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WWU's Ray Wolpow Institute to host international Holocaust symposium, public lecture 2024-04-05
WWU’s Ray Wolpow Institute to host international symposium on Holocaust literature 2023-09-25
WWU saw several bias incidents this school year. Now the campus hosts a Holocaust Museum event

Western Washington University will host a prestigious annual discussion of antisemitism amid a national spike in hate against Jews and a school year that has seen bigotry against several minority groups on campus. Focus of the event is how the Nazi Party forced schools to teach its racist…

2023-03-29
It is not too late for American Democracy — yet

Democracy is under attack, in countries around the globe and in the United States. As scholars and directors of Holocaust and genocide study centers at American universities, who were born and raised in East and West Germany after 1945, we are watching the deliberate dismantling of democracy in…

2020-09-30
Ray Wolpow Institute to present film, webinar on Franco dictatorship 2020-09-16
WWU to honor Holocaust survivor with genocide studies minor

Students at Western Washington University can minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies with a new program being offered starting this fall quarter, the university announced Wednesday, Sept. 4.

At a…

2019-09-05
Holocaust survivor Noémi Ban, community educator and outspoken fixture on Western’s campus for years, dies at age 96 2019-06-10
WWU and Northwestern University Partner for ‘Teaching the Holocaust in the Global Age’ May 10-12 2019-04-16
WWU’s Ray Wolpow Institute to Host ‘Teaching the Holocaust 101’ Oct. 18 2018-09-25
Western's Sandra Alfers honored with statewide faculty citizenship award 2018-06-12
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