Welcome to the Sara & Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center at Stockton University

“South Jersey Holocaust Survivor Digital Archive and Exhibition”

We continue to work on the “South Jersey Holocaust Survivor Digital Archive and Exhibition.” Pictured above on a Zoom call (left to right): Irvin Moreno-Rodriguez, Dr. Michael Hayse, Morgan Everman, Heather Perez, and Diana Burke. Not pictured: Gail Rosenthal

Rally for Justice

On September 29th, the Unified Black Students Society (UBSS) led a “Rally for Justice #SayTheir Names,” Hannah Gettings, a Stockton student currently earning the minor in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, was in the crowd supporting her fellow Ospreys during the rally.

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We are committed to teach about the history of the past to make a better future. Now more than ever, this is important. As a supporter of the Sara & Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center at Stockton University, we thank you for the continued support. Click here to view a (three minute) thank you video.

Video Recordings Now Available Online

The video recordings of the 3rd Annual Wally and Lutz Hammerschlag Summer Educator Seminar - live from Yad Vashem (Jerusalem) are now available on our website. The seminar focused on teaching about the Holocaust in the age of digital learning using art, photography, literature, and film.

Resources for Online Learning

Now available: View the newest online video lecture by Dr. Carol Rittner, "The Courage to Care."

For Father's Day 2020, we are sharing stories and recipes of some of our local Holocaust survivors.

Supporting Our Community During Difficult Times: Messages from the Stockton University Community 2020

Holocaust Resource Center Receives 7 Telly© Awards for the film, "There Were Good People...Doing Extraordinary Deeds: Leo Ullman's Story"

For Mother’s Day 2020, we are sharing stories and recipes of some of our local Holocaust survivors.

Resources for Online Learning

Now available: View the newest online video lecture by Dr. Michael Berenbaum, "Depending Upon Each Other In A Time of Choiceless Choices."

Holocaust Center Launches Interactive Biography

Schools invited to learn from New Jersey Holocaust survivor.

"The Extraordinary Heroism of Ordinary People: The Rescue of One Jewish Family in the Netherlands"

"The Extraordinary Heroism of Ordinary People: The Rescue of One Jewish Family in the Netherlands" is an interactive exhibition that follows the life stories of Holocaust survivors who were hidden in Amsterdam during World War II, Emily and Frank Ullman and their son, Leo.

"My Father: One of the Original Tuskegee Airmen of WWII"

In honor of Black History Month, Thomas A. Mayfield shared his father's life story with the Stockton community. Mayfield's father, Lt. Col. Thomas H. Mayfield was one of the original Tuskegee Airmen of World War II.

"Remembering the Holocaust and Emigration: The Moritz and Hammerschlag Families" Exhibit

At the exhibit, Lennard Hammerschlag (left) listens to students read his mother’s remembrances of Kristallnacht.

Stockton Donates Railroad Tracks to Philadelphia's Horwitz-Wasserman Holocaust Memorial Plaza

Our Center's railroad tracks were donated for use in the Holocaust Memorial Plaza in Philadelphia, PA.

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                               Copyright © Jewish Foundation for the Righteous

The Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center is a Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR) Holocaust Center of Excellence. The JFR Holocaust Centers of Excellence Program was established to honor centers who have made an extraordinary commitment to teach the Holocaust in their communities. The Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center faculty, staff, and supporters were honored to be chosen as a JFR Holocaust Center of Excellence. For more information about the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, please visit: www.jfr.org

The Sara & Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center at Stockton University,

is currently open and located on the second floor of the Stockton University Library. The center is open from Monday through Thursday, 8:30 AM to 6:00 PM and Fridays from 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM.

Because of COVID-19 we are open but not allowing foot traffic through the Holocaust Resource Center.

If you have any questions or need to speak with or see someone in the Holocaust Resource Center for research purposes or other needs, please call 609-652-4699 or email Gail.Rosenthal@stockton.edu

Did you know?

Stockton University offers a Master of Arts in Holocaust & Genocide Studies (MAHG) as well as a minor in Holocast and Genocide Studies for undergraduate students. Stockton Univeristy also offers a Graduate Certificate in Genocide Prevention (GPC).

Click here for the Fall 2020 semester schedule of courses

Monday, November 9, 2020

7:00 pm (EST)

THE ANNUAL IDA E KING MEMORIAL LECTURE
Remembering Kristallnacht 82 Years Ago
(November 9 – 10, 1938)

Presented by Dr. Dienke Hondius

Ida E King Distinguished Visiting Professor of
Holocaust Studies - Spring 2020

“HIDING PLACES DURING THE HOLOCAUST:
NETWORKS OF SOLIDARITY UNCOVERED”

This illustrated lecture will show the latest findings of the “Mapping Hiding Places Research Project,” including Stockton University student research. This historical project presents findings on where and how Jews in Nazi-occupied Europe found hiding places. All can share and contribute knowledge about this topic in Holocaust Studies.

