Curated by Alexis Herr

Is Genocide Predictable? Researchers Say Absolutely

NPR, December 20, 2018
The U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Dartmouth University created a model to predict genocide and are now putting it to use. Read Article>

Son of local Rabbi Helps Genocide Orphans in Rwanda

J– The Jewish News of Northern California, December 28, 2018
Having spent a year volunteering at Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village in Rwanda, a Jewish organization creating educational opportunities for orphans of the Rwandan Genocide, Bay Area native Noah Wolf-Prusan reflects on his life changing experience. Read Article>

Clark Historian Launches Digital Archive Documenting Armenian Genocide

Telegram – Worcester, MA, December 5, 2018
To encourage and foster greater research on the Armenian Genocide, Clark University professor Taner Akcam has launched the Krikor Guerguerian Archive, which comprises thousands of original Ottoman documents and previously unpublished writings. Read Article>

Simcha Rotem, Jewish Resistance Fighter and Holocaust Survivor, dies at 94

The Washington Post, December 24, 2018
The last of the known Jewish fighters from the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazis has died, but his legacy lives on. Read Article>