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President Obama and Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel announce the creation of an Atrocity Prevention Board and cite a Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies program
Participants in the second Mass Atrocity Education Workshop for service academy faculty assemble at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC.
Cadet Shawn Brands, 2012 summer intern at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague
Former New York District Attorney Robert Morgenthau and Dr. David Frey at West Point's Day of Remembrance.
1st Lieutenant Nathan Custer (USMA 2010) of the 82nd Airborne Division speaks at the Museum of Jewish Heritage a Living Memorial to the Holocaust about his study of the Holocaust in Auschwitz and Krakow, Poland. “When I became a platoon leader and prepared to deploy to Iraq, I remembered the lessons I gained from my time in Poland. Thanks to the American Service Academies Program, I realized that if I deviated in word or deed when interacting with the Iraqi population, my soldiers would follow my example.”
Participants in the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation's American Service Academies Program
American Service Academies Program participants with Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation staff and the US Consul General in Krakow, Poland
American Service Academies Program participants with Polish officers, cadets, and Ms. Kaya Mirecka Ploss
Cadets take part in the Beitler Family Foundation program at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Welcome to the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
Mission

The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at West Point educates the Corps of Cadets about genocide and mass atrocity and inspires them as officers to the cause of prevention. Intrinsic to this mission is the imperative to better educate the country’s current and future military leaders on how genocides have occurred in the past and what can be done to prevent them in the future.
 
Vision
 
West Point’s Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies is the only center of its kind at the service academies and has already begun operating as an inter-academy hub. The center seeks to link all branches of the military, including the service academies, the Reserve Officer Training Corps and Department of Defense (DoD) advanced education programs, through research, curricular development, and common programming for the development of cadets and midshipmen. The center further serves to link the Armed Forces with civilian academic institutions and non-governmental entities. Thus, the center acts as a creator and facilitator, serving as a key resource for the DoD as the nation seeks to find better means of preventing mass atrocity. 
 
Objectives
  • The CHGS will offer a range of programming designed to teach the causes, contexts, and conse¬quences of the Holocaust and other instances of genocide;
  • It will instill within cadets a deep sense of history, ethics, and responsibility;
  • It will work across disciplines to produce innovative and wide-ranging approaches to the problem of mass atrocity;
  • It will produce practical, actionable knowledge useful to cadets, the Army, the DoD and the nation.
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