3rd Annual Wally and Lutz Hammerschlag Summer Educator Seminar - Monday, august 17th - Thursday, August 20, 2020 (9:00 AM - 12:00 PM EDT)
IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL LEARNING:
Teaching about the Holocaust through Art, Photography, Literature, Film, and more
Monday, August 17, 2020
Video: 3rd Annual Wally and Lutz Hammerschlag Summer Educator Seminar Day 1 (Part 1)
Dr. Robert Rozett, Senior Historian, Yad Vashem – “Icons of the Holocaust”
Dr. Rozett explains the importance of icons (example: Anne Frank, Schindler’s List, Night by Elie Wiesel) when teaching about the Holocaust and the problems, challenges, and pitfalls that can occur when there is missing information for your students.
Video: 3rd Annual Wally and Lutz Hammerschlag Summer Educator Seminar Day 1 (Part 2)
Lori Gerson, Yad Vashem Educator – “Digital Resources Developed by Yad Vashem for Educators”
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM DAY 1
If you have additional questions for Dr. Rozett, you may e-mail him at: robert.rozett@yadvashem.org.il
Lori Gerson provided a map to the Yad Vashem website, which shows how to find many of the resources she showed during her presentation, “Digital Resources Developed by Yad Vashem for Educators.” If you have additional questions for Lori, you may e-mail her at: lori.gerson@yadvashem.org.il
Resources and links mentioned during this session:
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New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education website: https://www.nj.gov/education/holocaust/
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For more information please contact: holocaust@doe.nj.gov
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Executive Director, Doug Cervi: Doug.cervi@doe.nj.gov
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Assistant to the Executive Director, Brianna Doherty: Brianna.doherty@doe.nj.gov
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Film: European Antisemitism on the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website: https://www.ushmm.org/antisemitism/what-is-antisemitism/why-the-jews-history-of-antisemitism
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Teachers guide: “Teaching Night,” from Facing History and Ourselves: https://www.facinghistory.org/books-borrowing/teaching-night
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Teachers guide: “Using Schindler’s List in the Classroom,” from Facing History and Ourselves: https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/teaching-schindlers-list
Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Video: 3rd Annual Wally and Lutz Hammerschlag Summer Educator Seminar Day 2 (Part 1)
Liz Elsby, Art Educator, “Using Art to Effectively Teach about the Holocaust”
Liz gives the participants teaching models and ideas for furthering student exploration and responses when teaching about the Holocaust. This approach is based on the experience of the individual - using a medium that appeals not just to the intellect, but also penetrates straight to the heart. Art can broaden our student’s empathy and understanding of the Holocaust, while inspiring them to create their own artistic response to what they are learning and experiencing.
Video: 3rd Annual Wally and Lutz Hammerschlag Summer Educator Seminar Day 2 (Part 2)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM DAY 2
If you have additional questions for Liz, you may e-mail her at: lizzyillustration@yahoo.com
Resources and information featured during today’s seminar:
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Holocaust and Genocide Dual High School Credit Consortium at Stockton University
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Contact: Steven Marcus
Steven.Marcus@stockton.edu or 609-226-7887
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The Felix Nussbaum House (museum in Osnabrück, Germany) houses the paintings of German-Jewish painter Felix Nussbaum: https://www.museumsquartier-osnabrueck.de/
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View Charlotte Salomon’s collection of art, Leben? oder Theater? (Life? Or Theatre?) online at the Joods Historisch Museum (Jewish History Museum in Amsterdam, the Netherlands): https://charlotte.jck.nl/
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Bedrich Fritta, Tommy: To Tommy, for His Third Birthday in Terezin (1944). Buy from Yad Vashem: https://store.yadvashem.org/he/tommy-56
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Hana Volavková, I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942–1944 (1959). Buy from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Never-Saw-Another-Butterfly-Concentration/dp/0805210156
