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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
Michele Kuiawa
Senior Program Support Assistant
603-358-2490
mkuiawa@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. At Keene High, he introduced courses in AP European History, Sociology of the Holocaust, and co wrote a two-year course on World Perspectives. He has served as a researcher for Stephen Hooper's documentary film: An American Nurse At War and as historical consultant for David DeArville's documentary film, Telling Their Stories: NH Holocaust Survivors Speak Out, produced in 2004.
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. In 2008 he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Association of Holocaust Organizations (AHO) where he serves as secretary.
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 is a long-term member of the Cohen Center for Holocaust Studies Advisory Board and has served on the Diocese of Manchester's Diocesan Ecumenical Commission for Interfaith Relations.
He has presented at the Holocaust Human Rights Center of Maine's Summer Seminar for Teachers, at the New Hampshire Council for the Social Studies Conference, the Northeast Regional Social Studies Conference, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Granite State College, and Elderhostel at Pilgrim Pines. 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, Holocaust denial, and educating about 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. In 2008, he testified before the NH House of Representatives subcommittee regarding HB 1516FN which examined targeted divestment in Sudan.
Tom has been listed in "Who's Who Among American Teachers" in 1994, 1996, and 1998. In 2008 he was selected for inclusion in "Who's Who Among Executives and Professionals" and for inclusion in the 2008-2009 "Honors Edition" of the registry. In 2009 he was honored by NEA - N.H. with the Champion of Human and Civil Rights Award.
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 in 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.
Michele Kuiawa, Administrative Assistant
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