Dear Holocaust Educators,
We are pleased to send you the Holocaust Education Newsletter for Fall 2010.
We have two exciting conferences in the Philadelphia area this fall as well as five films celebrating their Philadelphia premieres. These programs, coordinated with the anniversary of Kristallnacht, November 9-10, 1938, offer the opportunity to enhance your professional development and design classroom lessons.
Josey G. Fisher, Holocaust Education Consultant
Editor
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| PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT | Pennsylvania Holocaust Education Council (PHEC)
Statewide Conference for
Pennsylvania Educators
Let Memory Speak: Voices of the Holocaust
Sunday - Monday, October 10 - 11, 2010
Reading Arts District, Reading, PA Keynote Speaker: Alexandra Zapruder, editor of Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of the HolocaustA screening of I'm Still Here, based on her book will follow.
Additional films to be shown will include:- As Seen through These Eyes, followed by Q&A with director Hilary Helstein, and - No. 4 Street of Our Lady, followed by Q&A with survivor Fay Miliken. Opportunities for Echoes and Reflections training, including a free curriculum guide, and choice of breakout sessions.
ACT 48 credit available.Pre-registration required. Click here for further details
or contact Jennifer Goss.*****
Gratz College
Esther Tuzman Memorial Holocaust Teach-In
Sunday, November 7, 2010 2:30 - 9:00 PM
Gratz College, 7605 Old York Road
Melrose Park, PA
Keyn ote Speaker: Nechama Tec,
"From Dry Tears to Defiance -
Altruism, Mutual Help and Resistance
in the Holocaust"Choice of seminars, panel of child survivors, and screening of "Secret Lives: Hidden Children and Their Rescuers during World War II," followed by a discussion with child psychoanalyst
Dr. Henri Parens.
ACT 48 credit and professional development hours for
New Jersey teachers available.
Click here for more information and to register, or contact Mindy Blechman, 215.635-7300, ext. 154.*****
A concurrent exhibit in the Kramer Gallery, "Renée
in the Shadows," created by artists Linda Dubin Garfield and
Elsa Wachs, and inspired by the story of Ruth Hartz (Your Name is Renée) will remain on display until the end of November. |
PHILADELPHIA FILM PREMIERES
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A FILM UNFINISHED Opens Wednesday, October 15, 2010
for a two-week run at the Landmark Ritz at the BourseAt the end of the war, 60 minutes of raw film footage, shot by the Nazis in the Warsaw Ghetto in May 1942
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was discovered. Initially the footage was seen by historians as an authentic
record, but the discovery of a long-missing reel complicated earlier readings of the footage. This important film presents the raw footage in its entirety, carefully noting fictionalized sequences and probes into the making of a now infamous Nazi propaganda film. 2010 Sundance Film Festival Winner.
