About the Liberators Project – The Texas Liberators

In 2016,

the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission approached Texas Tech University with the task of creating an educational tool by which students across Texas would be familiarized with the liberation of the concentration camps in the European Theater of War during the Second World War. The commission provided access to the Institute for Oral History at Baylor University’s collected oral histories of Texans who were veterans of the Second World War and who played a role in the liberation of concentration camps across Europe. Using these testimonials, the team at Texas Tech University developed a digital app to help share the stories of the Texas Liberators with high school students across the state. Texas Tech created a narrative by which students could come to understand the extremes of savagery and fanaticism, humility and humanity of the Second World War from the perspective of the American soldier.

Successful Years Educating Texas Students

To bring awareness of the Holocaust and other genocides to Texas students.

Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission

The mission of the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission (THGC) is to promote awareness and enhance understanding of the Holocaust and other genocides in the world. Since its founding in 2009 by Senate Bill 482, the THGC has dedicated its resources, energy, and expertise to the education of teachers and students to better recognize and acknowledge the consequences of hatred, bigotry and apathy. This commission was created to reaffirm the commitment of the State of Texas and its citizens to choose right over wrong, good over evil, and through those choices to continue to fight the malevolent forces that would perpetrate genocides and make us question our own humanity. Through education and engagement, the THGC seeks to remind the public of its collective responsibility in not only preventing but ending, once and for all, this type of human cruelty.

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From Here, it's Possible.

Texas Tech University

Without the faculty and students at Texas Tech University, the Liberators Project would not have been possible. The project teams consisted of an interdepartmental group of undergraduate students, masters students and PhD. candidates and faculty members. The goal of the project was not only to create an opportunity for Texas high-school students to learn about the Holocaust and the Texas Liberators, but also to educate the students at TTU through the use of participatory learning.

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