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Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University

 

Advancing Holocaust education at institutions of higher learning around the world.

Summer 2024 Newsletter

HEFNU Newsletter

Read our Summer 2024 Newsletter, featuring Alice Weinreb, Ştefan Cristian Ionescu, Samuel Clowes Huneke, and Christin Zühlke

HEFNU Newsletter

Institutes on the Holocaust and Jewish Civilization

Learn more about our Summer Institute and Regional Institutes.

 

HEFNU Institutes

Invite an Expert!

Connect with over 70 distinguished Holocaust scholars from an array of disciplines, who will prepare a tailor-made virtual lecture or classroom session in their area of expertise.
Virtual Speakers Bureau

Mission

HEFNU's mission is to advance Holocaust education at institutions of higher learning around the world. To achieve this mission, HEFNU aims to develop professors qualified to teach Holocaust courses, grow the number of colleges and universities that offer Holocaust courses, and thereby increase the number of students who study the Holocaust.
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Spotlight

 

Volume IV in the Lessons and Legacies Series, Lessons and Legacies XV: The Holocaust; Global Perspectives, National Narratives, Local Contexts (2024), edited by Erin McGlothlin (Washington University in St. Louis) and Avinoam Patt (NYU), is available from Northwestern University Press.

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Events

 

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News

 
HEFNU Director, Sarah Cushman, mentioned in Boston Globe Magazine
HEFNU Co-Sponsored Virtual Roundtable: The Weaponization of History and the Uses of Antisemitism in Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine
HEFNU Statement on the Removal of "Maus" from the Curriculum in McMinn County, Tennessee
HEFNU Statement on Youngstown
HEFNU Condemns Russia’s Military Invasion of Ukraine

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