Thursday, October 29, 2020

4:00 - 5:45 pm (EDT)

Film screening: There Were Good People...Doing Extraordinary Deeds

Leo Ullman's Story

Stockton Communication Studies Speaker Spotlight 2020, in cooperation with the Stockton History club and Historical Studies program presents a film screening of There Were Good People...Doing Extraordinary Deeds: Leo Ullman's Story. After the film, Communication Studies Teaching Specialist Toby Rosenthal will lead a panel discussion with Holocaust Survivor, Leo Ullman, Coordinator of the Historical Studies program and the Director of the Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center. 

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

4:30 - 5:45 pm (EDT)

Zoom Presentation by Professor Jane Denny and

Irvin Moreno-Rodriguez

"Hoy Por Ti, Manana Por Mi (Today For You, Tomorrow For Me): Mexico During & After World War II"

This presentation will focus on the role of Mexico before and after World
War II and the story of Gilberto Bosques Saldivar (1892-1995), who served as
the Mexican Consul General in Marseille, France between 1939 and 1943. As
the Consul General, Bosques issued tens of thousands of visas for Spanish
and Jewish refugees who wanted to escape from Nazi-occupied Europe.

Tuesday, October 6, 2020

4:30 - 5:45 pm

Zoom Lecture by Dr. Jonathan Wiesen

"From Birmingham to Berlin: Racial Terror Lynching and Public Violence in the United States and Nazi Germany"

Dr. Jonathan Wiesen is Author of West German Industry and the Challenge of the Nazi Past, 1945-1955 (2001) and Creating the Nazi Marketplace: Commerce and Consumption in the Third Reich (2011) and he is the coeditor of Selling Modernity: Advertising in Twentieth Century Germany (2007). Questions: 609-652-4699. 

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Thursday, September 26, 2019

4:30 - 5:45 pm

MAHG Student-Faculty Coffee Break

All Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (MAHG) program faculty, staff, and students are invited to attend a coffee break in the Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center classroom on Thursday, September 26, 2019, at 4:30 pm. Welcome the new semester with a cup of coffee and good company! The coffee break is sponsored by the Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (MAHG) Society. Questions: 609-652-4699

Monday, August 17th - Thursday, August 20, 2020

3rd Annual Wally and Lutz Hammerschlag Summer Educator Seminar 

On Monday, August 17th - Thursday, August 20, 2020, Yad Vashem, The Sam Azeez Museum of Woodbine Heritage, the Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center at Stockton University, and Echoes & Reflections will present the 3rd Annual Wally and Lutz Hammerschlag Summer Educator Seminar, "In the Age of Digital Learning: Teaching about the Holocaust through Art, Photograhy, Literature, Film, and more." The cost is free for educators. This seminar will teach about the history of the Holocaust by using the arts to connect with the past to make a better future for all. Strategies and resources will be shared.

Sunday, June 21, 2020

Father's Day 2020 Recipes from Holocaust Survivors Settled in South Jersey Communities in Atlantic and Cape May Counties

As we celebrate Father’s Day, we can lovingly look back and remember our dads (sometimes moms) preparing special recipes that they brought from their childhoods into their own kitchens. After WWII, as Holocaust survivors settled in South Jersey communities in Atlantic and Cape May Counties, some of these recipes were brought from Europe into their kitchens in South Jersey. For Father’s Day 2020, the staff of the Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center at Stockton University are sharing stories and recipes of some of our local Holocaust survivors.

Sunday, June 14, 2020

"We Are Here: A Celebration of Resilience, Resistance, and Hope"

The Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, National Yiddish Theatre Folksbiene, Sing for Hope, and Lang Lang International Music Foundation will come together to present “We Are Here: A Celebration of Resilience, Resistance, and Hope.” This special livestreamed concert event—which will be presented by a network of more than 100 organizations across the United States and world—commemorates the 75th anniversary of the end of World War II and the 77th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, even as it speaks to the challenges of the current moment. The Sara & Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center is proud to be a distribution partner for this event! People from more than 26 states and countries, including Belarus, Canada, France, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Netherlands, Poland and South Africa will be coming together to watch the 90-minute event. A recording of this event is still available at www.wearehere.live.

Friday, June 12, 2020

Remembering Anne Frank on her Birthday

Today would have been Anne Frank's 91st birthday. In February 2019, Stockton University’s Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center hosted its 36th Annual Holocaust Awareness Program. The program was an exhibit, “Anne Frank: A History for Today” created by the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Netherlands and sponsored in North America by the Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect. It was funded by the Anne Frank Foundation in Basel, Switzerland, which provided a grant to cover the cost of the docent training.

Monday, May 11, 2020

Holocaust & Genocide Studies Dual High School Credit End-of-Year Wrap-up Meeting

Thursday, April 23, 2020

Online Lecture and Zoom session: "Self-Help During the Armenian Genocide: Recovering Refugee Voices," presented by post-doctoral Fellow in Holocaust and Genocide studies at Stockton University, Dr. Asya Darbinyan

In commemoration of the 105th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program, Hughes Center for Public Policy, and Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center present an evening of Armenian culture and remembrance. Dr. Asya Darbinyan, Post-Doctoral Fellow of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Stockton University, will present a lecture entitled “Self-Help during the Armenian Genocide: Recovering Refugee Voices.”

The lecture will be available for viewing starting at 10:00 am on Tuesday, April 21, 2020. Watch here, or join us on Facebook or YouTube to watch.