Category: Ackerman Center

A $1.1 million gift from the Edward and Wilhelmina Ackerman Foundation continues the family’s multigenerational support of the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies at The University of Texas at Dallas. The gift will enhance the center’s internationally recognized scholarship while expanding its outreach mission through online learning. “Today, the lessons of the Holocaust are more […]

For 35 years the Holocaust Studies Program at UT Dallas has been a beacon of scholarship and enlightenment regarding one of the most traumatic events in human history. From 1933 to 1945, Jewish citizens and others who lived in countries throughout Europe were rounded up and killed in Nazi concentration camps. Among the 6 million […]

During the recent Comets Giving Days, the School of Arts and Humanities received more than $1 million in donations. Two major gifts were donated to the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies: The Edward and Wilhelmina Ackerman Foundation announced a gift of $1.1 million, and a $100,000 gift from the Gundy family will establish the Richard […]

The Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies recently hosted the event “Echoes of Atrocity in Ukraine.” The event, meant to recognize the recent invasion of Ukraine as well as pay tribute to those lost in this region both in the past and present, featured presentations by the Ackerman faculty as well as musical performances by students […]

The University of Texas at Dallas School of Arts and Humanities and the UT Dallas Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies will present Bent, a play by Martin Sherman, for two upcoming weekends: April 21 – April 23 and April 28 – April 30 at 8 p.m. The play centers on persecution of homosexuals by bringing […]

Nearly 4,000 books and archival materials from two leading Holocaust scholars have been donated to the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies. The donation, compiled by Dr. Marcia Littell and her late husband Rev. Dr. Franklin Littell, makes the Ackerman Center the second largest collection of Holocaust and genocide books in the Americas. The support of […]

Nearly 30 years ago, Dr. Hobson Wildenthal stepped onto The University of Texas at Dallas campus as the chief academic officer for the University. His influence over the next three decades would affect every aspect of the institution — from the sciences to the arts, from business affairs to campus architecture and landscaping, to the […]

Donors to The University of Texas at Dallas continued to break records during the fifth annual Comets Giving Days on May 26 and 27. Nearly $1.4 million was raised from more than 2,800 gifts to benefit over 100 campus groups. The single largest gift came from Marilyn and Jerry Comer MS’77. The couple contributed $500,000 […]

After a successful first season, the Ackerman Center Podcast has launched a second season with a new series: “A Year in the Third Reich.” Developed by Dr. Sarah Valente, visiting assistant professor of the Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, the new season will devote one episode to each year that Adolf Hitler was in power, […]

After receiving her bachelor’s degree in humanities from Bucknell University, Stacey Knepp MA’09 knew she wasn’t done with the work she had started as an undergraduate. “I had taken numerous years of ancient Greek, translating Greek text,” Knepp said. “UTD was one of a few universities in the country offering a graduate-level program in translation […]