This past November, The Olga Lengyel Institute (TOLI) and the Memorial Library offered an interactive workshop at the annual meeting of the National Writing Project (NWP), held in Atlanta, Georgia.

The session, […]

Lisa Muller, a participant in the Memorial Library’s 2011 New York Summer Seminar, always knew she would become a teacher.  Though a few detours delayed her career after college, she found herself back in the […]

On June 22 – 27, 2013, experienced teachers selected from within our network participated in advance training developed to help them plan new Satellite Seminars in California, Georgia, Michigan, North Carolina, […]

Five educators from our network presented at the National Writing Project (NWP) Annual Meeting in Boston in November of 2013 as part of a panel entitled “Teaching about the Holocaust and Genocide: 21st Century […]

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As you read Sondra’s book, please pause at least two times to record your thoughts, responses, questions or queries. If it fits, copy out a passage that speaks to you. Write about your own reactions or tell your […]

In the spring of 2012, Paula Mercier (’10) of Kearsage Regional Middle School, New Hampshire, took her students on a trip to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Several of them were inspired to mount the […]

At the 2013 Urban Sites Network Conference in Birmingham, Alabama, “Writers of Social Justice: How One Pen Can Change the World,” past participants Paige Cole (’09), Lisa Hall (’09) of Georgia and Sandi Robertson […]

The Memorial Library is saddened to announce the untimely death of Kathy Carlisle, who passed away on December 8. The Library mourns her passing and extends sympathies to Kathy’s family and friends at this […]

Summer seminar participant Mark DeLaRosa reflects, “one of my favorite Jewish sayings is, ‘an enemy is a friend you haven’t met yet,’” and his teaching practice reflects this philosophy through outreach to other […]

With the support of a mini-grant from the Memorial Library as well as other funding, 2009 summer seminar participant led 22 students from York College, Nebraska on a trip that included visits to relevant sites in […]

In an interview with the New York Daily News, Sondra Perl and Jennifer Lemberg discuss the meaning of leading eighteen teachers from across the United States on a trip sponsored by the Memorial Library. Read the article here.

In a radio interview for KFOR in Lincoln, NE, Jane Connealy, Katie Elsener, and Tom Seib, leaders of the Nebraska satellite seminar There is No Future Without Memory: Exploring the Holocaust and Social Justice, […]

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, […]

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 […]