Upcoming Events
Yom HaShoah Community Commemoration - Educators Workshop
Monday, April 13, 2026, from 5:00pm - 8:30pm EST at the STEM Building Kean University
Please join us for dinner and thoughtful conversation, along with resources to support Holocaust education. Attendees will receive a complimentary book. The evening will continue with the 7:00pm Yom HaShoah Community Commemoration.
For more information, please contact: hrc@kean.edu
Yom HaShoah Community Commemoration
Monday, April 13, 2026, at 7:00pm EST at the STEM Auditorium, Kean University
Join us for an evening of remembrance at our Yom HaShoah Community Commemoration. The event will feature a performance by Anne Frank Center USA, Plenty of Courage, as well as student readings and a candle lighting ceremony in memory of the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
For more information, please contact: hrc@kean.edu
General Assembly Meeting
Tuesday, April 21, 2026 at 4:30 PM EST via Zoom
Join the Council on Global Education and Citizenship at our upcoming April General Assembly Meeting. This meeting will feature guest speaker Liz Kleinrock, a Korean-American, queer, Jewish, antibias and antiracist author, educator of both children and adults, and creates curriculum for K-12 students, specializing in designing inquiry based units of study.
For more information, please contact: sarah.coykendall@kean.edu
Teaching the Holocaust Using the Humanities:
Integrating Photographs, Literature, Art, and Poetry to Tell the Human Story
Thursday, April 23 at 4:00 PM EST via Zoom
Holocaust and genocide education continues to be a topic of both great importance and great hesitation in American classrooms. This session will help to highlight the importance of these histories while helping educators overcome some of their personal doubts in addressing this content effectively. The session will center around the pedagogical principles of Echoes & Reflections while simultaneously demonstrating classroom-ready resources appropriate for secondary classrooms nationwide. Educators will gain exposure through experiential activities with these classroom-ready resources while also creating connections with an experienced classroom educator/facilitator who will assist in fostering confidence and the ability to seek out answers in one’s quest to deepen their pedagogical and content-based practices.
For more information, please contact: hrc@kean.edu
Spaces of Treblinka: A Book Talk with Dr. Jacob Flaws
Thursday, April 23, 2026 at 4:30pm EST at New Brunswick Theological Seminary
Join New Brunswick Theological Seminary (NBTS) for a book talk with Dr. Jacob Flaws, Assistant Professor of History at Kean University, on his award-winning book Spaces of Treblinka. A recipient of the 2025 Oskar Halecki Award and a finalist for the 2025 Sybil Halpern Milton Memorial Book Prize, the book challenges the idea of Treblinka as an isolated site, revealing a broader network of witnesses and how widely its realities were known.
This event is presented in partnership with the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life at Rutgers University. Attend in person or online.
Varian Fry: The Audacious American Journalist Who Saved Europe's Artists from the Nazis
Tuesday, April 28, 2026 at 12:30pm EST at Kupferberg Holocaust Center, Queensborough Community College
In this presentation, novelist and professor Julie Orringer will take you on a virtual journey to wartime Marseille and show you how one daring American achieved the impossible: the saving of more than two thousand artists, including Marc Chagall, Max Ernst, André Breton, Hannah Arendt, and many others.
For more information, please contact: hrc@kean.edu
But I Live Conversation with Editor Charlotte Schallié
Monday, May 4th, 2026, at 7:00pm EST via Zoom
Join the Holocaust Resource Center for our upcoming conversation on But I Live, with editor Charlotte Schallié. But I Live shares the stories of three Holocaust survivors through illustrations. Co-sponsored with the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, Alabama Holocaust Education Center, and the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center.
For more information, please contact: hrc@kean.edu