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Obama's
Great-Uncle
Recalls
Liberating Nazi
Camp
Associated
Press, July 23,
2008
Charles T. Payne
was 20 years old
and, like any
good
Midwesterner, he
knew how to
listen.
He was making
conversation, in
pieced-together
English and
German, with a
freed prisoner
of Ohrdruf, the
Nazi work camp
Payne's infantry
regiment had
just liberated
at the end of
World War II.
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An Integral Part
of the Story
David S. Wyman,
July 20, 2008
Dr. David
Silberklang of
Yad Vashem
("Putting Hillel
Kook in
Context," July
11) acknowledges
that the Bergson
Group (the
Holocaust rescue
activists in the
United States,
led by Hillel
Kook) "did have
an impact" on
mobilizing
American public
support for the
rescue of
European Jewry.
But the group's
most significant
achievement was
its crucial role
in creating the
War Refugee
Board (WRB), a
U.S. government
agency that
helped rescue
more than
200,000 Jews
from the Nazis
during
1944-1945. Since
Dr. Silberklang
makes a point of
mentioning that
Yad Vashem in
1993 published a
Hebrew edition
of my book "The
Abandonment of
the Jews," he
presumably knows
that the book
document the
Bergson Group's
role in the
establishment of
the WRB.
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U.S.
Holocaust Museum
Launches Bergson
Exhibit
Jewish World,
July 16, 2008
Bowing to public
pressure, the US
Holocaust Museum
in Washington
has inaugurated
a new
exhibit
about
the Holocaust
rescue activists
known as the
Bergson Group.
The Bergson
Group was a
maverick
activist group
in the US in the
1940s led by
Hillel Kook - a
nephew of
Israel's first
chief rabbi who
worked under the
pseudonym of
Peter Bergson -
that raised
public awareness
of
the Holocaust
and campaigned
for US rescue
efforts to save
the Jews of
Europe during
World War II.
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Jewish Leaders
in Germany Slam
Shoah Omission
from Citizenship
Test
Haaretz,
July 15, 2008
Jewish community
leaders in
Germany last
week criticized
the Interior
Ministry's
planned
citizenship exam
for new
immigrants,
which features a
questionnaire
that does not
mention the
Holocaust.
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Whitwell
Moves to New
Location With
Holocaust
Memorial
WRCB-TV,
July 14, 2008
It started out
as a simple 8th
grade project,
but that project
inspired a book
and then a
movie. Students
at Whitwell
Middle School
are known
worldwide for
the paperclip
project they
created in honor
of the Holocaust
victims.Those
at Whitwell
Middle School
are now anxious
to settle into
their new digs
and anxious to
see the
Children's
Holocaust
Memorial make
it's way across
town to the new
school.
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Americans,
Israelis Grapple
with Lessons of
the Holocaust
David S. Wyman,
July 4, 2008
Although more
than 60 years
have passed
since World War
II and the
Holocaust,
Americans
continue to
grapple with the
history of that
period and the
lessons to be
learned from it.
From President
Bush’s recent
remark about
appeasing the
Nazis in the
1930s, to
Senator Obama’s
pride in his
great-uncle’s
role in
liberating a
Nazi
concentration
camp, the Hitler
era continues to
figure
prominently in
American public
discourse.
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Irena Sendler,
Lifeline to
Young Jews, Is
Dead at 98
New York Times,
May 13, 2008
Irena Sendler, a
Roman Catholic
who created a
network of
rescuers in
Poland who
smuggled about
2,500 Jewish
children out of
the Warsaw
ghetto in World
War II, some of
them in coffins,
died Monday in
Warsaw. She was
98.
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A Story of
Holocaust
Survivors, From
a Different
Angle
International
Herald Tribune,
May 5, 2008
The gray walls
of Yad Vashem
have long
documented the
horrors of the
Holocaust. Now
an oddly vibrant
exhibition at
the official
Holocaust
Martyrs' and
Heroes'
Remembrance
Authority is
telling a less
known story of
the renaissance
of the survivors
in Israel and
the
extraordinary
role they played
in shaping the
character of the
new state.
