Effective ways to teach historical understanding and promote literacy goals Holocaust literature can immerse students in the past, helping them consider how the ...

TEXT ON SCREEN: From Citizens to Outcasts, 1933-1938 NARRATOR: Before the Nazis assumed power, Jews enjoyed all rights of citizenship in Germany. After 1933, the German government gradually excluded ...

Summer Graduate Student Research Fellowships support early-career graduate students in three-month residencies at the Mandel Center to provide them the opportunity to test ideas, share research ...

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies is pleased to award fellowships-in-residence to support significant research and writing about the Holocaust.

At the time of Phnom Penh’s fall, the Cambodian economy was at a virtual standstill due to the devastation of the civil war and the bombing. The Khmer Rouge intensified the paralysis with a series of ...

Genocide and mass atrocities are commonly preceded and accompanied by “dangerous speech”—hate speech that has the potential to influence people to accept, condone, or commit violence against targeted ...

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum deeply mourns the passing of Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor, Nobel laureate, and international leader of the Holocaust remembrance movement.

After the war many ordinary Germans and Europeans claimed that they were “not involved” in Nazi crimes. 1 The construction of such postwar memories—and abdication of any responsibility for what ...

Some Were Neighbors: Collaboration & Complicity in the Holocaust addresses one of the central questions about the Holocaust: How was it possible? The central role of Hitler and other Nazi Party ...

The Simon-Skjodt Center reviewed research about selected atrocity prevention tools to help policy makers develop effective responses to atrocity crises and help inform ongoing and future research.

The international policy responses to the second north–south war (1985–2005) varied greatly over the 20 years of the conflict, due to factors like the Cold War, multiple conflicts and regime changes ...

Inspired by the teachings of Mao Zedong, the Khmer Rouge came to espouse a radical agrarian ideology based on strict one-party rule, rejection of urban and Western ideas, and abolition of private ...