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• Posted A Nazi in our Midst? to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  A Nazi in our midst? Pursuit of justice must persistArticle by Alejandro Baer June 17, 2013 Star Tribune If he is connected with war crimes, he must be held accountable. Until Friday, 94-year-old Michael Karkoc was only an immigrant living...
• Posted Univeristy professor on possible deportation for alleged Nazi commander to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  Alleged Nazi commander living in Minneapolis could face deportation 06-17-2013...
• Posted Top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit found in Minnesota to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  Commander in SS-led unit living in US 6-14-2013...
• Posted Cambodia genocide denial law to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  Cambodia's Khmer Rouge denial law passed without debate - report 06-12-2013...
• Posted New book about Hollywood's relationship to Hitler to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  Hollywood's Creepy Love Affair With Adolf Hitler, in Explosive New Detail 06-10-2013...
• Posted 400 pages of the lost diary of Alfred Rosenberg, aid to Hitler found to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  U.S. Government Uncovers Long-Lost Diary of Top Nazi Leader 6-09-2013...
• Posted Representing Genocide Videos on CHGS YouTube Channel to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  On April 5th and 6th, the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, hosted the symposium, Representing Genocide: Media, Law and Scholarship, to explore the intersections between journalistic, judicial and social scientific depictions of atrocities, with a focus on cases of...
• Posted Two new Holocaust films streaming on Netflix to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  The critically acclaimed films The Flat (2011) and Hitler's Children (2011) are now streaming on Netflix. The Flat is a documentary film about director Arnon Goldfinger's 98-year-old grandmother who lived in Israel after emigrating from Berlin in the 1930's. After...
• Posted CHGS Summer Institute for Secondary Educators to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  The Holocaust in European Memory July 8-11, 2013 Room 710 Social Sciences 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Register here. Registration deadline: June 24, 2013 In this workshop we will examine questions such as how the Nazi murder of European Jews...
• Posted Guatemala's top court throws out the conviction of former military leader Efrain Rios Montt to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  Guatemala annuls Rios Montt's genocide conviction 5-21-2013...
• Posted Main architect of Argentina's "Dirty War" dies to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  Argentina ex-military leader Jorge Rafael Videla dies 5-17-2013...
• Posted Op/Ed on Guatemalan genocide conviction to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  Victory in Guatemala? Not Yet By VICTORIA SANFORD 5-13-2013...
• Posted Efraín Ríos Montt convicted of genocide to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  Former Guatemalan dictator convicted of genocide and jailed for 80 years 05-10-2013...
• Posted World Jewish Congress calls for a ban of public Holocaust Denial to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  WJC approves resolution calling for ban of public Holocaust denial 5-7-2013...
• Posted Debating the depiction of a country's historic past to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  Bulgarian request for street name in D.C. stirs Holocaust debate 5-7-2013...
• Posted Scripting the Shoah presented by Aomar Boum now Available to View on line to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  On April 11, 2013 Professor Aomar Boum presented an overview of his research dealing with the Holocaust in Moroccan official and public discourses. The recording of this presentation is now available for viewing on the CHGS YouTube channel. You can...
• Posted Eric Harkleroad PhD Candidate in Anthropology to Present at CHGS Workshop to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  Workshop for Graduate Students and Faculty Holocaust, Genocide and Mass Violence Studies Thursday, May 9 3:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. 710 Social Sciences Eric Harkleroad will present "Warfare and Society: Archaeology's Contribution to the Discussion." Eric's research focuses on situating...
• Posted New Publication of Holocaust Testimony by Minnesota Survivor Translated 70 Years Later by his Daughter to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  Sky Tinged Red is the chronicle of Isaia Eiger's two years as a prisoner in Auschwitz- Birkenau. Eiger immediately wrote of his experiences in the camp shortly after the war. The book focuses on his experiences and his role in...
• Posted Whitney Taylor and Katie Menke Receive Human Rights Awards to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  The Human Rights Program and the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies congratulate Whitney Taylor and Katie Menke as the recipients of the 3rd annual human rights awards. Taylor is the recipient of the Sullivan Ballou award, and Menke...
• Posted Holocaust and Genocide Courses Being Offered for Summer and Fall to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  Registration for University of Minnesota's summer and fall semester is now open with a number of courses that fall within the Center's interdisciplinary approach to the study of the Holocaust and genocide. Please register for the University of Minnesota Course...
• Posted Wahutu Siguru awarded Badzin Fellowship to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and the Department of History, are pleased to announce the Bernard and Fern Badzin Graduate Fellowship in Holocaust and Genocide Studies has been awarded to Wahuta Siguru. Siguru's research interests are in the...
• Posted Trial of former Guatemalan dictator at a standstill to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  Guatemalan court begins to untangle genocide trial standstill 4-24-2013...
• Posted Former Auschwitz guard identified to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  Former Auschwitz Nazi guard Hans Lipschis found in Germany 4-24-2013...
• Posted Alejandro Baer to Present at USHMM Symposium to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  Alejandro Baer, CHGS will participate in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Symposium, Sephardic Jewry and the Holocaust: The Future of the Field April 28-30, 2013 University of Washington, Seattle The symposium is part of the year long commemoration of...
• Posted Special Screening The Heart of a Mother: Susette's Story to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  Sunday April 28th, 6:30 p.m. Sabes Jewish Community Center $5 donation requested. Dessert reception to follow in honor of: Susette Liepmannssohn Freund Presented by the Children of Holocaust Survivors in Minnesota (CHAIM) The Heart of a Mother: Susette's Story: A...
• Posted Twin Cities showing of new Holocaust film No Place on Earth to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  April 26th - May 2nd Landmark's Edina Cinema 3911 West 50th Street - Edina, MN No Place on Earth In 1996, Chris Nicola, an ex-NYC cop and world-renowned cave explorer, makes a discovery deep underground in the largest cave system...
• Posted Hiromi Mizuno professor in the Department of History to present at next CHGS workshop to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  Workshop for Graduate Students and Faculty Holocaust, Genocide and Mass Violence Studies Thursday, April 25: 3:30-5:00 p.m. 710 Social Sciences "When Crimes Cannot Be Punished: the Comfort Women Issue and International Human Rights Law" Hiromi Mizuno, Associate Professor, Department of...
• Posted 98th Anniversary Commemoration of the Armenian Genocide to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  Wednesday, April 24 7:00 p.m. St. Sahag Armenian Church The Armenian Cultural Organization of Minnesota in conjunction with St. Sahag Armenian Church will be observing the 98th anniversary commemoration of the Genocide. This year's theme is one of renewal ("the...
• Posted Poland faces up to a complicated past in a new film to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  In the Polish Aftermath 4-17-2013...
• Posted Is how Arabs view the Holocaust changing? to CLA: Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
  Is the way Arabs perceive the Holocaust changing? 4-8-2013...