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Přemysl Pitter, Righteous Among the Nations: https://righteous.yadvashem.org/?searchType=righteous_only&language=en&itemId=4016936&ind=NaN
Wednesday, August 19, 2020
Video: 3rd Annual Wally and Lutz Hammerschlag Summer Educator Seminar Day 3 (Part 1)
Sheryl Ochayon, Echoes & Reflections Project Director, International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem
“Using Photography of the Victims and the Perpetrators”
Video: 3rd Annual Wally and Lutz Hammerschlag Summer Educator Seminar Day 3 (Part 2)
Sheryl Ochayon, Echoes & Reflections Project Director, International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem
“The Auschwitz Album”
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM DAY 3
A list of links to the photos from Sheryl Ochayon’s presentation are below. If you have additional questions for Sheryl, you may e-mail her at: sheryl.ochayon@yadvashem.org.il
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Master of Arts in Holocaust and Genocide Studies program
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General contact: mahg@stockton.edu – website: https://stockton.edu/graduate/holocaust-genocide-studies.html
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MAHG Program Director, Raz Segal: Raz.Segal@stockton.edu
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MAHG Program Assistant, Morgan Everman: Morgan.Everman@stockton.edu
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“Childhood in Frankfurt” an essay by Wally Hammerschlag
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Emmanuel Ringelblum and the Oneg Shabbat Archive: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-oneg-shabbat-archive and online exhibition from Yad Vashem: https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/ringelblum/index.asp
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Emmanuel Ringelblum diary, Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: https://www.amazon.com/Notes-Warsaw-Ghetto-Emmanuel-Ringelblum/dp/1596873310
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The Warsaw Diary of Adam Czerniakow: https://www.amazon.com/Warsaw-Diary-Adam-Czerniakow-association/dp/1566632307
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Walter Genewein, Austrian Photographer who captured photos at the Lodz Ghetto, collection at Jewish Museum Frankfurt: https://www.juedischesmuseum.de/en/explore/documents-and-photos/detail/colour-slides-from-the-german-ghetto-administration-in-lodz/
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Mendel Grossman photo collection of the Lodz Ghetto at USHMM: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn537115#?rsc=130483&cv=0&c=0&m=0&s=0&xywh=-636%2C-74%2C2255%2C1477
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Photos taken by the Sonderkommando at Auschwitz in 1944 from Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum (first three listed): http://auschwitz.org/en/gallery/historical-pictures-and-documents/extermination,11.html
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Film: Engineering Evil: https://vimeo.com/141967904
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Ann Weiss, "Last Album" website: http://thelastalbum.org/content/
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iWitness website: https://iwitness.usc.edu/sfi/
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A FILM UNFINISHED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNA-_WXt1Js
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VLADKA MEED: https://echoesandreflections.org/unit-10/?state=open#content
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HENRYK ROSS: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dr3PeT-Fxyc
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Excerpt from Night, by Elie Wiesel from Echoes & Reflections: http://echoesandreflections.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/EchoesAndReflections_Lesson_Five_Memoir-ExcerptFromNight.pdf
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The Sketchbook From Auschwitz, available for purchase: http://auschwitz.org/en/museum/news/the-sketchbook-from-auschwitz,877.html
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Karl Hocker album: https://www.ushmm.org/collections/the-museums-collections/collections-highlights/auschwitz-ssalbum/album
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Lawrence Langer and his concept of “Choiceless Choices” teaching unit available on Facing History and Ourselves website: https://www.facinghistory.org/holocaust-and-human-behavior/chapter-9/choiceless-choices
Thursday, August 20, 2020
Jackie Metzger, Educator, “The Use of Poetry in Holocaust Education”
Jackie discusses how the use of poetry can achieve a connection for students between the historical facts and the “larger questions” such as decisions, dilemmas, and empathy.
