Teacher Workshop for Western States Educators

Description

This two-day workshop will bring up to 25 teachers from many western states schools to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Social studies and Language Arts teachers of grades 6-12 with five or fewer years of experience in teaching about the Holocaust are encouraged to apply. Educators from suburban and rural schools in these states are eligible: AK, AZ, CA, CO, HI, ID, MT, NV, NM, OR, UT, WA, WY.

Teachers will use the Museum's exhibitions as their primary classroom as they learn the history of this tragic human event. Museum staff and scholars will then assist participants in exploring questions of rationale, content, and methodology in teaching the Holocaust.

Contact name
Hansen, Sheila
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Phone number
605-645-1810
Target Audience
6-12
Start Date
Cost
Free
Contact Title
Regional Museum Educator
Duration
Two days
End Date

Teaching the Holocaust in the 21st Century: A Workshop in Jackson, Wyoming

Description

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in cooperation with the Teton County School District and the Jackson Hole Art Association, presents this one-day workshop, free of charge. This workshop will feature sessions on guidelines for teaching about the Holocaust and genocide, new classroom-ready lessons from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and a Holocaust survivor speaking to participants. The workshop will also include a tour and hands-on learning in the USHMM traveling exhibit: "Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings."

Contact name
Bauman, Lisa
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Phone number
913-638-6527
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free
Contact Title
Regional Museum Educator
Duration
One day

University of Nevada, Reno: Teaching about the Holocaust

Description

In cooperation with the College of Education at the University of Nevada, Reno, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is sponsoring a one-day teacher workshop, free of charge, to classroom, pre-service teachers, and community college educators of language arts and social studies, though all disciplines are welcomed. This workshop will focus on rationale, technology and resources for teaching about the Holocaust.

Contact name
Ferrara, Margaret
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Phone number
775-682-7530
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free
Duration
One day

San Jose State University Workshop: Teaching about the Holocaust

Description

In cooperation with the Connie L. Lurie College of Education at San Jose State University, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is sponsoring a one-day teacher workshop, free of charge, to classroom, pre-service teachers, and community college educators of language arts and social studies, though all disciplines are welcomed. This workshop will focus on rationale, technology, and resources for teaching about the Holocaust.

Contact name
Sussman, Bonnie
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Phone number
510-435-5846
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free
Contact Title
Regional Museum Educator
Duration
One day

CSU Sacramento Northern California Teacher Forum on Holocaust Education

Description

This forum, designed for secondary, pre-service, and community college educators, explores the content, methodologies, and rationales for teaching the history of the Holocaust; increases teachers' knowledge of the Holocaust; and examines contemporary issues associated with this history.

Contact name
Feinberg, Stephen
Contact email
Registration Deadline
Sponsoring Organization
California State University; United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Phone number
202-488-0456
Target Audience
Secondary
Start Date
Duration
Three days
End Date

Nuremberg Trials: Perspectives

Description

Dr. John Barrett of St. Johns University of Law (one of the foremost Nuremberg Trials historian in the United States) will give the background and importance of the Nuremberg Trials. John Q. Barrett is a Professor of Law at St. Johns University School of Law in New York City, where he teaches constitutional law, criminal procedure, and legal history. Professor Barrett currently is working on a biography of Justice Jackson that will include the first inside account of his year (1945–46) away from the Supreme Court as the chief American prosecutor of the principal surviving Nazi leaders at the International Military Tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany. He will be followed by three veterans of the First Division who were guards or military police during the trials who will share their experiences.

Sponsoring Organization
First Division Museum
Phone number
630-260-8274
Start Date
Cost
Free
Course Credit
1.5 Teacher CPDUs available for this event.

Out of the Past: Examining Homophobia in History

Description

How can educators use history to help inform students about the treatment of gays and lesbians in the past and today, and how are schools responding to name-calling, bullying, ostracism, and outright violence against our communities? In this session, participants will examine examples from history, including the treatment of homosexuals under the Nazi regime, to help guide the conversation.

Sponsoring Organization
Facing History and Ourselves
Target Audience
K-12
Start Date
Cost
Free
Duration
Three and a half hours

Home is Where You Find It

Description

Author, architect, and Holocaust survivor Benjamin Hirsch talks about his and his siblings' escape from Nazi Germany and their efforts to adapt to life in the American South during the 1940s, in the face of continued antisemitism.

This feature is no longer available from WGBH.

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer National Conference for Educators

Description

At this conference, special emphasis will be placed on the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's new exhibit, "State of Deception: The Power of Nazi Propaganda." Museum educators and scholars share rationales, strategies, and approaches for presenting this complex topic to students, in sessions designed specifically for middle- and high-school teachers. Participants have extensive time to view the Museum's permanent exhibition "The Holocaust"; tour "Remember the Children: Daniel's Story," and other special exhibitions; and visit the interactive computers in the Wexner Learning Center and other resource areas. Seminar sessions emphasize planning and implementing units of study for teaching about the Holocaust in middle and high schools. Educators who complete the program receive a set of educational materials and a voucher worth $100 to purchase Holocaust–related resources in the Museum Shop.

Sponsoring Organization
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Contact email
Location
Washington, DC
Contact name
Fredlake, Peter J.
Phone number
202-314-0352
Start Date
End Date
Registration Deadline

U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Website

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Interactive exhibitions and resources address the Holocaust and related subjects. The site is composed of five sections: education, research, history, remembrance, and conscience.

"Education" introduces the subject of the Holocaust and provides extensive bibliographies. "Research" contains a survivor registry and an international directory of activities relating to Holocaust-era assets. Searchable catalogs pertaining to the Museum's collections and library are easy to navigate to find artworks, artifacts, documents, photographs, films, videos, oral histories, and music. "History" includes the Holocaust Learning Center, with images, essays, and documents on 75 subjects, such as anti-Semitism, refugees, pogroms, extermination camps, and resistance. "Committee on Conscience" contains information on current genocidal practices in Sudan.