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Dear Holocaust Educators,
We want to introduce you to the Consortium of Holocaust Educators, a newly formed group representing Holocaust-related programs in the Greater Philadelphia area. Connect to the Consortium's website to see details of each program and watch for an active calendar of events sponsored throughout the community.
Josey G. Fisher, Editor
Holocaust Education Consultant
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COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING
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International Opera Theater
Brundibar  and the Children of Theresienstadt
Ibrahim Theater,
International House 3701 Chestnut Street, PhiladelphiaSchool performances with educator's resource guide available - February 28, March 2, March 4 - 10:00 AMPublic performances - February 26 and March 6 - 3:00 PM For further information, contact brundibar.iot@gmail.com or http://internationaloperatheater.org/iot/brundibar/. Philadelphia Film Festival 
Killing Kasztner The Gershman Y 401 South Broad Street Philadelphia Sunday, March 27, 5:00 PM Performance followed by Skype Q &A with director, Gaylen Ross. Documentary detailing controversy over Rezsö Kasztner, Hungarian Jew who negotiated with Adolf Eichmann to save 1700 Jews during the Holocaust. Newly uncovered trial documents and eyewitness interviews shed light on the libel trial in Israel which condemned him as "the man who sold his soul to the Devil." Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors Island on Bird Street  Gratz College Sunday, April 3, 2:00 PM Film version of Uri Orlev's classic tale of a boy alone in the destroyed Warsaw Ghetto. Followed by a Q&A session with a Holocaust survivor. Grade 7 to adult. PBS Television Premier A Film Unfinished Tuesday, May 3, 10:00 PM Classic Nazi propaganda film, shot in the Warsaw Ghetto in May 1942, is supplemented by recently discovered footage, delineating scenes elaborately staged for propaganda purposes. For advanced viewers.
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| ONLINE RESOURCES FOR COMMEMORATION AND CLASSROOM |
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
2011 Theme - Justice and Accountability in the Face of Genocide: What Have We Learned?
Further information
Click here for details regarding theme and free CD/DVD Days of Remembrance planning.
Yad Vashem International School for Holocaust Studies
Auschwitz-Birkenau:
Educational Environment for Teachers
Further information
Click here for additional materials, guidelines for commemoration and links to age-appropriate, multi-disciplinary lesson plans.
Click here to register for regular updates on new educational resources and to subscribe to Teaching the Legacy, Yad Vashem's e-newsletter. See most recent issue and scroll down on left to register. Holocaust and United Nations Outreach Programme Women and the Holocaust: Courage and Compassion More information Online study guide and video testimonies detail the impact of the Holocaust on six women's lives, their adaptation and resistance. Created in partnership with USC Shoah Foundation and Yad Vashem. Grade 9+
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 Black Radishes by Susan Lynn Meyer. NY: Delacorte Books for Young Readers, 2010.
Nazi occupation of France through the eyes of a young Jewish boy attempting to flee to safety with his family. Story inspired by experience of author's father. Grades 6-8.
Hidden o n the Mountain: Stories of Children Sheltered from the Nazis in Le Chambon by Karen Gray Ruelle and Deborah Durland Desaix, NY: Holiday House, 2006.
First-person accounts of Jewish refugee children saved by the Protestant community of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon in Nazi-occupied south-central France. Supplementary resource to film Weapons of the Spirit. Grades 6-10.
 Is It Night or Day? By Fern Schumer Chapman. NY: Farrar, Strauss and Giroux, 2010.
A young girl's flight to U.S. in 1938 to escape Nazi persecution, inspired by the story of the author's mother. Highlights immigration experiences of separation, prejudice, and adaptation. Grades 6-10.
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
SUMMER 2011
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Gratz College Summer Institute
Philadelphia
Children of the Nazi Era
Instructor, Josey G. Fisher
July 10-15, 2011
The Holocaust and Genocide in Film
Instructor, Dr. Michael Steinlauf
July 17 - 22, 2011
Intensive 3-credit graduate courses which may be applied toward Certificate in Holocaust and Genocide Studies. Tuition discount for full-time teachers.
For more information and details of online courses in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, contact Mindy Blechman, 215-635-7300 x 154.
