Upcoming Events
General Assembly Meeting: Heroes of the Holocaust
Thursday, October 9, 2025 at 4:30pm EST in the Human Rights Gallery
Meryl Lettire will guide educators on how to incorporate her Heroes of the Holocaust series into the classroom. The presentation will emphasize how art served as a powerful form of resistance, allowing Holocaust victims to assert their humanity and share their stories. Meryl will also offer ideas for extension projects that will encourage students to explore the role of art in fighting oppression, both in the past and in today’s world.
For more information, please contact: hrc@kean.edu
Kristallnacht Commemoration: Film Screening & Panel Discussion for After: Poetry Destroys Silence (2024)
Thursday, November 13, 2025 at 4:30pm EST in Kean Hall Room 127
AFTER is an exploration of poetry written about the Shoah. The film illuminates human resiliency, the power and courage to forge new lives, and the value of poetry in looking to the past to help create a better future. Starring Melissa Leo, Géza Röhrig, Edward Hirsch, Cornelius Eady, and more.
For more information, please contact: hrc@kean.edu
Film Screening & Q&A: Monument
Thursday, November 20, 2025 at 12:30pm - 1:45pm EST via Zoom
Featuring a talkback with the filmmaker, Michael Turner, grandchild of a Holocaust survivor.
Professional Development hours and Co-Curricular Credits will be provided for educators.
For more information, please contact: hrc@kean.edu
Online Educator Training: Foundations of Resistance
Thursday, November 20, 2025 at 4:30pm EST via Zoom
Teach students how to counter antisemitism with the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation’s new Foundations of Resistance: A Curriculum to Counter Antisemitism for Grades 6-12. Participants will learn how to bring JPEF’s Foundations of Resistance lessons to the classroom. Teach your students why they should and how they can resist antisemitism and hate. Featuring four 50-minute lesson plans with cutting-edge webquests.
For more information, please contact: hrc@kean.edu
Strength in Our Stories: High School Leadership Conference
Friday, November 21, 2025 at 9:30am to 1:30pm EST at Kean University or via Zoom
Join the Holocaust Education & Resource Center for this year's High School Leadership Conference, featuring Carlos Ojeda Jr. This event is for students grades 8-12 and their chaperones.
Joy Prescott Award Application
For more information, please contact: coykends@kean.edu
2025 Murray Pantirer Memorial Scholar Lecture
Tuesday, December 2, 2025 at 7:00pm EST in STEM Auditorium - Kean University
Rachel Deblinger, Ph.D., will be speaking about her book, Saving Our Survivors: How American Jews Learned About the Holocaust. Drawing on previously unexamined archives and postwar cultural materials, Saving Our Survivors invites readers to explore how American Jews constructed meaning out of devastation—and how humanitarian aid became intertwined with public memory. The book also raises larger questions about how historical tragedies are narrated in moments of crisis, and how stories influence the will to act.
For more information, please contact: agoldber@kean.edu