Schedule Of Events
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Winter-Spring 2013

Dr. Vera Goodkin, professor emeritus at Mercer County Community College who escaped the Holocaust with the help of famed rescuer Raoul Wallenberg, will offer a presentation in observance of Holocaust Remembrance Day. > details

Holocaust/Genocide Resource Center
(2nd floor of Library Bldg., West Windsor Campus)

March 7, 2013, 4:30 p.m.
Professional Development Workshop

The descendant of a Holocaust survivor, Josh Besserman, will offer a professional development workshop on using the documentary film “Only a Number” in Holocaust curriculum. > details

Holocaust/Genocide Resource Center
(2nd floor of Library Bldg., West Windsor Campus)

February 13, 2013, 4:30 p.m.
Lecture: Jasha Levi, Author and Holocaust Survivor

The community is invited to a lecture by author and Holocaust survivor Jasha Levi. Now 90 years old, Mr. Levi will recall his life as an anti-Nazi student revolutionary and anti-Soviet protestor, as well as his career path as a foreign reporter and then an American laborer, draftsman, sales clerk, and executive of two national non-profits. > details   > event recap

Holocaust/Genocide Resource Center
(2nd floor of Library Bldg., West Windsor Campus)

January 31, 2013 - 6 p.m.
Open House and Film Screening

The film "Children of Terror" will be shown at 7:30 p.m., followed by a Q&A with the producer, Rider University Professor Dr. Shawn Kildea. > details

PAST EVENTS

Fall Semester 2012

October 11, 2012 - 4:30 p.m.
Participate in OUCH: Your Silence Hurts! and learn how to go from being a bystander to being an upstander in the face of everyday bias, prejudice and hatred. This is a great session for students and teachers. > details

October 17, 2012 - 4:30 p.m.
Join us for the grand opening of BESA: Muslim Albanian Rescuers of the Holocaust. This international exhibit features the photographs and biographies of the brave men and women who valued honor in the face of adversity, hiding their Jewish neighbors from Nazi invaders during World War II. We are proud to partner with the Muslim Student Association of Mercer County Community College for this event. > details

November 13, 2012 - 4:30 p.m.
Commemorate Kristallnacht with A Day to Remember: Survivors and Recipes. Mercer County Community College Culinary Arts Professor Frank Benowitz will cook up traditional Ashkenazi dishes as we review recipes and survivor stories from “The Holocaust Survivor Cookbook.“ > details

Spring Semester 2012

The community is invited. Guests will meet the co-directors and learn more about the facility's resources and programming. K-12 educators will find materials to assist them in teaching about the lessons of the Holocaust and other genocides. > details

Holocaust/Genocide Resource Center
(2nd floor of Library Bldg., West Windsor Campus)

February 29, 2012 - 4:30 p.m.
Shake Hands with the Devil

Eugenie Mukeshimana, survivor of the Rwandan Genocide, will lead us in a discussion of Romeo Dallaire’s powerful indictment of the UN and those world superpowers that turned a blind eye to the Rwandan massacre. > details

March 28, 2012 - 4:30 p.m.
Echoes & Reflections

A powerful 21st Century resource created by the ADL to connect Holocaust education to current curriculum and academic standards using interactive web-based technology. Participants will receive an underwritten copy of this award-winning curriculum. > details   -- registration required

April 4, 2012 - 4:30 p.m.
War Horse

How can a book (or a play, or a movie) teach peace? Learn about how contemporary fiction can be used to teach tolerance and respect in the classroom from veteran educators Elizabeth DeGiorgio (MCHGRC Co-Director and Education Professor, MCCC) and Lisa O’Neill (MCHGRC Advisory Commission Member and Guidance Counselor, Steinert HS). > details

April 18, 2012 - 7 p.m.
Only a Number

Congregation Beth Chaim, 329 Village Rd E., Princeton Jct., NJ 08550
Mercer County honors Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) with a FREE screening of one New Jersey survivor’s story. Discussion with the filmmaker, Steve Besserman, to follow. Only a Number, Besserman’s own mother’s biography, has won multiple film festival awards and is now being used in classrooms across the Garden State.

May 15, 2012 - 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Annual Professional Development Workshop

Teaching Holocaust/Genocide while fulfilling NJ Core Curriculum Content Standards: Reinvigorate your classroom with exciting ideas and fresh lesson plans!

Fall Semester 2011

The community is invited to an important talk by Dr. Mary Johnson, author and senior historian with Facing History and Ourselves, who will host a vibrant discussion on one of the most commonly used books cited in New Jersey’s Holocaust education curriculum, “Night,” by Elie Wiesel. > details

To register for this lecture, click here.

Holocaust/Genocide Resource Center
(2nd floor of Library Bldg., West Windsor Campus)

October 27, 2011, noon
Lecture: "South Sudan: Destruction and Rebirth"

Spring Semester 2011

The community is invited to join in a conversation about the Iris Chang controversial bestseller published in 1997.

Professor Saul Goldwasser, Director of the Mercer County Holocaust/Genocide Resource Center, notes, "We will look at the filters of national and political interests that impact the maintenance of historical records. We will also talk about bias in the media and in cultural memory with regard to history, government, language arts, and sociology. What is the appropriate response to atrocities of such magnitude? How are subsequent generations expected to process events such as these and incorporate them into their national identity?" > details

Holocaust/Genocide Resource Center
(2nd floor of Library Bldg., West Windsor Campus)

May 17, 2011, 8:30 a.m. - 1:15 p.m.
Annual teachers Workshop at the Conference Center, Mercer County Community College, West Windsor Campus:

Topic: "When Controversy Enters the Classroom: From Stereotyping to Bullying."

Early Registration call State of NJ Commission on Holocaust Education, 609-292-9274

Fall Semester 2010

Spring Semester 2010

Spring Semester 2008

Film: SAND AND SORROW a Darfur Documentary narrated by George Clooney with Elie Wiesel. NY Times Columnist Nicholas Kristof, Harvard Professor Samantha Power and Barack Obama. Shown at noon in CM 109 on the West Windsor Campus of Mercer County Community College. Free and Open to the Public

Professor Emeritus Irving Louis Horowitz
University Professor & Hannah Arendt Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Political Science - Rutgers University

GENOCIDE: Twenty-First Century Variations on the Theme of Genocide

Lecture at noon in CM 109 on the West Windsor Campus of Mercer County Community College. Prof. Horowitz's book, Taking Lives: Genocide and State Power (5th edition) may be purchased in the college bookstore. Lecture is free and open to the public.

This year's topic: BYSTANDER TO UPSTANDER: HOW TO ENCOURAGE POSTIVE ACTION

Starting at 9:00 A.M. in the Conference, MCCC, West Windsor Campus. Followed by a late afternoon session starting at 4:30 PM. Open to all interested parties.

Workshops are free and open to all NJ teachers. Late afternoon session continues and is open to all Mercer County teachers and others. Lunch and dinner served. Sponsored by Mercer County Holocaust/Genocide Center in conjunction with the Mercer County NJ Teachers' Association and the State of New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education. Five professional development hours are available to teachers.

For further information, contact Dr. Paul Winkler:

http://www.holocaust@doe.state.nj.us