COMMUNITY VIRTUAL PROGRAMMING

The 2021 Arnold & Esther Tuzman Memorial Teach-In of Gratz College

March 7, 2021, 1:00 p.m.
Featuring Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning artist, illustrator and author of Maus. Breakout sessions include workshop for high school and college teachers. For further details and registration, see https://zcu.io/Nh9W

The 51^st Annual Scholars’ Conference on the Holocaust and the Churches

March 7, 2021
Featuring presentations by:

Yehuda Bauer, Hebrew University and Yad Vashem – 12:00 p.m.
Mehnaz Afridi, Manhattan College – 3:00 p.m.
Pieter Kohnstam, survivor, Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect – 6:00 p.m.

For further information and pre-registration see 51st Annual Scholars Conference

American Society for Yad Vashem:
“History Repeats Itself: Making Sure Our Students are Listening”

March 7, 2021, 9:00 - 11:00 a.m.
Featuring Elisha Wiesel, son of Elie Wiesel z”l, and Shulamit Imber, Director of Pedagogy, International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem. To register, see https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwpc-2qqz0jHdKWLZKvdSsuAHdaYTMqGWTQ

Temple Judea Museum and the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center (HAMEC):
“Journey into Darkness....Heal with the Beauty of Life”

March 19, 2021
Opening of ongoing virtual art exhibit featuring renowned artists Harry Somers and Frank Root and their relationship with the Holocaust. From the sponsors’ collections.

***See HAMEC’s newly available virtual museum at HAMEC Virtual Museum

Mid-Atlantic-Eurasia Business Council:
"Celebration of the Life and Accomplishments of Carl Lutz”

March 30, 2021, 5:30 p.m.
Honoring the WWII Vice-Consul at the Swiss Embassy in Budapest who saved over 50,000 Jews during his tenure. The first event of year-long programming, this webinar will showcase his life and legacy and preview the film “Dangerous Diplomacy”. For further details and registration, see Carl Lutz Celebration March 30

Liberation75 Conference

May 4 - 9, 2021
Global gathering of survivors, descendants, educators to commemorate the 75^th anniversary of the liberation. Performances, films, keynote addresses and breakout sessions. For further details and registration, see www.liberation75.org

***For listings of Ongoing Webinar Opportunities, please see the Fall 2020 newsletter: JCRC Fall 2020 Holocaust Education Newsletter

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SUMMER VIRTUAL PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR EDUCATORS

National Endowment for Humanities at Kean College:
“The Search for Humanity after Atrocity”

June 17 - 30, 2021
Application deadline March 1, 2021

Two-week seminar for college and university educators. For more information, see NEHSeminar 2021 or call seminar leader Dr. Dennis Klein at 210-783-5393

2021 Belfer Conference, U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

July 7 - 9
Belfer Conference for secondary school and community college faculty

July 28 - 30
Belfer Alumni Next Steps National Conference for alumni only

August 2 - 3
Belfer Conference for Holocaust Education Partners -- school administrators, curriculum coordinators, librarians and more

For further details and registration, see Belfer 2021 or contact belferconference@ushmm.org

Olga Lengyel Institute (TOLI):
“Teaching the Holocaust and Human Rights”

For updated information regarding in-person or virtual 5-day summer programming, see TOLI Summer 2021

Appalachian State University – Martin & Doris Rosen Summer Symposium:
“Children in the Holocaust”

July 18 - 23, 2021
Presenters include Dr. Deborah Dwork (CUNY), Dr. Patricia Heberer Rice (USHMM), and Dr. Michael Berenbaum (American Jewish University). CEUs available.

For more information and application, see Applichian State Summer 2021: Children in the Holocaust

For questions and preliminary program, contact holocaust@appstate.edu

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Suggested Books for Middle School

We Had to Be Brave: Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport by Deborah Hopkinson. Scholastic Focus, 2020. Personal accounts of children rescued through the Kindertransport, including age-appropriate background of antisemitism and Nazi ideology. Sydney Taylor Award.

Letters from Cuba by Ruth Behar. Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Young Readers Group, 2020. Based on her grandmother’s immigration experience, the author traces 11-year-old Esther’s journey from Poland to Cuba to meet her father. Esther’s letters to her family in Poland chronicle her experience while she uses her sewing skills to earn money for their passage. Sydney Taylor Award.

Chance: Escape from the Holocaust by Uri Shulevitz. Farrar, Strauss & Giroux, 2020. Detailed memoir of author’s flight at age 4 with his parents from Warsaw to a detention camp near the White Sea in Russia and later to Turkestan. Illustrations by the author include originals from his harrowing childhood. New York Times Best Children’s Book.

The Blackbird Girls by Anne Blankman. Puffin Books, 2020. When two young girls are sent to Leningrad to escape the deadly effects of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear explosion, they confront their family biases and secret histories. Sidney Taylor Award.

