Eligible Programs

APPALACHIAN STATE UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR JUDAIC, HOLOCAUST & PEACE STUDIES

Martin & Doris Rosen Summer Symposium for Educators

The 2021 symposium will focus on “Children in the Holocaust” and will be held virtually.

We have an exciting slate of speakers and symposium faculty members, including many esteemed and widely-renowned colleagues and experts who are looking forward to working with the participating teachers. Prof. Deborah Dwork, the Founding Director of the Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity at the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center – CUNY, who has worked extensively on children in the Shoah; Dr. Patricia Heberer Rice, the Senior Historian of the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.; Professor Michael Berenbaum, the director of the Sigi Ziering Institute at American Jewish University. We will hear from many child survivors of the Shoah — some like Shimon Redlich survived in Nazi-occupied Poland in hiding, others like Margot Lobree escaped on a Kindertransport — as well as of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, during which Hutu genocidaires killed many children.

We will “virtually go” to Israel and meet for a survivor talk, explore the Yad Vashem campus and talk to some of their experts about children in the Holocaust and how they are remembered at Yad Vashem.

Attending teacher-participants will learn and analyze how the Nazi regime sought to indoctrinate Gentile children and turn them into supporters of their regime. They will also examine how persecuted Jewish children tried to cope with persecution and, eventually, outright genocidal onslaughts. The presentations and assigned materials will shed new light on children’s complex challenges and struggles under Nazi rule and occupation, in the ghettos and even camps as well as many’s resilience and despair.

Dr. Racelle Weiman, a renowned Holocaust educator, will again serve as the symposium’s co-director along with Dr. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, the Levine Distinguished Professor of Judaic, Holocaust, and Peace Studies and CJHPS Director. For many years, the Claims Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany has also generously supported the symposium.

The symposium will provide approximately 40 hours of instruction. Teachers will receive 4 CEUs.

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THE BREMAN MUSEUM / WEINBERG CENTER FOR HOLOCAUST EDUCATION

The Summer Institute on Teaching the Holocaust

For four days, educators will be part of in-depth seminars on topics central to understanding the Holocaust. This includes daily meetings and discussions with Holocaust survivors and instruction by renowned Holocaust educators from the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Yad Vashem’s International School for Holocaust Studies, and other important Holocaust education organizations.

Teachers receive 4 PLUs upon completion.
An additional 1 PLU credit may be obtained by submitting a lesson plan incorporating the subject matter studied during the week.

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FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES

Holocaust and Human Behavior

In today’s world, questions of how to best build and maintain democratic societies that are pluralistic, open, and resilient to violence continues to be relevant. Studying the Holocaust allows students to wrestle with profound moral questions raised by this history and fosters their skills in ethical reasoning, critical thinking, empathy, and civic engagement—all of which are critical for sustaining democracy. This workshop features the fully revised, digital edition of Holocaust and Human Behavior and is intended for middle and high school teachers. 

After this seminar you will:

• Become part of the Facing History educator network, with access to a rich slate of educator resources, including downloadable unit and lesson plans, study guides, and multimedia
• Be able to borrow books and DVDs through the Facing History online lending library at no cost

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HOLOCAUST AND JEWISH RESISTANCE TEACHERS PROGRAM (HAJRTP)

The Summer Seminar of the Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teachers’ Program was initiated by Vladka Meed in 1984. The seminar is designed for secondary school teachers who implement Holocaust studies in their classrooms. The group of approximately 24  teachers visits historic sites and hears from survivors and prominent scholars.

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• To advance education in U.S. secondary schools about the Holocaust and Jewish Resistance
• To deepen teachers’ knowledge and strengthen their ability to implement Holocaust studies in their classrooms
• To teach each new generation about the Holocaust and Jewish resistance, so that they will know, understand, and never forget
• To further educational activities which use the lessons of the past as warnings for the present and the future

2018 Program Fact Sheet

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HOLOCAUST EDUCATORS NETWORK

The Olga Lengyel Institute (TOLI) for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights

TOLI welcomes applications from middle school, high school, and college faculty across the U.S. who seek to deepen their teaching about the Holocaust, genocide, and social justice.

Led by Sondra Perl and Jennifer Lemberg, this 12-day seminar encourages teachers to think creatively and collaboratively about how they teach the Holocaust and more recent genocides.  Participants become adept at dealing with difficult material and discover how writing, dialogue, and inquiry can help motivate students toward social action.

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JEWISH FOUNDATION FOR THE RIGHTEOUS

The Birmingham Holocaust Education Center is designated a “Center of Excellence” by the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous.  The Holocaust Centers of Excellence Program is a partnership between the JFR and the participating Holocaust Center.  In agreeing to participate in the program, each center agrees to nominate two educators each year to attend the Summer Institute for Teachers.  Additionally, each center agrees to sponsor Holocaust teacher education programs that draw on JFR materials and training modules.  The Centers make a commitment to teach the Holocaust in as comprehensive a manner as possible and to include the subject of rescue.  Teachers who attend JFR programs are known as Alfred Lerner Fellows and form a cadre of educators for each local center as well as for the JFR.

