31st Annual Holocaust Awareness Program

 31st Annual Holocaust Awareness Program
Sponsored by the Atlantic Cape Community College and
The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

Date: Thursday, May 1
Time: 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Place: Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center
           (2nd floor of the Richard E. Bjork Library)
PDH: 2.0 hours for NJ educators

The workshop “Commemorating the 75th Anniversary of the Kindertransport” focused on the rescue of 10,000 children from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia to Great Britain, 1938 – 1940. Resource materials were distributed that can be used to supplement Holocaust and Genocide Education for grades 5-12. Ruth Kessler’s memoir, The Blue Vase: A Memoir of a Vienna Kindertransport Child, was also provided. Ruth Kessler shared her life story with the workshop participants and she signed her memoir for each educator. Two (2) Professional Development Hours were offered through the Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center.

Thank you for your continued support of activities related to Holocaust and Genocide Education. You, as educators, are essential to our mission.

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Ruth Kessler, Holocaust survivor who was on a Kindertransport to England from Vienna, spoke about her memoir . Each educator at the Holocaust Awareness Program received a signed copy of her book, The Blue Vase.

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Ruth Kessler shared her life story and the significance of the Kindertransport with the educators who attended the Holocaust Awareness Program.

 

Mail or FAX registration to:

Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center

Richard Stockton College of New Jersey

101 Vera King Farris Drive

Galloway, NJ 08205-9441

FAX: 609.626.3649.
Questions? Please contact Gail Rosenthal at (609) 652-4699.