Paths to Healing: Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust and Native American Histories for Civic Engagement

Date: November 6-9, 2025

Location: Spokane, Washington

APPLICATION DEADLINE: October 10, 2025

Space limited to 25 participants. $50 attendance fee due upon acceptance to the program.

November 6, 2025 (Zoom presentation)

4:00pm Pacific Time

Free Zoom presentation by Rebecca Clarren, author of The Cost of Free Land: Jews, Lakota, and an American Inheritance

November 7-9, 2025 (In-person workshop)

Held at Temple Beth Shalom and Spokane Falls Community College, with visits to historical sites of significance with a Tribal Elder from the Spokane Tribe of Indians.

  • 24 clock hours available for WA teachers
  • Explores cultural memory, identity, pedagogy and the interconnectedness of shared histories

      

Leaders

  • Paul Regelbrugge

    Paul is the Director of Education at the Holocaust Center for Humanity. Previously, he was an attorney before teaching in Chicago, Buffalo, and Spokane and Kent, Washington. Paul has received degrees from Kalamazoo College, University of Detroit Mercy and Michigan State University College of Law, and his teaching certificate from Northwestern University. He is a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Teacher Fellow, a Powell Teacher Fellow, and an Alfred Lerner Fellow. He is also the author of The Yellow Star House: The Remarkable Story of One Boy’s Survival in a Protected House in Hungary (Lulu, 2019).