SAVIORS IN THE NIGHT
Monday, November 8, 2010 7:00 PM
Gersham Y, Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival
Broad and Pine Streets, Philadelphia, PA
Feature length film based on the memoir of Marga Spiegel, whose family was rescued by German farmers during the Nazi deportation of 1943. Introduction by Dr. Marcia Sachs Littell and Q&A with director Ludi Boeken. In German and French with English subtitles. More informationPROTEKTOR
Tuesday, November 9, 2010 7:00 PM
Hiway Theatre, Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival
212 Old York Road, Jenkintown, PA
Award-winning film of domestic suffering of 1938 Prague under Nazi occupation. Post-film Q&A with actor Jana Plodkova. In Czech with English subtitles. More information
INSIDE HANA'S SUITCASE
Sunday, November 14, 2010 3:00 PM
Painted Bride Art Center230 Vine Street, Philadelphia, PABased on internationally acclaimed book Hana's Suitcase by
Karen Levine, this film documents the efforts of a group of Japanese school
children determined to discover the ownership of a battered suitcase sent from
Auschwitz to a Tokyo
museum. Post-film Q&A with Fumiko Ishioka, Director of the Tokyo Holocaust
Education Resource
Center, who helped the
students unravel the mystery. Sponsored by Temple University and Temple
University, Japan
Campus. More informationThursday, November 18, 2010 7:00 PM
Gershman Y, Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival
Broad and Pine Streets, Philadelphia, PA
Award-winning film based on a true encounter between Hitler and Spain's most beloved clown who had come to Berlin in 1944 to perform for Hitler's birthday celebration. The clown's apolitical, playful intent turns subversive with input from a Gestapo agent. More information |
EXHIBITIONS/CONFERENCE IN
NEW YORK CITY
| | ANNE FRANK CENTER USA,
IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LEICA GALLERY
Anne Frank: A Private Photo Album -
The Leica Photographs of Otto Frank
On view through October 30, 2010
Leica Gallery - 670 Broadway, NYC More information
MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE
Fire in My Heart: The Story of Hannah Senesh Opening October 13, 2010
36 Battery
Place, NYC More information
CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY
- Yiddish Schools in Poland:
Creating the Culture, Awakening the Spirit On view through October 31, 2010 - 16 mm Postcards: Home Movies of American Jewish Visitors to 1930's Poland On view through January 2, 2011
15 West 16thStreet, NYC
More information
DAVID S. WYMAN INSTITUTE FOR HOLOCAUST STUDIES
Students Against the Holocaust: Jewish and Christian Seminary Students
Who Spoke Out Against the Nazi Genocide Wednesday, November 10, 2010 - Session One, 1:00 - 3:15, featuring
Professor David S. Wyman
Union Theological Seminary
Broadway & 120thStreet, NYC - Session Two, 3:40 - 5:30 PM
Jewish Theological Seminary of America
Broadway & 122ndStreet, NYC More information
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Jewish Community Relations Council
2100
Arch Street
Philadelphia,
PA 19103
215.832.0536
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Save the Dates for JCRC Programming
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Mordechai
Anielewicz Creative Arts Competition for
Grades 7-12
Deadline:
March 1, 2011
Submit all entries to:
Jewish Community Relations Council
2100
Arch Street
Philadelphia,
PA 19103
For general questions, contact Beth Razin,
215-832-0536.
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For Holocaust Education consultation,
contact
Josey G. Fisher,
215-832-0862.
Further information and links to resource materials. |
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Youth Symposium
for Grades 9-12
at St. Joseph's University, Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel and West Chester University -
March 2011,
specific dates to be announced.
Yom
HaShoah Community Commemoration
Sunday, May 1, 2011,
1:00 PM
16th and the Parkway
"Dorothy
Freedman Memorial Conversation with a Survivor" program for middle and high school students will precede the
ceremony.
For questions regarding all JCRC Holocaust programs
and for requests from Speaker's Bureau, contact
Beth Razin, 215-832-0536. |
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The Gerda and Kurt Klein Foundation
Service Learning Opportunity
| "You are the Messengers to
a Time I Will Not See:" A Conversation with Gerda Weissman Klein
The first videoconference will be on November 16, 2010, from
1:00 - 2:00 PM.
Additional dates and more information
| The Gerda and Kurt Klein Foundation
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Links to
Kristallnacht
Resources
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Kristallnacht: The Night of Broken Glass - Selected Resources
Jewish Life in Pre-War Germany: Readings for the Anniversary of Kristallnacht,
November 9-10, 1938 |
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Free Resource for Educators
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THE FÜHRER GIVES THE JEWS A CITY
is the unfinished propaganda film created by filmmaker/prisoner
Kurt Gerron at the
demand of the Nazi authorities in Theresienstadt to prepare for the
Red Cross
visit of
June 23, 1944.
It is now available free for educational and scholarly use
(shipping and handling costs only).
23 minutes
More information |
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Compiled and edited by Josey G. Fisher, Holocaust Education Consultant.
Designed by
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