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In
June 2008, students and faculty from the Holocaust and Genocide Studies
program traveled to Berlin to visit the Jewish Museum, the Haus der Wannsee
Konferenz, and the Sachsenhausen Memorial. This field study followed on
the heels of our 2007 journey, which took us to Holocaust sites in
Thessaloniki, Greece, and Krakow, Poland.
.Learn more about the history
of the Jews of Thessaloniki from this article by
Dr. Paul Hagouel, an educator from the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki.
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West
Chester University has been a pioneer in Holocaust Studies since 1978 when
an undergraduate course on the Holocaust was first offered. The
program now includes a Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, a
certification program, an undergraduate minor, a regional education center,
and a library collection.
The
demand for Holocaust and Genocide Studies has grown over the past 20 years.
Five states are now mandating that the subject be taught in the schools,
and seven states -- including Pennsylvania -- are recommending inclusion in
school curricula. It is expected that more states will institute such
requirements. Thus, teachers and librarians are seeking more information
and instruction. Furthermore, the end of the 20th century saw an explosion
of new scholarship and new perspectives on the Holocaust. This scholarship
is reinforced by the desire of survivors and those who lived through WWII
to educate future generations and to bear witness to the fact that the
Holocaust did happen.
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Philips Memorial Hall
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Subsequent
episodes of genocide in the modern world generate a continuing need for
education and a demand for teaching resources. As a public, comprehensive
university that has been training teachers for more than a century, West
Chester University is able to provide excellent scholarly and pedagogical
resources to students, teachers, and the community.
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