Cohen Center Offering A 2025 Study Tour; Nuremberg, Strasbourg, The Hague On Itinerary
The Cohen Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Keene State College offers a unique learning and travel opportunity with its 2025 Study Tour: International Human Rights in the Wake of the Holocaust, March 13-22, 2025.
Travel as part of a group to Nuremberg, Strasbourg, and The Hague, and trace the history of international courts and systems of cooperative justice. Learn more about how the legacy of the Holocaust led to innovations and approaches to preventing and prosecuting atrocities.
The trip is available to local educators, community members, elected officials, alumni, and Keene State faculty and staff. The cost is $5,000 for shared accommodations and $5,750 for a single room. Those rates are available through August 15 only.
Enrollment has begun and space is limited. To learn more, send an email of interest to cohencenter@keene.edu.
“The study tour program facilitates opportunities for experiential learning abroad alongside faculty experts — experiences that are not commonly available to community members, alumni, or others,” says Kate DeConinck, director of the Center. “Participants will visit important sites such as the European Court of Human Rights while also experiencing food, culture, and the arts in places like Strasbourg and Amsterdam.”
In Nuremberg, visitors will learn how the International Military Tribunal following WWII created the basis for international criminal law. A stop at the Strasbourg European Court of Human Rights, which interprets the European Convention on Human Rights, is next on the itinerary. The trip concludes at The Hague, a city in the province of South Holland, and a visit to the International Criminal Court of the United Nations, the first and only permanent international court with jurisdiction to prosecute individuals for international crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and crimes of aggression.
Along the way, tour-goers will visit historical and cultural sites, including Nazi Kongresshalle, Strasbourg Cathedral, Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp, Memorial Alsace Moselle, and Amsterdam, regarded as one of the world’s most vibrant cities and home to the Netherlands’ National Holocaust Museum.
A group travel director will assist with trip logistics, DeConinck said, and the Cohen Center will coordinate optional pre-departure educational opportunities such as special lectures and a book group, based on the group’s interests.
Added DeConinck, “This trip is relevant to so many global situations. Past study-tour offerings have shown that these educational travel experiences have an extremely high impact on those who participate and for educators, for their classrooms and teaching.”
