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The Eponymous Scholarship

Thanks to the generosity of community member, Andrea Barron, the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies is able to offer a competitive scholarship to students wishing to study abroad. Named in honor of Helen Hirshberg Barron, a lifelong learner and travel enthusiast, the eponymous scholarship helps offset the costs of foreign study and travel for students wishing to participate in CHGS’ study and travel institutes. In 2024, the inaugural scholarship was presented to Vasiliki Tzortzis, a gifted student and early career teacher, who was recently accepted into UMass Boston’s Applied Linguistics PhD Program. The scholarship enabled Vasiliki to travel with Professors Chris Mauriello and Regina Kazyulina to the Benelux and Germany in summer 2024 to study the Holocaust and visit such sites as the Anne Frank House, the ICC, and the Buchenwald Concentration Camp.