teacher-training workshop organized by the North Carolina Council on the Holocaust

Memorial at the National University of Rwanda, Butare

 March 29

Lecture by Holocaust historian Christopher Browning, Temple Beth-El, Charlotte

Dr. Browning is a History professor at UNC Chapel Hill, and is widely known for his book ‘Ordinary Men.’ Other major works by Browning include ‘The Path to Genocide’ and ‘The Origins of the Final Solution.’ Three of his books have won the National Jewish Book Award—Holocaust Category. Dr. Browning has been an expert witness at trials of accused Nazi criminals in Australia, Canada, and the U.K. His latest book, ‘Remembering Survival: Inside a Nazi Slave Labor Camp,’ is a study of factory slave laborers in Poland.

April 18

Participated in Courage and Compassion: A Panel Discussion with the Bielski Family, Levine Museum of the New South

In conjunction with the Courage and Compassion exhibit at Levine Museum of the New South, Assaela Weinstein, daughter of one of the Bielski brothers who established and led the partisan community in the forests of Belarus, along with other descendants of the Bielski family, take part in a panel discussion on the history of the Bielski partisans. Part of the “Violins of Hope” series of events.

July 2012

Participated in the 11th Annual Martin & Doris Rosen Symposium on “Remembering the Holocaust: A Summer Symposium for Educators and the Community,” Appalachian State University’s Center for Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies

September 13: Co-sponsored interfaith clergy event (“Clergy Beyond Borders”) with Muslim Students Association, Temple  Beth-El, Temple Israel, Mecklenburg Ministries, others

November 16: “Lost Boys of Sudan”; film-showing followed by discussion; part of International Education Week

December 5: lecture on campus by Holocaust survivor Manfred Katz