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West Tennessee

Holocaust Education Conference

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The Tennessee Holocaust Commission (THC) hosted the West Tennessee Educational Outreach Program. The program took place on Thursday, October 27, 2011 from 8:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m. at The Teaching and Learning Academy located at 2484 Union Avenue in Memphis.

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 year this program is open to all middle and high school teachers, preferably with some experience in teaching the Holocaust. There is no cost to attend the conference. Registration is required and space is limited.

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