Tag Archive for Holocaust

Nine undergraduates awarded Steinbrecher Fellowships to support creative projects on campus and abroad

Nine Clark University undergraduate students were recently awarded Steinbrecher Fellowships to support their pursuit of original ideas, creative research, and community service projects this summer and during the 2015-2016 academic year. Information about the students and their projects follows: Oyut Amarjargal ’17, of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, will conduct research and complete a community service project this…

Clark to host international symposium on education about Holocaust and genocide, April 11-13

Holocaust programs have become commonplace in many middle and high school curricula across the U.S. A trend toward deploying the Holocaust to convey moral instruction about present day prejudices, human rights abuses, and current genocides has emerged in recent years. These approaches and other common pedagogical practices call for critical review. For this reason, Clark…

Strassler Center event casts new light on iconic Vishniac photos

Sometime in 2012, the International Center of Photography in New York will unveil an exhibit of photographs by Roman Vishniac, a world famous photographer whose prolific published works became iconic images of Jewish shtetl life in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust. But the discovery of a vast trove of previously unpublished photographs has revealed more…

Strassler Center offers access to Shoah Foundation visual archives

Clark University among 25 institutions worldwide linked to 52,000 Holocaust testimonies Clark University, through its Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, is among 25 institutions worldwide with access to the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation Institute’s Visual History Archive, founded in 1994 by Steven Spielberg to collect and preserve the testimonies of survivors…