Holocaust Education
Tannenbaum Chabad House has been a leader in holocaust education and promoting diversity on campus.
Each year, Chabad participates in a Yom HaShoah remembrance ceremony for the Northwestern community. Previous events have included speeches by Holocaust survivors as well as world-renowned Holocaust education and Northwestern Professor of Holocaust Studies Peter Hayes.
Chabad House sponsors additional Holocaust education programming throughout the year. Previous program have included:
- The Last Expression: Art and Auschwitz
A forum to explore the roles, functions, meaning, and making of art in Nazi concentration camps.
- Poets’ Views of the Holocaust: Readings and Interpretations of Poetry on the Holocaust
Featuring Poet David Koenig, Ph.D., Author of Green Whistle
- “A Journey Into Darkness & Light”: The Song of a Holocaust Survivor Follows His Father’s Journey from Despair to Hope
Bernie Farber, Executive Director of the Canadian Jewish Congress, Ontario Region
- The Importance of Nazi-Hunting: How Simon Wiesenthal Tracked Down and Prosecuted Nazi Killers
Judge Gerald C. Bender, Legal Counsel for Simon Wiesenthal
- When Medicine Went Mad: How Did It Start? Is It All Over? Should We Use Nazi Data Today?
Velvl Greene, Ph.D., MPH, Director of Lord Jakobovits Center for Medical Ethics at Ben Gurion University
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