Past Regional Programs

Pacific Northwest

The Citizen Other: Nazi Germany and the Pacific Northwest

Between 2020–2023, the Regional Programming Initiative successfully co-organized programs in British Columbia, Idaho, Northern California, Oregon, and Washington. Our programming centered on the “citizen other” — how governments and ordinary citizens worked to define who belonged and who was excluded in the national body in Nazi-occupied Europe and the Pacific Northwest. Holocaust scholars and local faculty engaged in discussions about the history of racism, antisemitism, persecution, and struggles for equal rights in their unique historical contexts from 1920s–1950s. The Museum network in the region continues to explore emerging interdisciplinary research on the Holocaust and actively organizes student research symposia to this day.

Deep South

Race and Society in Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South

Between 2017–2018, the Regional Programming Initiative successfully co-organized events in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi, and Tennessee. Our programs delved into the history of racism, the rise of eugenics, and the evolution of racist and antisemitic policies in Nazi Germany and the racially-segregated American South during the 1930s–1940s. Together, Holocaust scholars and local faculty engaged in meaningful dialogue about the responsibilities of onlookers and collaborators in targeted oppression and prejudicial violence within their respective historical contexts.