How Germany Has Come To Terms With Its Past
Thursday, October 18, 2018,
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Facilitator: Stefan Schlüter, retired member of the German Foreign Office and current Program Director at the Diplomatic Academy in Berlin
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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.
Beware the Beginnings: The Power Of Nazi Propaganda
Tuesday, November 27, 2018,
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Facilitator: Dr. Dominique Linchet, formerly with Alabama School of Fine Arts
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We will explore the ways in which the Nazi propaganda machine prepared Germans for the war and ultimately genocide.
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Thursday, January 31, 2019,
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Facilitator: Ann Mollengarden, BHEC Education Coordinator
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Onlookers
Wednesday, February 27, 2019,
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Facilitator: Dr. Janek Wasserman, University of Alabama
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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.”
“Why, Explaining the Holocaust” by Peter Hayes – Part 4 of 4
Thursday, March 15, 2018,
5:00 pm
Facilitator: Chapter 7: Dr. Janek Wasserman, University of Alabama Chapter 8: Dr. Dominique Linchet, formerly Alabama School of Fine Arts
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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.”
“Why? Explaining the Holocaust” by Peter Hayes – Part 3 of 4
Tuesday, January 30, 2018,
5:00 pm
Facilitator: Chapter 5: Dr. Clark Hultquist, University of Montevallo Chapter 6: Amy McDonald, Shades Valley High School
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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?
“Why? Explaining the Holocaust” by Peter Hayes – Part 2 of 4
Thursday, October 19, 2017,
5:00 pm
Facilitator: Chapter 3: Ann Mollengarden, BHEC Chapter 4: Mike Gadilhe, John Carroll Catholic High School
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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?
“Why, Explaining the Holocaust” by Peter Hayes – Part 1 of 4
Thursday, September 14, 2017,
5:00 pm
Facilitator: Chapter 1: Ann Mollengarden, BHEC Chapter 2: Dr. Andy Millard, UAB
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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
Using Personal Diaries to Teach the Holocaust
Thursday, March 16, 2017,
5:00 pm
Facilitator: Amy McDonald, Shades Valley High School
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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.”
Study Guide: I’m Still Here, by Facing History and Ourselves
Chaim Rumkowski’s Speech to Lodz Ghetto Residents
America and the Holocaust
Tuesday, January 24, 2017,
5:00 pm
Facilitator: Ann Mollengarden, BHEC Education Coordinator
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We will examine in detail, the American position during the Holocaust.
PowerPoint: America & the Holocaust
France, the Vel’ d’Hiv Roundup, and the Holocaust
Tuesday, November 1, 2016,
5:00 pm
Facilitator: Dr. Clark Hultquist, University of Montevallo
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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
The Hitler Youth and Education in the Third Reich
Tuesday, September 20, 2016,
5:00 pm
Facilitator: Dr. Thomas (Thom) Thibeault, Samford University
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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
My Father’s Story: James Sedlis, MD
Thursday, March 10, 2016,
5:00 pm
Facilitator: James Sedlis, MD
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James Sedlis’ father was a partisan fighter for the Vilna Ghetto. James will share his story.
German Police Decodes from British Intelligence and the National Archives in Britain
Thursday, January 28, 2016,
5:00 pm
Facilitator: Mike Gadilhe, Teacher, John Carroll Catholic High School
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The materials that Mike presented are currently being translated.
Bialystok: A Study of the Nazi War in the East
Tuesday, November 17, 2015,
5:00 pm
Facilitator: Ann Mollengarden
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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
The War in the East
Tuesday, October 6, 2015,
5:00 pm
Facilitator: Ken Wiggins, Teacher, Ranburne High School
The goal of the Teacher Cadre is to enhance teachers’ knowledge of the Holocaust and its pedagogy as well as to provide a network for peer exchange. Study/Learning Sessions are scheduled on a regular basis during the academic year.