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March 25, 2012
Dear family and friends, This is the first entry in our ten-day journey to Poland and Israel. Each day two HEN teachers will give highlights of what’s happening. This first post is being written by Sondra Perl, Jennifer Lemberg, and Erica Kaufman, all of whom are the leaders of the…March 14, 2012
In March 2012, seventeen teachers from the Holocaust Educators Network will travel together on a journey to Poland and Israel sponsored by the Memorial Library. In a group including Sondra Perl, Jennifer Lemberg, and members of the Board of Directors, we will spend ten days visiting historical sites related to…
November 16, 2011
Diane Williams, a teacher from ANSER Junior High in Boise, Idaho, first began working with the Idaho Human Rights Education Center (IHREC) when she received a Fullbright to study South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission and its commitment to restorative justice, and the IHREC provided funding to help document…November 14, 2011
Carrie McCallum, member of the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center, was selected to participate in the 2011 Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teacher’s Program. As part of this three-week program, McCallum visited the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, Yad Vashem in Israel, and concentration camps in Poland…November 9, 2011
District Bilingual Coordinator Lori Menning welcomed Henry Golde, Holocaust survivor and author of Ragdolls to her school in New London, WI. Mr. Golde presented to an audience that included bilingual students, Culture Club members, and faculty. Read more about his visit here.
November 3, 2011
Enithie Hunter and Lisa Light, 2010 Memorial Library summer seminar participants, share a passion for finding the most effective ways to teach about one of the darkest atrocities of the 20th-century, which translates into their work as teacher consultants for the Jacksonville State University Writing Project (JSUWP). This summer, Hunter…September 28, 2011
Students in an elective African American Literature class were excited to meet with 99-year old Lotte Frankel, who survived the Holocaust in hiding in Yugoslavia and France. Debra Maller arranged the visit, Frankel’s first time speaking about her experience in public, with the support of the New Jersey Commission…August 10, 2011
Three former summer seminar participants led a six-day satellite seminar at Western Michigan University in August of 2011. The program was attended by teachers from across the state with the support of every Writing Project site in Michigan. Read the article here.June 6, 2011
As part of their study of the Holocaust, McConnellsburg Middle School students heard from Melitta Stein, who was born in Czechoslovakia and was the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust. Read the article here.February 23, 2011
Memorial Library founder Olga Lengyel’s gripping testimony, Five Chimneys, has been released in a Spanish-language edition for the first time since its original publication in 1947. Read an article about it (text in Spanish) here.