I am proud to serve as director of the Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies at the College of Charleston.

The Zucker/Goldberg Center provides learning opportunities in Holocaust studies and related topics for students at the College, teachers in our state, community members in the South Carolina Lowcountry, and to interested individuals worldwide through virtual resources and connections. The activities and initiatives of the Center are motivated by a belief that knowledge of Holocaust history and human rights issues are pivotally important aspects of “education for citizenship.” 

The Center provides regular courses on the Holocaust, antisemitism, genocide, race and warfare, and related topics in addition to hosting regular visiting speakers at the College of Charleston through our Arnold Nemirow Lecture series.  Students at the College of Charleston with interests in Holocaust studies and related fields will find multiple paid research internship and assistantship positions at the Zucker/Goldberg Center. Our Nemirow Family Research Intern is currently at work on research regarding interviewing aged Holocaust survivors while a partnership with the Charleston Jewish Federation and the family of Max Kirshstein will allow us to hire a new student researcher in the Fall 2024 semester for work on the local Charleston history of Kalushiner Jews and the fate of their former shtetl during the Holocaust. I am happy to co-supervise this work with Professor Ashley Walters of the Pearlstine/Lipov Center for Southern Jewish Culture at the College of Charleston.

The Center also partners with Dr. Jake Newsome and the Pink Triangle Legacies Project advancing the study of queer lives during the Holocaust.  Each year the Center provides funding and support for one College of Charleston student to intern with Dr. Newsome. The third Charleston student to to work with PTLP will start in the Fall 2024 semester.

The Zucker/Goldberg Center further works with Addlestone Library Special Collections to preserve the artifacts, recordings, and writings of Holocaust survivors, liberators, and descendants.  

As director, I work to build the presence and contributions of the Zucker/Goldberg Center as a destination for undergraduate learning and as a hub of scholarly activity. The Center is now at involved in the recording of Holocaust survivor descendant oral history interviews. This is one aspect of an envisioned long-term focus in the arena of oral history.

In future, the Center will continue to offer undergraduate courses on the Holocaust and related topics in Charleston as well as teacher training institutes and learning opportunities for members of the local and wider communities.

For more information or to support the work of the Center, visit our website and follow us on Facebook or get in touch via email at holocaustcenter@cofc.edu.