The JFR’s additional education programs are comprehensive and far-reaching.  They include not only the summer residential program but an advanced seminar, and educators’ trip to Europe, an academic newsletter, a teachers’ internet resource, and partnerships with Holocaust Centers throughout the country.

Summer Institute for Teachers

The Summer Institute for Teachers examines the Holocaust from the precedents found in the history of antisemitism, to the rise of the Nazi party, the machinery of death, rescue, through to the aftermath of the Holocaust. The text will be How Was It Possible? A Holocaust Reader by Professor Peter Hayes.

The program is a high-level, intensive academic seminar in which participants are exposed to prominent Holocaust scholars. Participants meet in small groups following each lecture,  enabling them to share teaching concepts and to develop approaches to introducing the subject matter to their students.

All participants selected to attend the JFR Summer Institute for Teachers are known as Alfred Lerner Fellows and must be nominated by one of the centers in our Holocaust Centers of Excellence Program. In order to participate in other JFR educational programs, a teacher must be an Alfred Lerner Fellow and have remained involved with their local Holocaust center. While there is a participant fee, the JFR provides each Lerner Fellow with a significant scholarship to attend the Summer Institute for Teachers. The program is a residential program – all participants stay on the Columbia University campus.  Participants are expected to complete required readings prior to the start of the program.

The JFR Summer Institute for Teachers provides the foundation for other JFR education programs, such as the Advanced Seminar and European Study Program which delve deeply into aspects of the Holocaust not covered by other Holocaust teacher education programs.

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Advanced Seminar

The JFR holds its Advanced Seminar every year over the birthday weekend of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  This 3-day, intensive program is open only to Alfred Lerner Fellows and is limited to 24 participants. The Advanced Seminar is designed to deepen knowledge of the Holocaust in particular geographies or thematic areas.  Participants are expected to complete required readings and writing assignments prior to the start of the program.

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European Study Program

The European Study Program offers participants an intensive educational experience.  This program is scheduled every other year and is limited to twenty Lerner Fellows.  It includes visits to concentration camps; ghetto sites; former shtetls; and meetings with survivors, rescuers, local historians, and teachers.  The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous sees the European Study Program as its capstone and provides a subsidy for each participant.

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U.S. HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM

Belfer National Conference for Educators

Funded by a grant from the Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Foundation, this conference is free to pre-service teachers, middle and high school educators, and community college faculty interested in teaching about the Holocaust. While the conference is designed for educators with less than five years experience teaching about the Holocaust, educators with more experience are also invited to attend.

During the conference, Museum educators and scholars share rationales, strategies, and approaches for teaching about the Holocaust. Participants have the opportunity to network with other educators, hear from Holocaust survivors, and explore the Museum’s full range of resources. Those who complete the conference receive educational materials from the Museum.

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Museum Teacher Fellowship Program

The Museum Teacher Fellowship Program seeks to train leaders in the field of Holocaust education. The fellows are a national corps of skilled educators who assist the Museum’s efforts to promote quality Holocaust education that is rooted in accurate history and responsible pedagogy.

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YAD VASHEM

International Seminar for Educators: “Teaching the Shoah and Antisemitism”

This 19-day seminar is one that requires a tremendous amount of physical, intellectual, and emotional stamina.  Throughout most of the seminar you will find yourself sitting in the classroom listening to the pre-eminent scholars in the various fields of Holocaust education.

The seminar is built upon three major pillars:  academic, pedagogical, and experiential.

–  The academic component will take you through the history and culture of the Jewish people in the interwar period.  It will continue through the history of antisemitism, the stages of the Final Solution, and the Jewish response to the Nazi onslaught.  This element, although historically based, will include lectures on literature, theology, psychology, and art.

–  The pedagogical component will provide the participants with the tools to translate this academic content into suitable pedagogical materials that are age appropriate and multi-disciplinary.

–  The experiential component has three varied parts.  The first and most important is meetings with survivors.  During the course of this seminar, participants meet with ten to twelve survivors whose testimonies document and personalize this tragic historical event.  The second element is field trips that will connect educators not only with the recent history of the Jewish people but also with its ancient roots in the Land of Israel.  The final component is a series of films and optional workshops that will enhance both the historical and pedagogical components of the program.  We will address the recent upsurge of antisemitism and Holocaust denial throughout the world today including strategies for combating these phenomena.

This seminar is accredited by the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and a participant can receive up to four MA credits. Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA will award three MA credits. Either option is contingent upon the completion of a required work post seminar and payment to the respective institution.

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