Contact

Danielle Kahane-Kaminsky
Tennessee Holocaust Commission
danielle.kahane-kaminsky@vanderbilt.edu
615-343-2563

When

Tuesday October 25, 2011 from 8:00 AM to 3:30 PM CDT

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Where

Student Life Center
310 25th Avenue South
Nashville, TN 37240

General Conference Information:

Letter to Conference Participants

Program Schedule

Student Registration Form

Vanderbilt Parking Reservation Form

Map of Vanderbilt Location

Lunch Recommendations

Event Press Release

Edcuational Materials:

General:

Overview of the Holocaust PPT

Holocaust Timeline

Abridged Timeline with Definitions and Terms

Genocide in the 20th Century

What Can You Do? (For Students)

United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Student Resource Sheet on Human Rights and Refugees

Genocide Treaty

Specific to the Conference:

Contextualization of Elie Wiesel's Night PPT

Educators Materials for Conference

Liberator's Testimony (With Pictures)

Annotated Photos of Liberation

Student Session Information:

Student Session Outline

Assessing Responsibility - Activity

Student Writing Prompt

Common Core Standards Alignment

Other Information:

Book / DVD Order Form

Post-Conference Evaluation (Teachers)

Post-Conference Evaluation (Students)

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Nashville

Irvin and Elizabeth Limor Holocaust Education Conference

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The Tennessee Holocaust Commission (THC) hosted the Nashville Irvin and Elizabeth Limor Educational Outreach Program. The program took place on Tuesday, October 25, 2011 from 8:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. at Student Life Center on Vanderbilt Campus.

This year's program, The Power of Responsibility in the Holocaust and the Age of Genocide, highlighted the work of the Teaching History Matters Project, the work of a United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Teaching Fellow. This USHMM Fellow, along with his students, began studying information about a "Death Train" that was liberated at Farsleben, Germany which is near Magdeburg. The class posted an online journal in attempt to re-connect this train transport of 2,500 Holocaust survivors with the American soldiers who liberated them on April 13th, 1945. To date over 200 survivors and liberators from this train have been located and reunited. This project was developed about a subject students seem to dislike the most, but one that matters the most -HISTORY.

This one-day conference is specifically designed for middle and high school teachers to provide them with additional knowledge and resources about the Holocaust. Educators were encouraged to identify up to four mature students to accompany them to the all day workshop for hands-on activities and interaction with survivors and educators in the field of Holocaust studies.

Each yeart this program is open to all middle and high school teachers, preferably with some experience in teaching the Holocaust.

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