COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING
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Greater Philadelphia's Annual Memorial Ceremony for the Six Million Jewish Martyrs
1:00 PM - Sunday, April 27, 2014
16th and the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA
James E. Young, Director of the Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, University of Massachusetts Amherst
"Dorothy Freedman Memorial Conversation with a Survivor"
Breakfast program for middle and high school students will precede the Ceremony, from 10:00 AM-12:30 PM
Jewish Community Services Building, 2100 Arch Street, Philadelphia, PA
"Freud, Moses and the Holocaust", a lecture by Professor Eli Zaretsky
Sunday, April 27, 2014 -- 4:00 PM
Temple Beth Zion-Beth Israel
300 South 18th St.
Philadelphia, PA
For additional information and registration, see:
"Remembering Tragedy: Commemoration and Memorialization in America"
A discussion with Professor James E. Young, of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and Alice M. Greenwald of National Memorial & Museum
Sunday, April 27, 2014 -- 4:00 PM
National Museum of American Jewish History
101 South Independence Mall East
For additional information, see:
Philadelphia Jewish Film Festival features "Closed Season"
Monday, April 28, 2014 -- 7:30 PM
Gershman Y, Pine and Broad Streets, Philadelphia
Bruno (Max Mauff), a young German entomology student, arrives in Israel with a letter from his recently deceased mother to Avi, a German-Jewish kibbutznik, who Bruno believes to be his biological father, Albert. Initially hesitant, Albert (Rami Heuberger) soon reveals the dramatic circumstances leading to Bruno's birth just after World War II.
"The Legacies of Saint John XXIII and Saint John Paul II"
Thursday, May 1, 2014 7:00 - 8:30 PM 
President's Lounge, Campion Hall
Open to the public.
A special panel discussion of Pope Francis' homily at the April 27th canonizations.
Facilitated by Dr. Philip A. Cunningham and
Dr. Adam L. Gregerman. For further details, click here.
 ADL's Walk Against Hate
Sunday, May 18, 2014 1:00-4:00 P.M.
Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive/West River Drive, Philadelphia
Further information and registration.
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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES - SUMMER 2014
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Gratz College
Jewish Poland Travel-Study Tour
Led by Dr. Michael Steinlauf, Gratz College Scholar of East European Jewish History, and guides from the Taube Center for the Renewal of Jewish Life in Poland. Academic credit available.
June 24 - July 6, 2014
Deposits due by January 31, 2014
Click here for details and application or contact Mindy Blechman, 215-635-7300, ext. 154.
Gratz College Summer Institute
Melrose Park, PA
"Teaching the Holocaust" with Josey G. Fisher
July 20-25, 2014
"Holocaust Art" with Rabbi Lance J. Sussman
July 27-August 1, 2014
For further information, additional online summer courses, and registration contact Mindy Blechman.
Holocaust and Jewish Resistance
Teacher's Program
July 1-19, 2014
Intensive program for high school teachers starting in Washington, D.C. and traveling to Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic.
Application deadline March 14, 2014
Further information and application.
Centropa Summer Academy
Vienna and Sarajevo
July 9-17, 2014
For teachers, pedagogical experts and museum educators.
Jan Karski Institute for Holocaust Education
Summer Certificate Program
July 13-19, 2014
For high school teachers, held on campus of Georgetown University, Washington, DC, taught by Georgetown faculty
and broad range of guest lecturers, including access to museums and government agencies. Fulfills state requirements for public, private and parochial schools. Competitive admission.
Click for information.
Application deadline April 19, 2014 - click here to apply.
USHMM
Belfer National Conference for Educators
English Lan guage Arts Section:
July 13-15
Social Studies Section: July 16-18
For teachers of middle school, high school and community college faculty.
Click for further information and online registration
Museum Teacher Fellowship Program
July 20-24, 2014
For Holocaust educators of grades 7-12 who have had five years or more experience. Competitive admission.
Applications due February 7, 2014. Click here to apply.
Bearing Witness
Paoli, PA
July 29 - August 1, 2014
Residential professional development program for Catholic-school educators, grades 6-12, focusing on the history of Catholic-Jewish relations and the Holocaust. Co-sponsored by the ADL and the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
Application deadline April 4, 2014
For further information, contact Dr. Carol Cary at the Office of Catholic Education or Randi Boyette at ADL.
Yad Vashem
The 9th International Conference on Holocaust Education - "Through Our Own Lens: Reflecting on the Holocaust from Generation to Generation"
July 7-10, 2014
Summer Seminar for Educators in Jewish Frameworks
July 21-30, 2014
For further information, click on "email."
