Request a THGAAC Speaker (Free Service)
Are you interested in having one of our staff members visit your classroom or event?
Sun | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
27
|
28
Connecting the Past with Today: Jewish Refugees and the Holocaust - Mini Course
Connecting the Past with Today: Jewish Refugees and the Holocaust - Mini Course
All Day
Workshops
Feb 28, 2022 (All Day) Explore Echoes & Reflections resources to support teaching about the experiences of Jewish refugees during the Holocaust how to connect the lessons of this history to today’s refugee situation. Click for more info |
Heroines of the Holocaust
Heroines of the Holocaust
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Mar 1, 2022 at 2:00pm Ends Mar 1, 2022 at 3:00pm In honor of International Women's Day (March 8th, 2022), Sheryl Ochayon, Program Director at Yad Vashem, will share the inspiring stories of some great women of valor. Click for more info |
||||
Teaching the Holocaust, Empowering Studens - 3-Week Online Course
Teaching the Holocaust, Empowering Studens - 3-Week Online Course
All Day
Workshops
Mar 7, 2022 (All Day) Examine a range of classroom content and instructional tools to support students' study and reflection of the history of the Holocaust and its ongoing meaning in the world today through this three-part Echoes & Reflections workshop. Click for more info |
Who Betrayed Anne Frank?
Who Betrayed Anne Frank?
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Mar 8, 2022 at 2:00pm Ends Mar 8, 2022 at 3:00pm Daniel Rozenga, Head of the Dutch Desk at Yad Vashem, will help to separate fact from fiction regarding who gave up Anne Frank's hiding place. Click for more info |
How the War in Ukraine Is Shaped by Its Past
How the War in Ukraine Is Shaped by Its Past
8:30am - 9:00am
(30m)
Workshops
Starts Mar 9, 2022 at 8:30am Ends Mar 9, 2022 at 9:00am The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) experts will discuss the history of Ukraine and its people, including Holocaust survivors who are under threat once again. Click for more info
Teaching the Holocaust, Empowering Students
Teaching the Holocaust, Empowering Students
2:00pm - 5:00pm
(3h)
Workshops
Starts Mar 9, 2022 at 2:00pm Ends Mar 9, 2022 at 5:00pm This professional development session for educators will give you the tools to teach and initiate important discussions about the complex lessons of the Holocaust. Click for more info |
||||
Pyramid of Hate
Pyramid of Hate
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Mar 15, 2022 at 3:00pm Ends Mar 15, 2022 at 4:00pm 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 |
||||||
Musical Resistance in the Holocaust
Musical Resistance in the Holocaust
2:00pm - 3:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Mar 22, 2022 at 2:00pm Ends Mar 22, 2022 at 3:00pm This Echoes & Reflections webinar will be presented by Tamar Machado-Recanati, music therapist, musicologist and researcher of Jewish music during the Holocaust. Click for more info |
Subverting Stereotypes: Women Who Resisted
Subverting Stereotypes: Women Who Resisted
8:30am - 9:00am
(30m)
Workshops
Starts Mar 23, 2022 at 8:30am Ends Mar 23, 2022 at 9:00am Join the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to learn about dynamic women who resisted the Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust. Click for more info
Find Your Answers - Advancing Access to Holocaust-Related Material
Find Your Answers - Advancing Access to Holocaust-Related Material
9:00am - 10:00am
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Mar 23, 2022 at 9:00am Ends Mar 23, 2022 at 10:00am Join the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) on 23 March for the launch of a short film about a researcher's journey to uncover more about Malva's life and death, and a panel discussion about how our new guidelines can help researchers and archivists to access Holocaust-related material. Click for more info |
|||||
2022 Arfa Professional Development Conference, "Without a Trace: the Obligation of Memory"
2022 Arfa Professional Development Conference, "Without a Trace: the Obligation of Memory"
8:30am - 10:30am
(2h)
Workshops
Starts Mar 27, 2022 at 8:30am Ends Mar 27, 2022 at 10:30am Join the American Society for Yad Vashem for their 2022 Arfa Professional Development Conference, "Without a Trace: the Obligation of Memory" Click for more info |
Technology and New Media in Holocaust Education
Technology and New Media in Holocaust Education
6:00pm - 7:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Mar 28, 2022 at 6:00pm Ends Mar 28, 2022 at 7:00pm Featuring Video Game Director and 3G Luc Bernard and his immersive gaming experience "The Light in the Darkness" that evolves the way current and future generations think and learn about the Holocaust and antisemitism. Luc is the Founder & Executive Director of Voices of the Forgotten. Click for more info |
Home-school Day
Home-school Day
9:30am - 2:30pm
(5h)
Workshops
Starts Mar 29, 2022 at 9:30am Ends Mar 29, 2022 at 2:30pm Join the Education Staff of the Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum for a day of learning for home-school students! Click for more info
Spotlight on Contemporary Antisemitism
Spotlight on Contemporary Antisemitism
3:00pm - 4:00pm
(1h)
Workshops
Starts Mar 29, 2022 at 3:00pm Ends Mar 29, 2022 at 4:00pm Participate in this Echoes & Reflections webinar to gain resources for teaching about antisemitism in today’s world and to access strategies for promoting action and agency among students in the fight against antisemitism and hate. Click for more info |
1
|
2
|
Are you interested in having one of our staff members visit your classroom or event?
Senate Bill 1828 charges the Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission with developing or approving materials for a statewide Holocaust Remembrance Week. Provided is information on best practices and various lists of approved resources.
The THGAAC sends out a quarterly newsletter in order to provide information on past and upcoming events. E-mail blasts with deadlines or when grant applications are available are also sent periodically.