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MCC Libraries' Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Resource Center

Are you researching a human rights topic, such as the rise of hate groups? Or interested in  learning about Jewish refugees during the Holocaust?

LeRoy V. Good Library houses a special collection of materials on these topics and many more in the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Resource Center (HGHRC). The HGHRC is affiliated with the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project of MCC. Established in 1990, the Project is MCC's unique organization for telling the stories of the Holocaust and other genocides while transforming individuals to become advocates for human rights.

The HGHRC has a large collection of books and DVDs that can be checked out by anyone in the MCC community. As the subject matter touches upon everything from history, human rights, literature, and political topics to the geography of the Holocaust and modern genocides, it is a collection useful to a myriad of classes and subjects studied at MCC. You will also find titles written by or supporting the speakers which the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Project brings to campus throughout the year, such as the upcoming visit by Christian Picciolini on December 5. The HGHRC even has a sizable collection of large-scale maps focused on countries with a history of genocide, such as Rwanda and Cambodia.

Also displayed in the HGHRC are some of the portraits comprising the Survivor Photo Essay Series, "I Told You .... Now Tell the World." The portraits and the accompanying short biographies detail the vital history of Holocaust Survivors who relocated to Rochester after the war. And outside of the HGHRC's entrance hang some of the famous photographs taken by Roman Vishniac of Jewish culture in Central and Eastern Europe before the Holocaust.

Visit the Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Center during library hours in the LeRoy V. Good Library on the Brighton campus, Room 2-440. Stop at the Welcome Desk on the main floor to check out a key for the HGHRC and experience all this special collection offers.

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Lori Annesi
Library
11/11/2022