Remembrance & Witness

A young person who meets a Holocaust survivor is forever changed by that encounter. Yet each year brings fewer such opportunities and gives added urgency to preparing today’s young people to become witnesses to the future. Within a very few decades, there will be no more survivors to testify to the reality of the ghettos, concentration camps, and death marches. Who then will carry their witness to the future?

Rodgers Center Schedule
Lectures and Events, Fall 2011

November 8:
Gerda Weissmann Klein

Loss, Liberation and Love:
One Survivor Remembers

November 11:
An Interfaith Service of
Remebrance for Kristallnacht

 The Sala and Aron Samueli Holocaust Memorial Library
Named in honor of Henry Samueli's parents, both of  whom were Holocaust survivors, and a generous gift  of Henry and Susan Samueli, the Sala and Aron  Samueli Holocaust Memorial Library offers a dedicated  space on the Chapman University campus for the study of the Holocaust and human rights.

The Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education
The Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education, founded in February 2000 through a generous gift from Barry and Phyllis Rodgers,  is dedicated to preparing young people to become witnesses to the future.

The Stern Chair in Holocaust Education
In September 2000, a major gift from Ralph and Sue Stern endowed a faculty position, assuring the inclusion of Holocaust education as part of the university's curriculum for generations to come.  Several courses on the Holocaust are currently taught within Wilkinson College of Letters and Sciences and a minor in Holocaust History is now available.