The Zucker/Goldberg Center for Holocaust Studies supports student learning, teaching, and research at the College of Charleston and beyond. Our work is dedicated to the memory of the victims of genocide and to the creation of a better world through the lessons of the World War II era. While recognizing the sadly incomplete nature of the “Never Again” mission, we wholeheartedly believe that learning about these events remains a pivotal aspect of “education for citizenship.”

Now more than twenty years old, the Center is at a crossroads. In 2025, we are beginning a new international oral history project focusing on the testimonies of Holocaust survivor descendants in partnership with the Yale Fortunoff Video Archive and the NYU Center for the Study of Antisemitism. In this work the Center and its partners around the world seek to understand the Holocaust inheritance in terms of personal choices, identity formation, and more.

As a major part of this new work, the Center has hired the inaugural Rose Mibab and Carl Goldberg Postdoctoral Fellow as a participant in oral history collection and a facilitator of the project. Dr. Hana Green (PhD, Clark University, 2025) came onboard in this role in Fall 2025. She will coordinate the partners in this project while continuing her own research and teaching courses at the College of Charleston.      

In addition to our oral history project, the Center continues its core missions in terms of teaching, research, and outreach. We regularly offer courses on the Holocaust and related topics to students at the College and training for teachers across the state in partnership with the South Carolina Council on the Holocaust. The Center further leads a summer study abroad program on the Holocaust and European Jewish Life in Germany, Poland, and Lithuania.

The Center is an also active and growing space for students and community members to learn about the Holocaust and related topics through special events, displays, and speaker visits. Our Arnold Nemirow Lecture Series supports one scholar visit each semester with talks from the likes of Father Patrick Desbois, Ed Westermann, and others making for memorable occasions. Of course, the visit of Elie Wiesel to our campus in the early days of the Center’s existence will forever hold pride of place.

At the national advocacy level, the Center partners with the Pink Triangle Legacies Project to support one student internship per year in the area of queer Holocaust history. The Center has funded three College of Charleston students in this role and, through their work, helped to create educational materials on the lives of queer people during the World War II era.

Closer to home, our director and the Goldberg Fellow offer student mentorship and independent study in Holocaust history at the undergraduate and MA levels. We are proud to have recent graduates in PhD and professional programs from Boston College to the University of Southern California.

You would be forgiven for not expecting it, but South Carolina is state gifted in the area of Holocaust studies. We are able to work with teachers and community memory leaders from Myrtle Beach to Greenville through the South Carolina Council on the Holocaust while we further benefit from the presence of the Anne Frank Center at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC. In this vibrant local space, we see the Zucker/Goldberg Center’s provision of research support and scholarly expertise as our primary contributions both in and out of state.

If you are a prospective student or parent interested in Holocaust studies, a teacher or school administrator looking for professional development assistance, seeking research support, or would like to support our work, please reach out.