The Notre Dame Holocaust Project promotes educational opportunities about the destruction of European Jewry during World War II for the university community.

Working in collaboration with colleagues from a variety of disciplines, the Nanovic Institute for European Studies and colleges throughout the university, ND Holocaust Project sponsors Scholars-in Residence, film series and other forums. Since the year 2000, ND graduate students and undergraduates have travelled to the Center for Dialogue and Prayer near the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland for a week-long seminar on "Theology at the Edge of Auschwitz." They have the opportunity to meet with Jewish and Christian students from Germany and Poland. Graduate students and scholars in the early stages of their teaching career met in Krakow, Poland in 2003 to discuss, "Building for the Future: Jewish-Christian Relations in Cultural Context." In September 2005, students from Poland, Germany, USA and Israel met in Nuremberg to discuss "Memory, Reconciliation and Justice".

The Holocaust Project sponsored Dr. Naomi Chazan as the Provost's Distinguished Woman Lecturer for 2006. Dr. Chazan is a renowned Professor of Political Science and African Studies and heads the School of Government and Society, Academic College of Tel Aviv. From 1992-2003, Professor Chazan was a member of the Israeli Knesset. An author of numerous publications, she received the Freedom and Human Rights Prize for the Foundation for Freedom and Human Rights in Switzerland in 2005.

Two film series are shown each year through the Notre Dame Holocaust Project. In March, the "Genocide Film Series: On Our Watch" took place. An article from the South Bend Tribune details more information.

TRuth Messinger, president of the American Jewish World Service, presented the 2007 Liss Lecture as part of the Holocaust Project's attention to the crisis in the Darfur region of Sudan.

Visit their website at http://www.nd.edu/~msigner/2005_spring/nd_holocaust_project.shtml