Video: 3rd Annual Wally and Lutz Hammerschlag Summer Educator Seminar Day 4 (Part 1)
Video: 3rd Annual Wally and Lutz Hammerschlag Summer Educator Seminar Day 4 (Part 2)
Yoni Berrous, International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem, “The Use of Films via Digital Learning and in a Classroom Setting”
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FROM DAY 4
Jackie Metzger:
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Book: At the Mind's Limits: Contemplations by a Survivor on Auschwitz and its Realities, by Jean Amery – available for purchase on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Minds-Limits-Contemplations-Auschwitz-Realities/dp/0253211735
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Novel: Badenheim 1939 by, Israeli novelist and Holocaust survivor Aharon Appelfeld – available for purchase on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Badenheim-1939-Aharon-Appelfeld/dp/1567923917
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Book: Postwar:A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt: https://www.amazon.com/Postwar-History-Europe-Since-1945/dp/0143037757
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Poem: “Refugee Blues,” W.H. Auden, 1939 and teaching unit from Facing History and Ourselves: https://www.facinghistory.org/holocaust-and-human-behavior/chapter-7/refugee-blues
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Painting: The Refugee. Felix Nussbaum, 1939: https://www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/exhibitions/art/nussbaum.asp
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Photo: Jews Waiting in Line in Front of a Travel Agency (Berlin, Germany, 1939) from Yad Vashem Photo Archive (in “Teaching the Holocaust through Poetry” unit)
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Teaching Unit: Teaching the Holocaust Through Poetry from Yad Vashem: https://www.yadvashem.org/education/educational-materials/lesson-plans/holocaust-poetry.html
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Memoir: Auschwitz and After by Charlotte Delbo
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Poem: “Photograph from September 11” by Wislawa Szymborska: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/48799/photograph-from-september-11
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Poem: “Written in Pencil in the Sealed Railway Car” by Dan Pagis and A Teacher’s Guide for Using the Poem and Four Biblical Verses written by Jackie Metzger: https://www.yadvashem.org/education/educational-materials/learning-environment/written-freightcar.html
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Poem: “Testimony” by Dan Pagis: https://www.yadvashem.org/education/educational-videos/video-toolbox/hevt-dan-pagis.html
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Poem: “And Who Will Remember the Rememberers?” from Open Closed Open by Yehuda Amichai: https://www.amazon.com/Open-Closed-Poems-Yehuda-Amichai/dp/0156030500
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Poem: “The Survivor” by Tadeusz Różewicz
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Poem: “Shema” by Primo Levi
See also:
Survival in Auschwitz (If This Is A Man), by Primo Levi
The Drowned and The Saved, by Primo Levi
Yoni Berrous:
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Yad Vashem Video Toolbox: https://www.yadvashem.org/education/educational-videos/video-toolbox.html
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AKH (Agentur Karl Höffkes) film archive: http://www.archiv-akh.de/
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Survivor Testimony: "They Gave Me Life" - The Story of Rina Quint from Yad Vashem - Educational videos - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvL68rrIm-4
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Film clip: “The Great Deportation in the Warsaw Ghetto - Abraham Lewin’s Diary” Yad Vashem - Educational videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyZPDvgXXP4&t=22s
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Abraham Lewin writings: A cup of tears: A diary of the WarsawGhetto – digital version available at USHMM: https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/bib717
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Film clip: “Who Will Write Our History?” from Facing History and Ourselves - https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/video/who-will-write-our-history
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Who Will Write Our History website:
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The Sara and Sam Schoffer Holocaust Resource Center has the rights to the full version of the film. Please contact the Holocaust Center if you would like to show the film to your class: 609-652-4699
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Film: There was no hope. Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 19th April 1943 (29 minute animation film) on YouTube - MUZEUM POLIN Channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOpKGTz4GJA
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Film clip: “Key Historical Concepts in Holocaust Education: Nazi Camps” from Yad Vashem - Educational videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XQBRVCToTg
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Film clip (animation): “The Portrait” on YouTube – Ayelet Anikst Channel - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gh8ea1UXGv0
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Film clip: “Shema” from Yad Vashem - Educational videos - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zg-d6fk41PU
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Film clip: “Primo Levi: A Life” from Yad Vashem - Educational videos - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob_qDLbL5ZY
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Film clip: “Antisemitism” from Echoes and Reflections – Educator Resource: Video Toolbox - https://echoesandreflections.org/video_toolbox/
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Graphic novel: Maus, by Art Spiegelman. Complete collection available on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Maus-Art-Spiegelman/dp/0679406417
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Tools to create animations with your students:
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Adobe Spark - Adobe Spark is an online and mobile design app. Easily create stunning social graphics, short videos, and web pages: https://spark.adobe.com/
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FlipGrind: https://info.flipgrid.com/