We Remember: Exploring the Holocaust and Antisemitism (A Seminar for Catholic School Educators)

Leaders

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  Corey Harbaugh

  Corey Harbaugh retired as a school curriculum administrator in 2025 to move into Holocaust education full time as Faculty Advisor for The Olga Lengyel Institute and Curriculum Specialist for the Anne Frank Center at The University of South Carolina. He served as a member of the Governor’s Council on Holocaust & Genocide Education and co-authored the model curriculum in support of Public Act 170 of 2016 that mandates Holocaust and genocide education in Michigan schools. Corey helped organize and co-facilitate the pilot of this seminar in 2024 at the Cathedral of Christ the Light in Oakland, CA.

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  Donna Tarney

  Donna Tarney is the Education Specialist at the Anne Frank Center at USC, Columbia. Using  Anne’s story, she helps university students, school groups, and community organizations prepare themselves to stand up and speak out against hate in all its forms. Donna also facilitates virtual and in person workshops to help people recognize bias and prejudice in their own lives and work toward appreciation of diversity. Prior to this, Donna was the Education and Outreach Specialist at the Stan Greenspon Holocaust and Social Justice Education Center in Charlotte, NC. In that capacity, Donna created and facilitated Holocaust and human rights programs for schools and community groups throughout North and South Carolina. Donna taught Theology, History, and Holocaust courses for thirteen years at Charlotte Catholic High School, with an emphasis on lessons that would help her students make informed choices to build strong communities. Donna holds a master’s degree in religious education from Loyola University and earned a Certificate in Holocaust Studies from Georgetown University. She attended TOLI NY in 2014, and has been co-leading our Summer Satellite Program for eight years, including last year’s pilot seminar of We Remember.

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  Brendan Murphy

  Brendan Murphy is an award-winning educator and sought-after presenter; Brendan is the founding director of the Bearing Witness Institute for Interreligious and Ecumenical Dialogue at Marist School. He has taught history at Marist since 1994 and continually demonstrates for his students and colleagues a strong commitment to fostering understanding and collaboration among diverse communities of faith. Murphy is a thought leader on religious solidarity and an advocate for combating hate and prejudice by drawing communities together. His contributions to education and interfaith dialogue are widely recognized. Murphy has received numerous awards, including the Outstanding Educator Award from the Anne Frank Center in New York, the ADL’s Abe Goldstein Human Relations and Unsung Hero Awards, on the state level, with the Distinguished Service Award from the Georgia Independent School Association and twice with the Georgia Outstanding Educator of the Year Award from the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust. He also has been recognized as Teacher of the Year by the University of Notre Dame.  Murphy is actively involved in developing educational initiatives and created a compelling “History and the Holocaust” seminar at Marist that is complemented by co-curricular international field trips to sites in Europe that were significant during the Holocaust.

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  Oren Stier

  Oren Stier’s primary area of interest is Holocaust Studies and, more broadly, Jewish Cultural Studies, with a particular focus on the contemporary period and present-day Jewish life and thought. His research centers on Holocaust memory and representation. He is the author of Committed to Memory: Cultural Mediations of the Holocaust (University of Massachusetts Press, 2003), which examines how contemporary media shape institutionalized Holocaust memory, and Holocaust Icons: Symbolizing the Shoah in History and Memory (Rutgers University Press, 2015), which explores the historical and memorial contexts of key Holocaust images and ideas. From January to August 2004, he was a fellow at the Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. His additional research interests include Hasidism, South African Judaism—shaped by his years living and teaching in Cape Town (1996–1998)—and Religion and Violence. He co-edited Religion, Violence, Memory, and Place (Indiana University Press, 2006) and has published widely in leading academic journals and edited volumes. He teaches broadly in Jewish Studies, with a current emphasis on the modern period. His courses include The Holocaust, Holocaust Memorials, Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Cinema, Jewish Mysticism, Judaism, Introduction to Jewish Cultures, Jews, Sex, and Gender, as well as Violence and the Sacred and World Religions. He is active in community education in the greater Miami area, directs the Jewish Studies Certificate and the FIU Holocaust Studies Initiative, and served as Graduate Program Director in Religious Studies from 2007 to 2016.