MISSION
STATEMENT

The mission of the Drew University Center for Holocaust Study- as expressed in 1992 when it was founded - was to COMMEMORATE those who perished in the Holocaust and to CELEBRATE those who survived; to EDUCATE upcoming generations to "remember for the future"; and to DEDICATE our energies to ongoing Research and Scholarship. Building on what we have learned from the Holocaust and responding to the imperative of our new logo, "Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tools for thee...," we now extend our study to include those genocides that foreshadowed the Holocaust, those that followed it, and those that continue to erupt.

COMMEMORATION
"I will give them an everlasting name."--Isaiah 56:5

We schedule - as permanent anchors in our programming - an annual November Conference in memory of Kristallnact (Night of Broken Glass) and an annual Yom HaShoah (Day of Remembrance) commemoration. We also offer films, lectures, performances, workshops, and commemorative events dealing with the Holocaust - and additionally with other genocides such as those in Armenia, Cambodia, and Rwanda.

EDUCATION
"Human history becomes more and more
a race between education and catastrophe."
-H.G. Wells

We enrich Drew's undergraduate and graduate course work by bringing notable scholars and speakers to campus, by scheduling annual visits to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and by providing additional resources (books, videos, maps, posters, artifacts) that enhance the study of Holocaust/Genocide. We also serve survivors of the Holocaust by conducting "Leave-a-Legacy Writing Workshops for Survivors." In addition we co-sponsor an International Summer Program bringing German and American students together to explore ongoing implications of the Holocaust. Twice a year we publish a journal entitled Perspectives on the Holocaust describing our activities and upcoming events.

RESEARCH AND SCHOLARSHIP
"We...have the books while the night has nothing but itself."
-Alvin H. Rosenfeld

We continue to develop our archives and scholarly holdings: books, photographs, original documents, and artifacts such as a rare collection of concentration camp currency. We recently commisioned an English translation of a German text dealing with Nazi slave labor camps and plan in the future to publish monographs on selected topics dealing with our special interests and expertise.

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