News 2016-2020
News 2020-2021
- RWI streams film for free online and co-sponsors talk by Prof. Marion Kaplan
- “Fairhaven and the Ray Wolpow Institute to launch a new Human Rights minor this fall, WesternToday, April 20, 2021
- “Call for Student Applications: The Kohlmeier Mikulencak Scholarship,” WesternToday, April 1, 2021
- “Fairhaven’s Babafemi Akinrinade discusses new book on mass atrocities and international law in Africa,” WesternToday, April 1, 2021
- “RWI to Co-Host 2021 International Holocaust Remembrance Day Lecture January 27, The Wannsee Conference Now & Then,” WesternToday, January 5, 2021
- “It is not too late for American Democracy – yet,” Björn Krondorfer, Nils Roemer, Sandra Alfers, Thomas Pegelow, and Wolf Gruner, Scribe, The Forward’s Contributor Network, September 29, 2020
- Ray Wolpow Institute to present film, webinar on Franco dictatorship, WesternToday, September 18, 2020
News 2019-2020
- Ray Wolpow Institute to present film, webinar on Franco dictatorship
- Wolpow Institute is a community partner of the Holocaust Center for Humanity in Seattle for their virtual program on COVID-19 and atrocity prevention
- Western welcomes Susanne Rinner
- Wolpow Institute Winter Newsletter, January 2020
- New Minor Launches, Honors Holocaust Survivor, The Western Front, October 21, 2019
- Wolpow Institute Fall Newsletter, September 2019
- WWU Launches New Holocaust and Genocide Studies Minor with Oct. 17 Talk by James Waller, Westerntoday, September 4, 2019
- Western Washington University to honor Holocaust survivor with genocide studies minor, The Bellingham Herald, September 4, 2019
- Western Washington University to offer Holocaust studies, Miami Herald, September 5, 2019
- WWU announces Holocaust and Genocide Studies minor, KGMI News Talk, September 5, 2019
- Holocaust survivor, educator dies at 96, Q13Fox Report, Steve Kiggins
News 2018-2019
- The Stories They Shared by Frances Badgett, Victor Poznanski and Bernhard Kohlmeier, WWU Magazine WINDOW, Summer, 2019
- WWU and Northwestern University Partner for ‘Teaching the Holocaust in the Global Age’ May 10-12
- Wolpow Institute Newsletter Spring 2019
- WWU to host Devin Naar “From the Ottoman Empire to Auschwitz”, May 11, 2019.
- WWU to host Anne Cubilié “Impossibility of Witness: Justice, Gender, and Operational Practice,” March, 7, 2019.
- WWU’s Ray Wolpow Institute to Host “Teaching the Holocaust 101” October 18, 2019
- Wolpow Institute Faculty Committee Member and WWU Professor of Human Rights, Babafemi Akinrinade, Researching Genocidal Atrocities Across Africa
- RWI Director Sandra Alfers featured in Holocaust Educational Foundation at Northwestern University summer newsletter
- Western faculty member Sandra Alfers recognized with statewide faculty citizenship award
News 2017-2018
- Western’s Sandra Alfers honored with statewide faculty citizenship award
- Times of Israel article: Washington state university holds ceremony replacing defaced books
- WWU video of Reshelving Ceremony
- WWU interviews with speakers at Reshelving Ceremony
- Western Today article about Reshelving Ceremony
- KIRO TV Report – WWU community steps up in response to messages of hate
- KOMO TV Report – New Jewish studies book replace ones damaged by vandals at WWU
- Western Front article: Western reshelves books in response to antisemitic vandalism
- Western Libraries Responds to Antisemitism Book Vandalism
- KOMO TV Report – WWU Plans Ceremony to Replace Jewish Books Vandalized at School Library
- Dr. Sandra Alfers attends national leadership summit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- University press release on exhibition “Germany: Integrating Immigrants”
- Dr. Sandra Alfers appears on BTV show “Bellingham Voices” with Marie Marchand
- University press release on talk by Mark Weitzman
- University press release on talk by Deborah Lipstadt
News 2016-2017
- University press release on talk by Sandra Alfers
- University press release on Noémi Ban visits to campus in April 2017
- University press release on Arndt Peltner’s visit to campus in April 2017
- University press release on workshop “Teaching about the Holocaust” at WWU on April 29, 2017
- Free professional development opportunity for teachers in Bellingham, WA on April 29, 2017
- Holocaust survivor and educator Noemi Ban to speak at WWU on March 8, 2017
- WWU to Host Native American Activist Brian Cladoosby February 9th
- Historian Shares Research on Native American Genocide in California
- Wolpow Institute joins more than 91 Holocaust organizations from around the world in support of AHO open letter decrying intolerance and hate speech
- WWU Creates Ray Wolpow Institute for Study of Holocaust, Genocide
- Holocaust and genocide to be focus of new institute at Western Washington University
- Ray Wolpow Institute Advances Knowledge About Ethnic and Religious Conflict
- Dr. Alfers publishes book on Holocaust survivor Else Dormitzer in Germany