Collections at the HRC
Josiah E. DuBois Jr. Collection
The Holocaust Resource Center of Kean University was honored to receive the Josiah E. DuBois Jr. collection recently. DuBois, originally of Camden, NJ, served as the General Counsel of the War Refugee Board, the agency created by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1944 to rescue and provide relief for Jews and persecuted minorities during the Holocaust. DuBois later served as the chief prosecutor at the I.G. Farben Trial, one of the Nuremberg war crimes trials in postwar Germany. His papers, which include original handwritten drafts and notes related to the creation of the War Refugee Board, debates related to Allied treatment of postwar Germany, transcripts of Nuremberg proceedings, and drafts of DuBois’s memoir, will be an important source for scholars of the Holocaust and the Nuremberg trials. A smaller collection of DuBois’s papers are housed at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
The collection processing is currently underway. Please stay tuned for HRC announcements regarding the process of this collection.
If you have any questions about the HRC collection, please reach out to hrc@kean.edu
Special Collection
The Holocaust Resource Center of Kean University is a regional host venue for Yale University’s Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies.
Classroom Book Sets at the HRC
Since 2018, the Holocaust Resource Center has reaffirmed its commitment to equity in education by providing materials for students free of charge. Classroom book sets of memoirs, diaries, and historical non-fiction are available for a four-week loan period free of charge to NJ schools. Each set contains 30 copies of the book and lesson plans.
If interested in the HRC’s classroom book sets, please reach out to hrc@kean.edu
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Cara Thapa, an instructor in our Post-Bacc program.
Using "Elly: My True Story of the Holocaust" as a class read-aloud was an amazing and eye-opening experience for my fifth graders. My students already had background knowledge about the Holocaust, but to read a little girl's account was extremely impactul for them and sparked many important conversations. I am very grateful for resources, such as this book, that support educators with teaching a very difficult, but very necessary topic.