Past Events | Kean University

Spring 2025

Flyer for Looking with Knowledge: Holocaust & Genocide Education for Administration, includes photo of administrators talking

Leading with Knowledge: Holocaust & Genocide Education for Administrators

Monday, May 5, 2025, in the Liberty Hall Academic Center, Kean University

Presented in partnership by the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education, Holocaust Resource Center of Kean University, and the Community of Holocaust Education Centers at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, this one-day conference provides Curriculum Supervisors and Chief School Administrators with the tools and techniques to help support teachers in meeting the NJ Holocaust and Genocide Education Mandate.

Participants will explore strategies, resources, and lesson plans to create age-appropriate, NJSLS-aligned curricula that promote critical thinking, empathy, and understanding of genocide. Administrators will also learn about new resources and program offerings from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and HRC. Each participant will receive free classroom resources.

6 professional development hours, refreshments, and a light lunch will be provided. For questions, please contact the NJ Commission on Holocaust Education at holocaust@doe.nj.gov or Holocaust Resource Center at hrc@kean.edu.

Personal Items Drive

January to April 2025

Join Kean University's HREC, SREI, Center for International Studies, Career Services, and Wellness Center in this Personal Items Drive. Drop off areas include: HREC (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

Yom HaShoah Commemoration

Wednesday, April 23, 2025, 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.

Flyer for film screening of Aurora's Sunrise, on pink and purple background

Film Screening: Aurora's Sunrise

Thursday, April 17, 2025, via Zoom

Join us for our Armenian Genocide Commemoration as we watch the true story of how a fourteen-year-old girl escaped the slaughter, and embarked upon an odyssey that took her to the heights of Hollywood stardom. Director Inna Sahakyan will be joining for a Q&A session at the end.

Professional development hours and co-curricular credits will be provided.

General Assembly Meeting: Teaching about the Nazis' LGBTQ+ Victims

Tuesday, April 8, 2025, via Zoom

In this session, award-winning historian and educator Dr. Jake Newsome will equip participants with the knowledge and tools they need to confidently teach about how and why the Nazi regime targeted LGBTQ+ people during the era of the Holocaust. The session will include a keynote lecture that provides an overview of the history, an introduction to educational resources, including a primary source activity for the classroom, and a forum with representatives from the Pink Triangle Legacies Project discussing terminology, challenges and opportunities, and alignment with state mandates. Participants will receive exclusive access to digital educator resource packets curated by the experts at the Pink Triangle Legacies Project.

1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda Commemorative Event featuring Providence Nkurunziza

Wednesday, April 2, 2025, via Zoom

The 10am Zoom is intended for students, especially if teachers want to have the viewing during class.

Providence Nkurunziza is an author, inspirational speaker, and women and children advocate. As a genocide survivor, she believes there is a responsibility to bear witness to save the next generation from falling into the same trap of experiencing such sinister events, since nobody is immune to the genocide.

Virtual Guided Tour of Majdanek Concentration and Death Camp

Monday, March 24, 2025, EST via Zoom

Located near Lublin, German-occupied Poland, Majdanek was a Nazi concentration and death camp that operated from 1941 to 1944. Approximately 78,000 people died at Majdanek, a symbol of Nazi brutality and genocide. The virtual guided tour for students grades 9-12 will explore the many original structures at Majdanek, one of the best preserved Nazi camps of World War II.

Elementary & Middle School Leadership Conference

March 14, 2025, at Kean University & via Zoom

Join us for this conference to encourage leadership and activism in elementary and middle school students. Amya Meekins, a NJ-based teen author, will be the conference's keynote speaker. This event is for students grades 4-8 and their chaperones

Teaching Holocaust Herstories: Mothers, Daughters, Fighters, Survivors

Thursday, March 6, 2025, 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.

Hour of Need | Rescue in Denmark: Teaching about the Holocaust through Graphic Novels

Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 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.