

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: What You Do Matters: Lessons from Holocaust Perpetrators and Peacekeepers in Rwanda
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 11 Feb, 2026 at 12:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Dr. David Frey, Professor, U.S. Military Academy at West Point
Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 12:00pm - 1:10pm
Location: McNeely Hall, room 100, click here for map
free and open to the public (click here to register) - required here: https://tommielink.stthomas.edu/event/11977340

Also presenting at St. Cloud State University (SCSU): Dr. Frey will give this lecture at SCSU the evening before, Wed, February 11 at 5:30 PM in the Atwood Theatre. Free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Center for Holocaust &amp; Genocide Education and JCRC.

Drawing from two case studies developed to educate future military officers about decision-making, Dr. Frey will discuss why it is important (particularly for those who are entrusted to use deadly force) to study the Holocaust and other genocides. He will discuss decisions made by German officers serving in occupied Soviet lands in 1941 as well as choices made by Major General Roméo Dallaire, who was Force Commander of the United Nations Mission in Rwanda, during the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.

Dr. David Frey is Professor of History and founding Director of the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he has taught since 2004. A specialist in Central European history, the Holocaust, genocide studies, and military ethics, he is the author of Jews, Nazis, and the Cinema of Hungary: The Tragedy of Success, 1929–44 and co-author of Ordinary Soldiers: A Study in Law, Ethics and Leadership, along with numerous articles and chapters on mass atrocity, antisemitism, extremism, and pedagogy. His work has helped shape Defense Department and service academy approaches to atrocity prevention and professional military education, and he has been recognized with multiple awards and fellowships, including appointment as the William J. Lowenberg Memorial Fellow on America, the Holocaust, and the Jews at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Hosted by the Holocaust and Genocide Studies Minor and the Jay Phillips Center for Interreligious Studies in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of St. Thomas in collaboration with the History Department, the Aerospace Studies Department, and the Four Pillars Project at St. Thomas, the Center for Holocaust &amp; Genocide Education at St. Cloud State University and the Jewish Community Relations Council of Minnesota and the Dakotas (JCRC).
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/mendota/what-you-do-matters-lessons-from-holocaust-perpetrators-and-peacekeepers-in-rwanda/200029504840443
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, fine-arts, theatre
- **Interested Audience**: 
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## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Mendota
- **state**: MN
- **country**: United States
- **location**: University of St. Thomas
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- **long**: -93.189053891021
- **full address**: University of St. Thomas, 2115 Summit Ave,Saint Paul, Minnesota, Mendota, United States

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- **organizer**: Jay Phillips Center for Interreligious Studies at University of St Thomas (https://allevents.in/org/jay-phillips-center-for-interreligious-studies-at-university-of-st-thomas/13670293)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Wed, 11 Feb, 2026 at 12:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** University of St. Thomas, 2115 Summit Ave,Saint Paul, Minnesota, Mendota, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Jay Phillips Center for Interreligious Studies at University of St Thomas
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