holocaust

Carla Peperzak, who helped Jews during World War II, and Patricia Whitefoot, an advocate for Indigenous women, will be honored at events later this year.

More than 400 books about the Holocaust have been donated to the WSU Libraries by an alumnus, who built his collection over the course of a half century.

By J. Adrian Aumen, College of Arts & Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – Spirited music by a young Jewish composer who died at Auschwitz in 1944 was performed this year for the first time thanks to the research and efforts of Troy Bennefield, Washington State University assistant professor of music and director of the WSU Cougar […]

By C. Brandon Chapman, College of Education PULLMAN, Wash. – Two representatives from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum will train education students to teach about genocide on March 8 at Washington State University.

PULLMAN – The 2008 Week of Remembrance at WSU March 2-5 will examine the motivations and character of those who risk life and limb to save others in peril, focusing on those who experienced the Holocaust of World War II. The four-day program, “Rescue and Rescuers in the Holocaust,” will feature films, discussions, presentations by […]

(Photo: Emaciated Jewish survivors, who had been confined to the infirmary barracks at Ebensee, are gathered outside on the day after liberation. The survivor at center-left holding his metal name tag is Joachim Friedner, a twenty-one year-old Polish Jew from Krakow. — May 7, 1945) Washington State University will welcome John K. Roth, founding director […]

PULLMAN — C. Richard King, an associate professor in Washington State University’s Department of Comparative Ethics Studies, was one of 19 scholars who participated this month in the 2005 Silberman Seminar for University Faculty, sponsored by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies in Washington, D.C. The 2005 Silberman Seminar was designed for […]

Washington State University has planned “A Week of Remembrance” March 7-10 in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Nazi death and concentration camps in Europe following World War II.“We hope to enable WSU students and members of the campus and town communities to explore the experience, moral dilemmas and legacies of the […]