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Cohen Center Hours
September-June
Monday, Wednesday, Friday, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Tuesday and Thursday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m.
Closed Saturday-Sunday
Or call for an appointment: 603-358-2490
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Mailing Address
Cohen Center for Holocaust Studies
Keene State College
229 Main Street
Keene, NH 03435-3201
Faculty
Holocaust Studies Faculty
Staff
Henry "Hank" Knight
Director
603-358-2949
hknight@keene.edu
Thomas White
Coordinator of Educational Outreach
603-358-2746
twhite@keene.edu
Theresa Masiello
Assistant
603-358-2490
tmasiello@keene.edu
 Henry "Hank" Knight
Dr. Knight comes to New Hampshire from Tulsa, Okla., where, over the course of 16 years, he served the Jewish Federation of Tulsa as Director of the Council for Holocaust Education, taught The Christian Problem of the Holocaust at Phillips Theological Seminary, and was University Chaplain and the Applied Associate Professor of Hermeneutic and Holocaust Studies at The University of Tulsa.
A graduate of the University of Alabama (English Literature) and Emory University's Candler School of Theology, Dr. Knight is an ordained Methodist minister who specializes in post-Holocaust Christian theology. His publications include Confessing Christ in a Post-Holocaust World, "The Holy Ground of Hospitality: Good News for a Shoah-Tempered World" in Good News After Auschwitz? Christian Faith Within a Post-Holocaust World, and "Locating God: Placing Ourselves in a Post-Shoah World" in Fire in the Ashes: God, Evil, and the Holocaust.
In 1996, Dr. Knight co-founded the Pastora Goldner (now Stephen S. Weinstein) Holocaust Symposium, an international gathering of Holocaust and genocide scholars that meets biennially at Wroxton College in northern Oxfordshire, England. He cochairs the symposium with Dr. Leonard Grob of Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Thomas M. White
Currently the coordinator of educational outreach for the Cohen Center for Holocaust Studies, Tom is a summa cum laude graduate of Norwich University and received his Master of Arts Teaching History from Keene State College. He taught for 16 years at Keene High School before receiving a Fellowship to create his current position. He has served as a researcher for Stephen Hooper's documentary film: An American Nurse At War, introduced AP European History and Sociology of the Holocaust to Keene High, and co wrote a two-year course on World Perspectives.
While at Keene High School, Tom was the co-founder and director of the Keene High School Soviet Union Tour, the Student Council Advisor, keynote speaker for the NHASC Fall Convention in Waterville Valley in 1998, and has been listed in "Who's Who Among American Teachers" in 1994, 1996, and 1998.
He was selected to attend the Arthur and Rochelle Belfer National Conference for Educators at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in July 1995, and The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous Summer Institute for Teachers (Alfred Lerner Fellowship Program) in 2002, and was the keynote speaker for Greater Concord Interfaith Council Yom HaShoah Remembrance in 2003. In 2007 he was selected to attend the International Winter Seminar for Educators at Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority of Israel.
He served as a historical consultant for the documentary film, Telling Their Stories: NH Holocaust Survivors Speak Out, produced in 2004. He also participates in the Holocaust Educational Foundation "Lessons and Legacies" conferences, the Scholars' Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches (where he was a presenter of "Preserving Memory: Survivors on Film" in 2005), and the Association of Holocaust Organizations (AHO) serving on the planning committee in 2007. He has also presented at the Holocaust Human Rights Center of Maine's Summer Seminar for Teachers, at the New Hampshire Council for the Social Studies Conference, and the Northeast Regional Social Studies Conference. He organizes and is a daily presenter at the Cohen Center for Holocaust Studies' Biennial Summer Institute for Teachers. Much of his work focuses on confronting antisemitism and about activism in current issues of genocide such as Darfur. In 2007 he spoke about the need for urgent action in Darfur at UNH with Elizabeth Edwards and former U.S. Marine and A.U. observer Brian Steidle.
He is a long-term member of the Cohen Center for Holocaust Studies Advisory Board and currently serves on the Diocese of Manchester's Diocesan Ecumenical Commission for Interfaith Relations.
In his position he is responsible for organizing Holocaust educational programs with local schools; developing educational materials for use by schools; assisting teachers and school districts with curriculum development; training teachers in institutes and an annual workshop series; visiting schools; speaking to civic and community groups; maintaining the Center's website; and is the coordinator of the CCHS listserv for teachers.
He has served as chairman of the Cohen Center's Kristallnacht Remembrance Committee since 2002. He has spoken extensively throughout New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, and Maine.
Tom lives in Keene with his wife, Jen, and their two sons, Robin and Connor.
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