Teaching about the Holocaust
A Workshop for Pre-Service and Practicing Teachers
Workshop: 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Survivor Testimony: 4:15 p.m. - 5:45 p.m.
Location: UNO Thompson Alumni Center
Workshop Fee: $30 ($15 for Pre-Service Educators)
including lunch and snacks
Registration Deadline Extended: September 13, 2010
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Participants will explore historical content, current methodologies, rationale, literature and technological resources for teaching the history of the Holocaust. Highlights of the conference include presentations from a Holocaust Survivor and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Educator(USHMM), Christina Chavarria. Experienced Nebraska teachers, who are members of the Nebraska Holocaust Education Consortium, will present model lessons.
Bea Karp, Child Survivor of the Holocaust will give her testimony at First Christian Church from 4:15 –5:45 at the conclusion of the workshop. This segment of the program is open to the public.
Registered workshop participants are eligible to join a trip to Washington, D.C. and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on October 12-14. The cost of the trip is $525 with possible scholarship opportunities. Registration for the trip to Washington, D.C. is due by August 31, 2010. For those interested, please contact holocaust@jewishomaha.org
Sponsors for this Event:
The Nebraska Holocaust Education Consortium
a committee of The Institute for Holocaust Education
University of Nebraska at Omaha
College of Education
The University of Nebraska at Omaha
Natan and Hanna Schwalb
Center for Israel and Jewish Studies Center
College of Saint Mary
The Shirley and Leonard Goldstein Supporting Foundation