JCRC COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING

Mordechai Anielewicz Creative Arts Competition

Students in grades 7-12 in the 5-counties of SE Pennsylvania are invited to submit original, creative responses to their Holocaust studies in the form of poetry, prose, painting, sculpture, music, dance and video. Entries due April 9, 2021.

To learn more: Mordechai Anielewicz Creative Arts Competition

For extensive resource list, see
Resources for Studying About the Holocaust grades 7-12

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Virtual Philadelphia Community Holocaust Memorial Ceremony

Sunday, April 11, 1:00 p.m.
Join the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia for candle lighting, music, readings and prayers at the annual Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony, in partnership with the Association of Jewish Holocaust Survivors of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Holocaust Remembrance Foundation.

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Philly3G
Philly3G is working to bring together the 3rd generation descendants (grandchildren) of Holocaust survivors with the intention of keeping their family histories alive in the Philadelphia area. Email stacyseltzer@gmail.com to add your email to their listserve and follow them on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Philly3G

ONLINE RESOURCES

Fortunoff Video Archive at Yale University
--- Where is our Homeland? Songs from Testimonies in the Fortunoff Video Archive, Volume One

--- Cry, My Heart, Cry! Songs from Testimonies, Volume Two

Music sung by survivors as part of their oral testimonies in the Fortunoff collection. Sound, lyrics and scores available through download. Historical introduction.

https://fortunoff.library.yale.edu/education/songs-from-testimonies/

USHMM
Complete sound and video recordings available from the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg in cooperation with the Memorial de la Shoah and the International Court of Justice.
Recordings from Nuremberg Tribunal

Suggested USHMM Lessons Plans
History Unfolded: Black Press Coverage of the Holocaust

USHMM Lesson Plans: Exploring Pre War Jewish Life

USHMM Lesson Plans: Exploring Holocaust-era Diaries

USHMM Lesson Plans: Americans and the Holocaust

For additional foundational lesson plans for teaching about the Holocaust, see
USHMM Teaching About the Holocaust

USHMM Overview of the Holocaust 2-Day Lesson Plan for grades 9-12

USHMM Overview of the Holocaust 4-Day Lesson Plan for grades 9-12

IWitness – USCShoah Foundation:
“A Conversation with Pinchas Gutter” – Dimensions in Testimony

Interactive dialogue with a survivor, previously available only in select museum settings, is now basis of online classroom project for grades 9-12. See IWitness: Pinchas Gutter

For more information about the Dimensions in Testimony project, see https://sfi.usc.edu/dit

Delet Portal

A Project of the of the Jewish Historical Institute in Poland and the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Institute
Access to the contents of the Ringelblum Archive, artwork, artifacts, photos and documents of the Jewish community in Poland. Includes lessons, workshops and virtual guided tours of exhibitions. Available in English. Delet Portal

Yad Vashem

“My Lost Childhood”: Children’s Homes for Holocaust Survivors
Online exhibition featuring seven children’s homes in post-war Poland, Hungary, the Netherlands, Germany, and France, describing their efforts to rehabilitate surviving children before their eventual emigration to Israel, the U.S., Canada, and Latin America.
Yad Vashem "My Lost Childhood"

YIVO

“Jewish Immigration to America”
Overview of immigration from 1870 through post-war period, describing aid organizations as well governmental restrictions, illustrated by documents, newspaper articles, and photos.

YIVO "Jewish Immigration to America"

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Suggested Books for High School and Advanced Readers

The Unanswered Letter: One Holocaust Family’s Desperate Plea for Help by Faris Cassell. Regnery Publishing, 2020. In 1939 Alfred Berger wrote a desperate letter from Vienna to an American stranger with the same last name. The newly discovered unanswered letter prompted the author to research the fate of the Berger family. National Jewish Book Award.

The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz: A True Story of Family and Survival by Jeremy Dronfield. Harper, 2020. After Gustav Kleinman and his 16-year old son Fritz were deported from Vienna to Buchenwald, Fritz chose to follow his father to Auschwitz. Based on Fritz’s secret diary and supported by extensive research.

The Unwanted: America, Auschwitz, and a Village Caught In Between by Michael Dobbs. USHMM, 2020.

National Jewish Book Award winner focusing on the experience of one small German town, Dobbs traces the nightmarish effort of Jewish families to break through pre-war and post-war bureaucracy to emigrate to the U.S.

The Last Million: Europe’s Displaced Persons from World War to Cold War by David Nasaw. Penguin Press, 2020. Superbly researched account of the desperate post-war plight of displaced persons combined with the world’s ongoing reluctance to accept refugees.

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Facebook announcement

As of January 2021, Facebook is redirecting its users searching for terms associated with the Holocaust, denial, or distortion to https://aboutholocaust.org/en, a website created in collaboration with the World Jewish Congress and UNESCO and available in 19 languages.

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