Workshops
The Cohen Center offers professional development workshops on Holocaust and Genocide Studies education yearly.
Our 2024-2025 workshops:
Oct. 11, 2024 - Cutting Edge Curriculum: Creating Video Essays 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. in-person at the Cohen Center
Dec. 6, 2024 - Approaching Genocide in the Classroom: Case Studies and Seminars 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. in-person at the Cohen Center
Jan. 10, 2025 - Enacting History: Teaching the Holocaust through Theater and Creative Media 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. online
April 11, 2025 - Teaching the Holocaust through Local History and Sources 8:30 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. in person at the Cohen Center
Guidelines for Workshop Facilitators
Part of the mission of the Cohen Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College is to equip educators with information, tools, and resources for teaching Holocaust and genocide studies in ways that are aligned with best practices and emerging scholarship in the field. We seek to empower educators to adapt these resources creatively to meet their own curricular needs, while also cultivating a professional network to which they can turn when questions or issues do arise.
Educational Outreach Workshop Guidelines
White-Niemoller Award
The White-Niemoller Award provides recognition and financial assistance to educators to participate in Cohen Center educational outreach opportunities, including but not limited to: workshops, CCHGS-led travel, and the biennial summer institute. Participants are expected return to their schools and/or communities energized by their experience to become active interpreters of the mission of the Cohen Center in order to build a more responsible future and continue to build communities where respect and justice thrive.
The fellowship honors the late James J. White and Sibylle Sarah Niemoeller von Sell.
Classroom Presentations
Choose from over 20 presentations designed for 90-minute blocks. They can easily be adapted to any classroom format. The topics have also been divided into separate presentations for different level abilities of students.
- NH Board of Education Approves Holocaust and Genocide Education Rules
- Getting Started Tips and Resources
- 14 Facts About Rise of the Nazis and the Holocaust
- IHRA Recommendations for Teaching About the Holocaust
Grubman Teaching Trunk
The Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College invites you to participate in the Grubman Teaching Trunk Program. The Trunk is designed to honor the memory of Simon Grubman, a survivor of the Lodz ghetto and other Nazi camps. The Grubman family has been a longtime supporter of the Cohen Center’s work. Their gifts allowed the Cohen Center to develop the extensive Grubman Children’s book collection now located in the Charles and Judith Hildebrandt Collection in the Mason Library at Keene State College.
