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Teaching about Contemporary Antisemitism - 3 Part Program
Teaching about Contemporary Antisemitism - 3 Part Program
All Day
Workshops
Nov 2, 2020 (All Day) Echoes & Reflections' online course, "Teaching about Contemporary Antisemitism", will give you the resources needed to deliver thoughtful, engaging, and historically accurate lessons on contemporary antisemitism and support students to recognize and combat antisemitism and hate in their schools and communities. Click for more info |
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Marking Kristallnacht through a Social Justice Lens
Marking Kristallnacht through a Social Justice Lens
12:00pm - 1:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Nov 9, 2020 at 12:00pm Ends Nov 9, 2020 at 1:00pm Join Echoes & Reflections for this webinar, delivered by an educator from Yad Vashem, about the November 9-10 event that made persecution of the Jews visible and undeniable. Click for more info |
The Night of Broken Glass through a Survivor's Eyes
The Night of Broken Glass through a Survivor's Eyes
8:30am - 9:00am
(30m)
Workshops
Starts Nov 10, 2020 at 8:30am Ends Nov 10, 2020 at 9:00am Join Holocaust survivor and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum volunteer Susan Warsinger to learn about her experience and the moment her parents decided to send her away to try to save her. Click for more info
Moving Memory to Action with Holocaust and Human Rights Education
Moving Memory to Action with Holocaust and Human Rights Education
9:30am - 10:30am
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Nov 10, 2020 at 9:30am Ends Nov 10, 2020 at 10:30am Join Echoes & Reflections for this special program with the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, a network of historic sites, museums, and memory initiatives that connects past struggles to today’s movements for human rights, educators will learn how to use the lessons of history as a vehicle for change and help students to mobilize memory into action. Click for more info
Exploring Genocides through Testimony
Exploring Genocides through Testimony
4:00pm - 5:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Nov 10, 2020 at 4:00pm Ends Nov 10, 2020 at 5:00pm During this webinar, led by a facilitator from the USC Shoah Foundation, participants will explore the Echoes & Reflections Teaching about Genocide resource, and gain tools for teaching about genocide using testimony and other primary source materials. Click for more info
History Highlights: The Development of Modern Human Rights
History Highlights: The Development of Modern Human Rights
7:00pm - 8:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Nov 10, 2020 at 7:00pm Ends Nov 10, 2020 at 8:00pm Select Tuesdays at 7:00 P.M. C.D.T. the History Highlights lecture series features Holocaust and human rights topics presented by Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum historians and educators. Click for more info |
Creating a Concentration Camp Society: How Governments Push for Mass Detention & How People Resist
Creating a Concentration Camp Society: How Governments Push for Mass Detention & How People Resist
11:00am - 12:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Nov 12, 2020 at 11:00am Ends Nov 12, 2020 at 12:00pm Join the Kupferberg Holocaust Center at Queensborough Community College, the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center, and Andrea Pitzer, author and journalist, for a discussion about what gives rise to camps, including why their use expanded exponentially in the last decade, and what strategies have been successful in opposing them. Click for more info
Chapman University Holocaust Art & Writing Contest
Chapman University Holocaust Art & Writing Contest
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Nov 12, 2020 at 2:00pm Ends Nov 12, 2020 at 3:00pm This program is being delivered in collaboration with the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education at Chapman University. This program will highlight key Echoes & Reflections resources and content to support the 22nd Annual Holocaust Art and Writing Contest theme, Sharing Strength: Sustaining Humanity. Click for more info |
Using the Pyramid of Hate to Expand Social Justice
Using the Pyramid of Hate to Expand Social Justice
11:00am - 12:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Nov 13, 2020 at 11:00am Ends Nov 13, 2020 at 12:00pm Using primary sources and visual history testimony from Echoes & Reflections, this webinar helps teachers and their students examine events at each stage of the pyramid and enhances their understanding of how the progression might have been interrupted during the period prior to and during the Holocaust. Click for more info |
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Distorting the Holocaust: Antisemitism and the Politicization of History and Memory
Distorting the Holocaust: Antisemitism and the Politicization of History and Memory
11:00am - 12:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Nov 15, 2020 at 11:00am Ends Nov 15, 2020 at 12:00pm In this presentation, Mark Weitzman will trace the roots of denial and distortion and present an overview of the situation today, focusing on how the history of the Holocaust is being rewritten by nationalist apologists, political opportunists and how this message is spread online. Click for more info |
Virtual Home-school Day
Virtual Home-school Day
1:00pm - 3:30pm
(2h 30m)
Workshops
Starts Nov 16, 2020 at 1:00pm Ends Nov 16, 2020 at 3:30pm Join the Education Staff of the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum for a virtual afternoon of learning for home-school students! Click for more info
Acts of Spiritual Resistance during the Holocaust
