Teacher Cadre

Teaching a Difficult Past – The Holocaust and Jim Crow

With new resources surfacing including the New York Times’ “1619 Project” and the Equal Justice Initiative’s “Legacy Memorial”, we are all faced with re-examining our past. So, too, with the Holocaust as the the USHMM unveils it’s “America and the Holocaust” exhibit.

This discussion will focus on how we teach a difficult past and how do we responsibly address both of these pasts that are so often compared.

CEU Credits (2 hours) will be available.
STI-PD No. UABRIC 12030

Please RSVP to the BHEC.

The Mobile Killing Units – A Case Study of Liepaja, Latvia

Based on a recent webinar created Echoes & Reflections, we will examine a single documented case study: the Latvian city of Liepaja. Using documents, photographs, and films as fragmentary sources, we will try to understand the actions of those involved.

CEU Credits (2 hours) will be available.
STI-PD No. UABRIC 12030

Please RSVP to the BHEC.

POWERPOINT: The Mobile Killing Units – A Case Study of Liepaja, Latvia

Dr. Wasserman will present a discussion of Chapter 7 of Peter Hayes’ book “Why”, entitled “Collaboration and Its Limits.”  He has titled his presentation “Onlookers.”

PowerPoint:  Onlookers by Dr. Janek Wasserman

The Holocaust in Historical Context
What were the conditions that made the Holocaust possible?

Prezi Presentation

Narrative Outline

We will explore the ways in which the Nazi propaganda machine prepared Germans for the war and ultimately genocide.

PowerPoint – “Beware the Beginnings: The Power of Nazi Propaganda”
Dominique Linchet, PhD

LOCATION: Birmingham Civil Rights Institute/Woolfolk Gallery
5:30 pm  Reception
6:00 pm  Program

Retired German diplomat Stefan Schlüter will lead our discussion of “How Germany Has Come To Terms With Its Past,” including how the educational system has addressed the issue of the Holocaust. Along with a distinguished panel, there will follow discussion to include how the US has addressed some it’s own difficult historical issues.

This session of our cadre is open to the community.

This year, over four Cadre sessions, we will be examining the book, “Why, Explaining the Holocaust” by Peter Hayes.
The BHEC will provide copies of the book for participating teachers.

Tonight’s session focuses on Chapters 7 and 8:  “Onlookers: Why Such Limited Help from the Outside” and “Aftermath: What Legacies, What Lessons?”

Please have these chapters read before attending.

RSVP to the BHEC.

Dr. Wasserman was not able to present. This is his PowerPoint from the Community Education presentation:  Chapter 7: Onlookers

Dr. Linchet’s presentation was taken from the USHMM’s Lesson “Oath & Opposition: Education Under the Third Reich.”

This year, over four Cadre sessions, we will be examining the book, “Why, Explaining the Holocaust” by Peter Hayes.
The BHEC will provide copies of the book for participating teachers.

Tonight’s session focuses on Chapters 5 and 6: “Victims: Why Didn’t More Jews Fight Back More Often?” and “Homelands: Why Did Survivor Rates Diverge?”

Please have these chapters read before attending.

RSVP to the BHEC.

Dr. Hultquist’s PowerPoint: Why Didn’t More Jews Fight Back More Often?

Dr. Hultquist’s Handout: “How to Survive a Disaster”

Amy McDonald’s PowerPoint: Why Did Survivor Rates Diverge?

This year, over four Cadre sessions, we will be examining the book, “Why, Explaining the Holocaust” by Peter Hayes.
The BHEC will provide copies of the book for participating teachers.

This session focuses on Chapters 3 and 4: “Escalation: Why Murder?” and “Annihilation: Why This Swift and Sweeping?”

Please have these chapters read before attending.

RSVP to the BHEC.

Ann Mollengarden’s PowerPoint:  Why Murder?

Mike Gadilhe’s PowerPoint:  Why this Swift and Sweeping?

This year, over four Cadre sessions, we will be examining the book, “Why, Explaining the Holocaust” by Peter Hayes.
The BHEC will provide copies of the book for participating teachers.

This session focuses on Chapters 1 and 2:  “Targets: Why the Jews” & “Attackers: Why the Germans?”

Please have these chapters read before attending.

RSVP to the BHEC.

Ann Mollengarden’s PowerPoint: Why the Jews?

Dr. Millard did not have a PowerPoint

Discover a unique lesson on the Holocaust through close reading of Salvaged Pages, an anthology of journals by Jewish teens in hiding in the ghettos, and at Auschwitz and other concentration camps.

PowerPoint: Young Voices During the Holocaust – Their Legacies Continue
by Amy McDonald and Felicia Alexander

Information about the Featured Diarists with times clips where their testimony can be found on the video, “I’m Still Here.”

• Eva Ginzova (27:00-32:45)
• Anonymous Girl (33:40-38:14)
• Elsa Binder (42:26-45:04)
• Miriam Korber (38:15-42:25)

Study Guide: I’m Still Here, by Facing History and Ourselves

Chaim Rumkowski’s Speech to Lodz Ghetto Residents

We will examine in detail, the American position during the Holocaust.

PowerPoint: America & the Holocaust

This presentation will discuss the infamous 1942 Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup in Paris that resulted in the deportation of over 13,000 French Jews to Auschwitz.  We will place this event in the larger context of the Holocaust and the German occupation of France in the Second World War.

PowerPoint:  France, the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup, and the Holocaust
by Dr. Clark Hultquist

For Hitler, the nazification of youth programs and education was a top priority to ensure that future generations would carry the torch of the Thousand Year Reich. Join us as we learn from Dr. Thibeault and he shares sources not readily available to the American public.

PowerPoint: The HJ and Education in the Third Reich
by Dr. Thomas Thibeault

James Sedlis’ father was a partisan fighter for the Vilna Ghetto. James will share his story.

The materials that Mike presented are currently being translated.

A close of Bialystok, Poland, a community first taken over by the Soviets and then by the Nazis.

PowerPoint:  Bialystok: A Study of the Nazi War in the East