Birmingham Holocaust Education Center (BHEC)
Teacher Cadre
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September 2010 Teacher Cadre guest, Ingrid Roskin, with Ruth Siegler, Ann Mollengarden, |
The goal of the Teacher Cadre is to enhance teachers' knowledge of the Holocaust and its pedagogy as well as to provide a network for peer exchange. Study/Learning Sessions are scheduled on a regular basis during the school year.
Membership
All interested teachers are invited to join the Teacher Cadre.
Membership affords the opportunity to receive the latest information about Holocaust Education via e-mail as well as notification of Study/Learning Sessions.
Join Here (online application)
Upcoming Sessions
(Open to All Teachers. We ask only that you let us know that you are coming.)
This year we will focus on ghettos, comparing and contrasting 4 ghettos: Warsaw, Lodz, Vilna, and Terezin. Readings for each session will be linked here.
Tuesday, October 2, 2012, 6:30 pm, BHEC Office
A Ghetto is Not a Ghetto is Not a Ghetto
This first session will provide a general background and include the showing of the film, "A Film Unfinished."
- Memory and Legacy, Berenbaum and Mais
- Through Enemy Eyes, Mais
- A Film Unfinished, Trailer (film is 88 minutes)
- A Film Unfinished, Review by Rabbi Yossi Friedenson
- Ghetto Photo Resources
Thursday, November 15, 2012, 6:30 pm, BHEC Office
The Warsaw Ghetto
1. "From Adam Czerniakow's Diary," A Holocaust Reader by Lucy Dawidowicz
2. "Czerniakow, A Man Who Sought to Benefit the Jews," by Rabbi Joseph Friedenson
3. "Three Communiques of the Jewish Combat Organization," A Holocaust Reader by
Lucy Dawidowicz
5. "Yizkor, 1943," by Rachel Auerbach, The Literature of Destruction: Jewish Response
to Catastrophe
And one more on A Film Unfinished -
6. Review of "A Film Unfinished" by Bernard Dichek
Tuesday, February 12, 2013, 6:30 pm, BHEC Office
The Lodz Ghetto and the Theresienstadt Ghetto
1. "Coal Mines in the Lodz Ghetto," by Leon Hurwitz
2. "The Distinctiveness of the Lodz Ghetto," by Israel Gutman
3. "Visualizing the Lodz Ghetto," by Yitzchak Mais and Michal Unger
4. "The Pavement of Hell," by Leonard Tushnet
5. "Metamorphosis" by Pavel Fantl
6. "Voices of Terezin," A Study Guide to the Theresienstadt Ghetto by Inga Bunsch Sieminski
Thursday, March 14, 2013, 6:30 pm, BHEC Office
The Vilna Ghetto
1. "Cultural Activities in the Vilna Ghetto," from A Holocaust Reader
2. "Resistance in the Vilna Ghetto" from A Holocaust Reader
3. "Poems and Songs of Hirsh Glik"
4. "Three Sermons," by Zelig Kalmanovitsch
6. "The Lead Plates at the Rom Press," by Sutzkever
For more information or to let us know that you are coming, contact the BHEC Education Coordinator.
Page last updated: March 2, 2013