NASHVILLE CONFERENCE

"CHILDHOOD STORIES OF SURVIVAL"

The Irvin and Elizabeth Limor Educational Outreach Program sponsored by The Tennessee Holocaust Commission

The Tennessee Holocaust Commission (THC) is proud to announce the 2015 Irvin and Elizabeth Limor Holocaust Education Conference which will take place on Monday, October 26, 2015 from 8:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. (CST) at the Student Life Center on the Vanderbilt Campus located at 310 25th Avenue South, Nashville, TN 37240.

This year’s program will feature child survivor Inge Auerbacher, a survivor of Theresienstadt. Inge was born in Germany and spent her life between 7 and 10 years of age in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. Only 1 percent of the 15,000 children there survived.  Inge remembers when the famous children’s opera Brundibar was first written and performed while she was in Terezin. Inge tells her life story in three books: I Am a Star: Child of the Holocaust; Beyond the Yellow Star to America; and Finding Dr. Schatz: The Discovery of Streptomycin and A Life It Saved. The author has also reached out to the African-American community by writing about her friends, Mary and Martha DeSaussure, pioneering track stars of Brooklyn in her third book, Running Against the Wind.  As a Holocaust survivor her spirit and achievements are truly remarkable.

This one-day conference is open to the public and specifically designed for middle and high school teachers to provide them with additional knowledge and resources about the Holocaust. Educators are encouraged to identify 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.  

• Lunch: Lunch will NOT be provided as part of the conference.  We encourage participants to eat on the Vanderbilt Campus in Rand Hall. Lunch recommendations are available by viewing the link under general conference information.
• Parking:  Reserved parking is available on the Vanderbilt Campus for $10 per car.  To request a parking pass click on the link to the left for the request form and payment information or click here. You can also email the form to sharrae.l.allen@vanderbilt.edu

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