MEMORIAL TRIBUTE TO DR. STEPHEN FEINSTEIN

UMN News
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May 12 2008
MN

Monday, May 12, 2008, 7:30 p.m. in the Cowles Auditorium, Humphrey
Institute, 301 19th Ave S, Minneapolis; University of Minnesota west
bank campus.

A memorial tribute celebrating the life and accomplishments of
Dr. Stephen Feinstein, founding director of the University of Minnesota
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, will take place at the
University of Minnesota on Monday, May 12 at 7:30 p.m. in Cowles
Auditorium, Humphrey Institute, west bank campus. Stephen Feinstein
died of an aneurysm on March 4, 2008. The event will feature music,
videos, and speakers who worked closely with Feinstein during his 10
years as director of CHGS and in his many other public activities. A
dessert reception will follow the program.

>From its founding in 1997 Feinstein built the University of Minnesota’s
Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies into an educational, research
and outreach institution of international renown. He was known around
the world as an advocate for survivors of the Holocaust and other
genocides and for genocide education. Feinstein was particularly known
for his expertise on artistic expression of genocides. He possessed
an almost encyclopedic knowledge about anything Holocaust- and
genocide-related. Feinstein worked to raise awareness of all genocides
using any and all possible outlets; he was especially dedicated to
raising awareness of the Armenian genocide and was even nominated for
a regional Emmy award for a documentary on the 90th Anniversary that
he helped produce for public television. In recent years he dedicated
many CHGS events to the ongoing crisis in Darfur and to remembrance
of the Rwanda genocide. His most recent accomplishment was securing
the funding for and creating programming around the United States
Holocaust Memorial Museum exhibition "Deadly Medicine: Creating the
Master Race," currently showing at the Science Museum of Minnesota.