If you are interested in a free trip to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. on March 11-12, 2006, and have never been to the museum before, you can sign up to go with a group from the Queens College Hillel at http://www.qchillel.org/holocaust.html

The QC Center for Jewish Studies administers a competition for the M. Hratch Zadoian Student Essay Prize in Holocaust/Genocide Studies.

M. Hratch Zadoian, QC's former VP for Finance & Business, established a fund for an essay contest in Holocaust and Genocide Stuides to be administered by the Center. A cash prize of $200 will be awarded to a QC student who writes the best essay on the topic of the Holocaust or other forms of genocide. Entries will be judged by a panel of faculty, including Professors Tamara S. Evans, Benny Kraut, Stuart E. Liebman, and Evan Zimroth. The winning essay will be considered for publications by the Queens College Journal of Jewish Studies. Essays may be written specifically for the contest or may have been originally written for a course (I will work with students to expand essays for this course if they wish). Essays should:

• Evaluate an issue, problem, person, situation, event, idea, etc. that relates to the Holocaust or to genocide more generally.
• Be written from a disciplinary perspective (humanities, sciences, or social sciences are acceptable)
• Conform to proper citation format and bibliographic style
• Be typed, double-spaced, and between 9 and 15 pages long
• Contain cogent argumentation, conceptual sophistication, sound organization, and good literary style

Entries must be submitted by April 24th, 2006 to Professor Benny Kraut of the Jewish Studies Program in the Jewish Studies Office, Jefferson Hall Room 311.

The QC Center for Jewish Studies also sponsers lectures throughout the year. One that is particularly relevant to this course will be held on Thursday, May 11 at 7:30 PM in Lefrak Concert Hall. The Marvin and Celina Zborowski Endowment Lecture will be given by Marion Kaplan, Skirball Professor of Modern Jewish History at NYU. It will be entitled "Jewish Family Life in Nazi Germany."