The mission of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at Florida Gulf Coast University is to increase knowledge and understanding about the Holocaust and other genocides, as well as to strengthen the democratic institutions that can confront genocide and other threats to human rights, such as intolerance, antisemitism, racism and ignorance. The Center seeks to achieve these aims through providing educational opportunities within the university , the wider community ,and in partnership with educational and other organizations throughout the State of Florida, the United States, and internationally. The Center takes as the focus of all its activities the fact that the massive human rights violations that led to the Holocaust , and the genocides that both preceded and followed it, negated the key foundations of Western civilization.The core concern of the Center is to thus reinforce the bases upon which contemporary democratic society is founded , with a view to realizing that each individual has choices and is responsible for his or her own conscience and action.
DCU Number: 100.0140
