[Congressional Record Volume 154, Number 44 (Friday, March 14, 2008)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E428-E429]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                       HONORING STEPHEN FEINSTEIN

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                          HON. TIMOTHY J. WALZ

                              of minnesota

                    in the house of representatives

                         Friday, March 14, 2008

  Mr. WALZ of Minnesota. Madam Speaker, I rise in memory of Stephen 
Feinstein, the director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide 
Studies and adjunct professor of history at the University of 
Minnesota, who died unexpectedly on March 4, 2008. He was 64.
  Born in Philadelphia and educated at Villanova and New York 
Universities, Prof. Feinstein taught for 30 years at the University of 
Wisconsin at River Falls before joining the faculty at the University 
of Minnesota. From its founding in 1997, he built the Center for 
Holocaust and Genocide Studies into an internationally renowned 
educational, research, and outreach institution that was engaged with a 
broad range of human rights issues, including the Armenian Genocide, 
the treatment of Native Americans, and the humanitarian crises in East 
Africa. To end genocide, he once said, ``we must study it and 
understand how it works against what we call `civilization','' if 
possible to develop an ``early warning system'' to prevent future 
genocides.
  Feinstein was known around the world as an advocate for Holocaust 
survivors and genocide education, and in particular, for his expertise 
on artistic expression and genocide. In addition to his CHGS 
responsibilities and activities, he served as an art consultant and 
guest curator for numerous museums, universities and art galleries in 
Minnesota, Florida, New York and Washington, D.C.
  ``Above all else,'' said his colleague Eric Weitz, ``Stephen 
Feinstein was a great humanitarian, someone with a profound belief in 
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value of research and education, a person who truly believed that if we 
had just one more lecture about Darfur, ran one more outreach session 
with teachers on the Armenian Genocide, taught one more course on the 
Holocaust and genocides, it really could make a difference and the 
world would be a better place for all of us.''

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