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Philadelphia:
Against the Odds: American Jews & the Rescue of Europe's Refugees 1933 - 1941
 Museum of Jewish Heritage
Online introduction to the exhibit
"Degenerate Art: The Attack on Modern Art in Nazi Germany, 1937"
March 13 - June 30, 2014
Neue Gallerie,
New York City
Further information
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2100 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
215.832.0536
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National Days of Remembrance
April 27 - May 4, 2014
Yom HaShoah
Monday, April 28, 2014
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Mordechai Anielewicz
Creative Arts Competition
for Grades 7-12
Award Ceremony: Monday, June 2, 2014
Exhibition of Visual Entries:
May 29 - June 12, 2014
Moore College of Art and Design
20th Street and the Parkway
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For further information on these community programs, information regarding all JCRC Holocaust programs, and for requests for speakers, contact Beth Razin, 215-832-0536.
For Holocaust Education consultation, contact Josey G. Fisher, 215-832-0862.
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New Online Resources for
Commemoration and Classroom
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USHMM
2014 Days of Remembrance
"Confronting the Holocaust: American Responses"
For resources relating to this year's theme and to request Days of Remembrance CD/DVD Planning Guide, click here.
The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme in partnership with the USHMM
"The Path to Nazi Genocide"
Excellent 38-minute introductory film using historical footage; includes full transcript and link to request DVD. Additional links to timeline, Holocaust encyclopedia and related maps. For advanced students, with some excerpts appropriate for middle school and above. Click here.
Southern Poverty Law Center
One Survivor Remembers, award-winning HBO documentary of Gerda Weissmann Klein's story of survival, is available online through the efforts of the SPLC and Teaching Tolerance. 41 minutes. Related lesson plan through Teaching Tolerance for grades 6-12.
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SUGGESTED READING FOR STUDENTS
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Is it Night or Day?
by Fern Schumer Chapman (2011 Bank Street Award), Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Twelve-year-old Edith escapes Nazi Germany in 1938, one of the 1200 children rescued by Americans, yet she is still challenged by antisemitism, referred to as an "enemy alien," and haunted by unknown fate of her parents. Grade 6+
My Family for the War
by Anne C. Voorhoeve, Dial, 2012, translated from the German by Tammi Reichel.
Protestant eleven-year-old Ziska flees Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport because of her grandparents' Jewish heritage. Placed with an Orthodox Jewish family in London for the war years, Ziska becomes conflicted over her religious identity and growing attachment to her foster parents.
Grade 9+
The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi by Neal Bascomb, Arthur A. Levine Books, 2013. Adaptation for younger readers of author's well-researched adult non-fiction Hunting Eichmann
(Houghton, 2009).
Grade 8+
Odette's Secrets
by Maryann Macdonald, Bloomsbury USA, 2013. Novelization in verse of the life of French hidden child Odette Meyers (Odette's autobiography is Doors to Madame Marie and she appears in the classic educational film "Courage to Care"). Grade 6+
The Tattered Prayer Book (Mom's Choice Awards Recipient) by Ellen Bari and illustrated by Avi Katz. Gihon Rivers Press, 2013.
Young girl finds a burnt and tattered prayer book at her grandmother's house and discovers her family's German Jewish history for the first time. Recommended for adult to read to elementary school-age child as an introduction to the Holocaust.
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SUGGESTED READING FOR ADVANCED STUDENTS
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Hitler's Furies: German Women in the Nazi Killing Fields
by Wendy Lower, Houghton, Mifflin Harcourt, 2013. As consultant to the USHMM, Lower has broadened previous research of German women's participation in the genocide, using first-person testimony to illustrate both professional and personal culpability and brutality. 2013 National Book Award finalist.
Pere Marie-Benoit and Jewish Rescue: How a French Priest Together with Jewish Friends Saved Thousands during the Holocaust by Susan Zuccotti, Indiana University Press, 2013. Detailed history of courageous French Capuchin priest who worked with Jewish-Christian rescue networks in France and Italy to save Jews, later maintaining wartime Jewish friendships and his commitment to Jewish-Christian reconciliation.
The Stones Weep:
Teaching the
Holocaust through a Survivor's Art
by Miriam M. Bisk and Margaret G. Lincoln, Gihon River Press, 2013.
A highly original book for Holocaust educators, utilizing the artwork of the Polish survivor/author as basis for lesson plans that meet State and National Core Curriculum Standards.
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