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2025 Seminars in Motion
Our 2025 seminars are underway across the United States, Mexico, and Europe!
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International Seminars Inspire Educators Around the Globe
Our International Seminars are currently taking place across Europe and, for the first time, Mexico. We are also pleased to announce the addition of our Moldova Seminar in 2025. Read More.
US Seminars Kick Off in New Orleans, Louisiana
Our 2025 US Seminars have commenced! Our Seminars take place this year in Louisiana, New Mexico, Michigan, Kentucky, Pennsylvania, New York (Long Island), New York (City), Virginia, and Minnesota. Read More.
Transnational Seminar Takes Place in Dachau, Germany
30 dedicated educators from 13 European countries came together for this year’s transnational European Leadership Seminar, “Teaching the Holocaust and Human Rights at Historical Sites,” which took place at Dachau in Germany on May 22-26. Read More.
Welcoming Staff and Board to New Roles at TOLI
We are excited and proud to announce dynamic changes within our team. Jennifer Lemberg will be transitioning into her new role as Senior Faculty Advisor. TOLI Teacher Leader Corey Harbaugh is officially joining TOLI as a Faculty Advisor. We also welcomed Board Members Alex Bruner and Kathrin Meyer to the TOLI team. Read More.
Best Practices in Holocaust Education
TOLI is recognized for its transformative professional development programs in Holocaust studies and human rights education, offering in-person seminars at no charge to educators. Participants learn how to teach the complex subject of the Holocaust through inquiry and writing and become a part of TOLI’s international network of Holocaust educators.
Impact Grants put TOLI seminar graduates’ new learning into action by funding innovative projects with their students. 2024 Impact Grants
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Why I Became a TOLI Teacher
The TOLI Impact Grant Program is very important in my professional activity. However, it’s not the money/grants that are most important, but the support received, the recommendations, and the openness that TOLI has towards education, culture, history, and the future of our students.
Livia Ghiurcuta
5-Year Impact Grant Recipient
Romania
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Holocaust-themed artworks from students across the globe 2025 ART EXHIBITION
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Recorded Programs
TOLI presents live and virtual programs, featuring scholars, writers, journalists, and other professionals on topics relating to our mission of Holocaust education, human rights education, countering antisemitism and racism, and strengthening democracy and pluralism. They’re free and open to the public. View all Recorded Programs here.
Remembering Toshimi
We are so saddened by the sudden and tragic loss of Holocaust educator, Toshimi Abe-Janiga of Palm Beach, Florida.
It was an honor to have Toshimi participate at TOLI’s first seminar in Vilnius, Lithuania, in Oct. 2019, where she spoke about the life and legacy of Japanese diplomat, Chiune Sugihara, who saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust by providing them with transit visas. Toshimi created the Holocaust Legacy Project to teach the lessons of Sugihara’s courageous actions to students in the US, Japan, and Lithuania.
Like Sugihara, Toshimi was an inspiration to people she touched – students, teachers, parents, and so many in the TOLI network. May her memory be blessed.
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In Memory of Assia Raberman, Holocaust Survivor and Beloved TOLI Mentor
Assia Raberman – who lost almost her entire family in the Holocaust, survived as a “hidden child” in Poland and, in recent years, was a beloved speaker and mentor at TOLI seminars – died in March in Haifa, Israel. She was 96 years old.
“Assia was an inspirational figure, not only for my family, but for the many teachers she touched in the TOLI network,” said Mark Berez, President of TOLI and Assia’s nephew. “She believed in the power of education, to never forget but not to lose hope.”
Read MoreYour Donation Makes A Difference
Donations to TOLI allow teachers to attend our seminars at no cost and provide them with impact grants to support their classroom projects. To date, these grants have reached over 47,000 students, with nearly 10,000 in eight countries last year.
Grants support research, field trips, and multimedia projects that help students learn about the Holocaust and human rights.