USHMM - Washington, D.C. 2011 Arthur and Rochelle Belfer National Conference for Educators English/Language Arts: July 10-12, 2011 Social Studies: July 13-15, 2011 Annual conference for teachers of grades 7-12 and community college faculty with less than five years of experience Deadline for application June 17, 2011 Further information Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teachers' Program Washington, D.C., Poland, Germany, and Israel July 3-24, 2011 Summer study program for secondary school teachers who implement Holocaust studies in their classroom. Features study at the USHMM and Yad Vashem as well as sites of death camps, Warsaw Ghetto, and Jüdisches Museum Berlin. Due March 25, 2011 - rolling admission Further information and application Yad Vashem - Jerusalem Teaching the Shoah and Antisemitism: Summer International Seminar July 10-28, 2011 Further information
Click here for application.
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OUR PARENTS, OURSELVES,
AND THE SHOAH:
An Expressive Writing Workship for Anyone Whose Parent(s) Survived the Holocaust
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Co-sponsored by the Sons & Daughters of Holocaust Survivors and the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center March 6, 1:00-3:30 Congregation Rodeph Shalom 615 N. Broad Street, Philadelphia Further information and registration |
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Gerda Weissmann Klein
receives
Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Gerda  Weissmann Klein - survivor, author, civil rights activist - has received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Nation's highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors.
Click here for further information and new resources from the Klein Foundation.
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Jewish Community Relations Council
2100
Arch Street
Philadelphia,
PA 19103
215.832.0536
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Youth Symposium on the Holocaust for Grades 9-12
If you missed the February 14 extended deadline but would still like to bring students, contact Beth Razin, 215-832-0536.
Tuesday, March 8 St. Joseph's University Thursday, March 10 West Chester University Tuesday, March 15 Germantown Jewish Centre Thursday, March 24 Reform Congregation Keneseth Israel *******************
Mordechai Anielewicz Creative Arts Competition for
Grades 7-12
Deadline:
Tuesday, March 1
Submit all entries to:
Jewish Community Relations Council
2100 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
Further information and links to resource materials
For Holocaust Education consultation, contact Josey G. Fisher, 215-832-0862. ******************* Yom HaShoah Holocaust Remembrance Day 27 Nissan ~ May 1 2011 National Days of Remembrance May 1 - 8 *******************
Philadelphia
Holocaust Memorial Ceremony
Sunday, May 1
1:00 PM
16th and the Parkway *******************
"Dorothy Freedman Memorial Conversation
with a Survivor"
Breakfast program for middle and high school students preceding the Memorial Ceremony 10 AM-12:30 PM Moore College of Art and Design 20th Street and the Parkway ******************* For questions regarding all JCRC Holocaust programs and for requests for speakers, contact Beth Razin, 215-832-0536 or visit our JCRC Holocaust Programs web page. |
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Jewish Life in Eastern Europe
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Centropa
Oral histories, films, photos, documents as well as lesson plans for using primary sources.
Yad Vashem
Online Exhibitions:
"A Jewish Community in the Carpathian Mountains - The Story of Munkács"
Click to view.
"Monastir: The Story of a Sephardic Community in Macedonia"
Click to view.
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"19 km from Auschwitz: The Story of Trzebinia"
Click to view.
"On One Clear Day:
The Story of Jewish Wolbrom"
Click to view.
"The Story of the Jewish Community
in Mir"
Click to view.
Lesson Plan:
To Remember Their Faces: Teacher's Guide Using Prewar Holocaust Photographs
Grades 6+
Click here.
YIVO Institute for
Jewish Research
"People of a Thousand Towns": The Online Catalog of Photographs of Jewish Life in Prewar Eastern Europe
Click to view.
"When These Streets Heard Yiddish" History and culture of Eastern European Jews, including guidelines for thematic web tours.Click to view.
Click here for downloadable curriculum.
YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe
Click to view.
Extensive collection of articles, primary sources, and maps covering history and culture of Eastern European Jews from settlement in the region to the present.
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Compiled and edited by Josey G. Fisher, Holocaust Education Consultant.
Designed by
Bonni Kraus.
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