UMass Amherst Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies

UMass Amherst Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies Institute for the study of Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory located on the UMass, Amherst campus offering individual or group tours.

The Institute for Holocuast Genoicde and Memory Studies at the University of Massachsetts Amherst is a locus for research and teaching on the Holocaust, as well as on the memory and representation of this and other acts of genocide. The institute's three primary organizing and research rubrics are: History, Memory, and Education. Its principal activities include: teaching and research, public eve

nts and lectures, permanent and temporary exhibitions, collections of research archives, library, multiple media, ( e.g., video and audio testimony, film, art and photography). Regularly sponsored initiatives address several groups of clientele: students and faculty from the University and Five Colleges, as well as from regional middle and high schools; the general public of the Commonwealth; visiting scholars; and cooperating national and international partners.

It's a beautiful day here at the UMass IHGMS! Why not take a walk through campus and come visit our permanent exhibition...
04/05/2013

It's a beautiful day here at the UMass IHGMS! Why not take a walk through campus and come visit our permanent exhibition, "A Reason to Remember"?

03/12/2013

As a special note: the Institute will be open this Friday (3/15) until 11:30 AM instead of 3 PM

03/08/2013
02/21/2012
Item about the first group of middle school students to visit the new Institute's permanent exhibition, "A Reason to Rem...
05/23/2011

Item about the first group of middle school students to visit the new Institute's permanent exhibition, "A Reason to Remember: Roth, Germany, 1939-1942".

04/06/2011

PROGRAM NEXT THURSDAY: Horst Hoheisel's talk will take place on April 14th, at 4:00 at the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies. In his slide-lecture, "The Arts of Counter-Memory," renowned German artist and memorialist, Horst Hoheisel presents his numerous memorial projects, ranging from the victims of the N**i euthanasia program, to the Jews of Germany, to the desaparacidos of Argentina.

Address

758 N Pleasant Street
Amherst, MA
01002

Opening Hours

Monday 10:30am - 3pm
Tuesday 10am - 2pm
Wednesday 10:30am - 3pm
Thursday 10am - 2pm
Friday 10:30am - 3pm

Telephone

+14138350221

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