Acts of Spiritual Resistance during the Holocaust
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Nov 16, 2020 at 2:00pm Ends Nov 16, 2020 at 3:00pm Participate in this Echoes & Reflections webinar, led by a facilitator from Yad Vashem, to explore the many different ways that Jews resisted with their spirits, not with their weapons, while under Nazi occupation. Click for more info
The Sound of Hope: Holocaust Music and Musicians
The Sound of Hope: Holocaust Music and Musicians
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Nov 16, 2020 at 6:00pm Ends Nov 16, 2020 at 7:00pm The Sound of Hope: Holocaust Music and Musicians A webinar hosted by Montclair State University's John J. Cali School of Music and the College of Humanities and Social Sciences Click for more info |
Teaching Antisemitism throughout History
Teaching Antisemitism throughout History
1:00pm - 2:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Nov 17, 2020 at 1:00pm Ends Nov 17, 2020 at 2:00pm Participate in this interactive Echoes & Reflections workshop with the Institute for Curriculum Services to gain the tools to teach about ancient antisemitism and to make connections to how this hatred manifested in Nazi Germany and continues to persist in society today. Click for more info |
The Last Living Nuremberg Prosecutor: Ben Ferencz 75 Years Later
The Last Living Nuremberg Prosecutor: Ben Ferencz 75 Years Later
9:30am - 10:30am
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Nov 18, 2020 at 9:30am Ends Nov 18, 2020 at 10:30am Join the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum live on Facebook, 75 years after the Nuremberg trials began, to learn Ben's inspiring story and why his motto is: “Never give up.” Click for more info
Spiritual Resistance: Defiance through Music and Art in Theresienstadt
Spiritual Resistance: Defiance through Music and Art in Theresienstadt
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Nov 18, 2020 at 3:00pm Ends Nov 18, 2020 at 4:00pm This webinar, presented by Echoes & Reflections and The Defiant Requiem Foundation, will provide historical context and classroom resources to enhance instruction around spiritual resistance during the Holocaust. Click for more info
Beyond Nuremberg: The Global History of Nazi Trials
Beyond Nuremberg: The Global History of Nazi Trials
7:00pm - 8:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Nov 18, 2020 at 7:00pm Ends Nov 18, 2020 at 8:00pm This decades-long, global effort to bring Nazi perpetrators to justice represents the largest and most sustained effort to prosecute mass atrocities and genocide in the history of the world. Outlining this global struggle for justice, join the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum and Devin Pendas will explain how these trials worked and what impact they had on the postwar world. Click for more info |
Holocaust Education in Desperate Times
Holocaust Education in Desperate Times
11:00am - 12:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Nov 20, 2020 at 11:00am Ends Nov 20, 2020 at 12:00pm Join Simone Schweber as she discusses Holocaust education and the multiple contexts within which it is positioned including state and national education policy contexts, the global contexts of climate change and the rising appeal of authoritarian populism, surges of antisemitism and a seemingly renewed acceptability of racism. Click for more info |
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These Are My Last Words - A Webinar on Spiritual Resistance
These Are My Last Words - A Webinar on Spiritual Resistance
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Nov 23, 2020 at 2:00pm Ends Nov 23, 2020 at 3:00pm Noam Gitin, Head of Overseas Groups and Young Leadership Section at Yad Vashem, will lead this Echoes & Reflections webinar and guide participants toward creating a meaningful discussion in the classroom. Click for more info |
History Highlights: Genocide Denial
History Highlights: Genocide Denial
7:00pm - 8:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Nov 24, 2020 at 7:00pm Ends Nov 24, 2020 at 8:00pm Select Tuesdays at 7:00 P.M. C.D.T. the History Highlights lecture series features Holocaust and human rights topics presented by Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum historians and educators. Click for more info |
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Prepare to Teach the Holocaust in the New Year
Prepare to Teach the Holocaust in the New Year
All Day
Workshops
Nov 30, 2020 (All Day) Join Echoes & Reflections' final online course of the year to gain the knowledge and tools to teach the lessons of the Holocaust and guide your students to become change-makers in the year ahead. Click for more info |
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Connecting Themes of Holocaust Education and African American History
Connecting Themes of Holocaust Education and African American History
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Dec 3, 2020 at 3:00pm Ends Dec 3, 2020 at 4:00pm Join Echoes & Reflections and special guest Christopher Miller, Senior Director of Education at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, who will highlight learning resources to support classroom instruction on African American history, and engage in conversations about connections to Holocaust education. Click for more info
HMMSA Reads "94 Maidens"
HMMSA Reads "94 Maidens"
5:30pm - 6:30pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Dec 3, 2020 at 5:30pm Ends Dec 3, 2020 at 6:30pm Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio (HMMSA) invites you to join them on Thursday, December 3, 2020 at 5:30 P.M. C.S.T. for their HMMSA Reads Book Club featuring author Rhonda Fink-Whitman. Click for more info |
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