Center Advisory Board member Professor Victoria Sanford interviewed by Julio Cisneros for PBS Arizona. Guatemala’s genocide left over 200,000 people dead, 500,000 displaced, and 40,000 forced disappearances. The aftermath continues to affect thousands of survivors such as the Cumez family in Comalapa, Chimaltenango. They have suffered for decades waiting to […]
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A coedited volume by Center Advisory Board member Professor Elissa Bemporad, Pogroms: A Documentary History, published by Oxford University Press. From the 1880s to the 1940s, an upsurge of explosive pogroms caused much pain and suffering across the eastern borderlands of Europe. Rioters attacked Jewish property and harmed men, women, and children. […]
The Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity supports the following letter from Scholars at Risk to Secretary of State, Antony Blinken. We post it here to highlight our endorsement. The Honorable Antony J. BlinkenUnited States Secretary of State2201 C Street NWWashington, DC 20520August 17, […]
It is with great sadness that I report the death on July 1, 2021 of founding Center Advisory Board member, Eric Weitz. An outstanding scholar and committed educator, Eric brought wisdom and insight to matters large and small. He was our colleague, and he was our friend. We miss him. […]
A new publication by Center founding Director, Debórah Dwork, is out in a special issue of Holocaust Studies: A Journal of Culture and History. Titled “Buried Words: Sexuality, Violence and Holocaust Testimonies,” this special issue tackles a long-taboo subject. Dwork’s article examines the “silence [that] has shrouded the experience of sexual abuse of […]
As scholars of Jewish Studies, the Holocaust, genocide, and human rights, we study and teach about a wide range of processes and cases of mass atrocities and state violence, and we unequivocally support the right of Israelis and of Palestinians to exist in peace. We also have a responsibility to […]
As I See It: by Center Advisory Board Members Victoria Sanford, Barriozona“Central America Needs a Regional Commission to Prosecute Corruption” https://barriozona.com/central-america-migration-guatemala-corruption/ “Following a virtual bilateral meeting with Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei, Vice President Kamala Harris announced a $310 million humanitarian aid package to Central America and Guatemalan Foreign Minister Pedro […]
As a doctoral student at the GC-CUNY who offers administrative support to the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity, I vehemently condemn Colombia’s governmental actions against civilians who protest measures that harm the most vulnerable in the midst of the COVID19 pandemic. NGOs and activists have reported physical violence, […]
Date: April 22, 2021 Time: Noon – 1:15 PM (Eastern time, U.S. and Canada) Chair and moderator: Dr. Joanna Sliwa, author of Jewish Childhood in Kraków: A Microhistory of the Holocaust, awarded the 2020 Fraenkel Prize Featuring a new wave of scholars: Miranda Brethour, Alicja Podbielska, and Jonathan Zisook. Responses by Profs Barbara Engelking and Jan […]
The Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity (The Graduate Center—City University of New York) protests the pressure exerted by Polish state institutions on scholars of the Holocaust, and the concerted campaign against Professors Barbara Engelking and Jan Grabowski in particular. As scholars, we stand in […]