The Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College
We are an academic educational center located at Manhattan College, NewYork. Our goal is to help eradicate human suffering, prejudice, and racism through education. We condemn all violence in the name of race, religion, ethnicity and gender. We invite you to attend our educational, artistic and interfaith events. Please be part of our center and its community in New York.
Center's Mission
The Center’s mission is to promote Jewish-Catholic-Muslim “discussion and collaboration” as urged in 1965 by the Vatican’s Nostra Aetate (In Our Time) and seconded in subsequent Papal actions and declarations. “Since Christians and Jews have such a common spiritual heritage, this sacred Council wishes to encourage and further mutual understanding and appreciation.” Nostra Aetate also states that the Church “regards with esteem also the Muslim,” and it urges all “to work sincerely for mutual understanding.”
As befits Manhattan College, an institution of higher education, the Center’s principal sphere is education. Founded in 1996 as the Holocaust Resource Center, the Center expanded its Mission in 2011 and was renamed the Holocaust, Genocide and Interfaith Education Center. This reflects the spirit of the Center’s Mission and the vision that all the foci are interconnected and are part of the educational outreach of the Center. The Center is committed to understanding and respecting differences and similarities between people of all religions, races, ethnicities and nationalities.
The Center’s focus remains the lessons of the Holocaust, which are essential to educating future generations in order to combat prejudice, genocidal ideologies, apathy and Holocaust denial. To this end, the Center is committed to educating people about the Holocaust and genocide while emphasizing the contemporary significance of these events. Although the primary audiences are the College community, the neighborhood and area teachers, the Center also seeks to impact a broader arena through interfaith initiatives and activities. Through education about human suffering in the absence of tolerance, the Center seeks to foster acceptance and understanding among religions, cultures, and communities.
We are located in O'Malley Library in rooms 502, 503 and 504.
Statement on January 6th events on Capitol Hill:
The Holocaust, Genocide, and Interfaith Education Center at Manhattan College is committed to the eradication of human suffering and racism. The Center’s focus remains the lessons of the Holocaust, which are essential to educating future generations in order to combat prejudice, genocidal ideologies, apathy and Holocaust denial. To this end, the Center is committed to educating people about the Holocaust and genocide while emphasizing the contemporary significance of these events.
We judge any praise that any leader or group describing Adolf Hitler as being right or justified as dangerous. Adolf Hitler’s Germany proved to be one of the darkest and destructive times in human history with the advent of World War II and the Holocaust resulting in the genocide of six million European Jews.
We condemn the white nationalist and extremist groups that have used their platform to propel Antisemitism and used Holocaust imagery in the most inappropriate way.
We condemn the severe racism against Black Americans.
We condemn the destruction and desecration of American federal property and any other property.
We ask for peace and solidarity but more importantly love, empathy, and care for one another on our campus, communities, and nation. As our Lasallian values teach us, we have to give respect and dignity for all persons in order to build an Inclusive Community.
