Student Tribune
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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Annesi, Lori
Library
11/11/2022