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Britain's
Holocaust Shame:
The Voyage of
the Exodus
The Independent,
May 5, 2008
The ship was
filled with
Jewish refugees,
desperately
seeking a new
life in the
Promised Land
after the
horrors of Nazi
concentration
camps. But,
thanks to the
Royal Navy, they
were sent back
to prison camps
in Germany.
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Dallas Holocaust
Museum's
Collection of
Relics Lets
History of
Atrocities Live
On
The Dallas
Morning News,
May 4, 2008
The items are
haunting.
Tangles of empty
frames of
eyeglasses
snatched from
people's faces.
Gold-plated
wedding rings
stripped of
their jewels.
Black-and-white
photos showing
piles of bodies
in boxcars at
concentration
camps.
These relics of
the Holocaust
fill boxes,
shelves and
filing cabinets
in an office at
the Dallas
Holocaust
Museum.
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Thousands
Converge on
Auschwitz in
Memory of
Holocaust
Victims
Oswiecim,
Poland, May 1,
2008
Nearly 8,000
people, mostly
Jewish
teenagers, took
part Thursday in
the 17th annual
March of the
Living from
Auschwitz to
Birkenau on Yom
Hashoah,
Holocaust
Memorial Day.
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Holocaust
Survivors
Dwindle, but
Memories Stay
Strong
USA
Today, May 1,
2008
A violinist
pierced the
quiet of the
U.S. Capitol
Rotunda with the
theme of
Schindler's List
on Thursday as
hundreds of
people listened
in honor of 6
million Jews who
were killed by
the Nazis during
the Holocaust.
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A Master's Degree in Relating Past Horrors to Generations Today
Deutsche Welle, October 22, 2007
As the Holocaust recedes further into history and eyewitnesses die, a college in Berlin has designed a graduate degree course to teach students how to communicate the Nazi genocide to today's public.
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"This Month in Holocaust History" now available online.
The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR) publishes a monthly article entitled "This Month in Holocaust History." These articles are a valuable teaching tool. As a JFR "Center of Excellence," the BHEC is proud to bring this resource to teachers.
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Greenwood Teacher Focuses on Real-life Holocaust Lessons
NBC News, Greenwood, Indiana, July 18, 2007
This year Indiana high schools have a new education requirement centered on one of the most horrifying moments in history. Holocaust history is now mandated for Hoosier students so they won't forget the millions of innocent people killed by the Nazis. A local teacher traveled to Auschwitz to help her students understand this mass murder.
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New Teaching Resources Now Available Online July 1, 2007
A new PowerPoint teaching resource entitled "The Holocaust," created by the BHEC, is now available online. Additional PowerPoint resources entitled "The History of Anti-Semitism" and "A Basic Guide to Judaism" will be available soon.
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U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and Google Join in Online Darfur Mapping Initiative
April 10, 2007
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum today joined with Google to unveil an unprecedented online mapping initiative aimed at furthering awareness and action in the Darfur region of Sudan. Crisis in Darfur, enables more than 200 million Google Earth™ mapping service users worldwide to visualize and better understand the genocide currently unfolding in Darfur. The Museum has assembled content—photographs, data and eyewitness testimony—from a number of sources that are brought together for the first time in Google Earth. This information will appear as a Global Awareness layer in Google Earth starting today.
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Teaching
Tolerance:
One Survivor
Remembers TIME
Classroom's Educational Kit
The Gerda and Kurt Klein
Foundation creates the
opportunity for young people to
understand the world and
translate that understanding
into positive action.
This public non-profit
foundation promotes education
which teaches tolerance and
respect for others, and
encourages community service
focusing on ending hunger.
Both Gerda Klein and her husband
Kurt (now deceased) were
survivors of the Holocaust. The
Gerda and Kurt Klein Foundation
has 2 educational kits available
FREE to teachers. Both a
welcome addition to a classroom
teaching the Holocaust and/or
tolerance.
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Lesson Plan: Teaching the Holocaust
through Literature - Ida Fink - “The
Tenth Man"
Literature, in particular Holocaust
literature, often makes a lasting
impression on its readers due to the
vivid imagery and the intimacy of the
characters and events. Thus, it often
has the ability to evoke feelings and
emotions, in contrast to a standard
history text-book. In an effort to
promote Holocaust education with an
interdisciplinary approach, the
International School for Holocaust
Studies has designed this lesson plan
focusing on teaching the Holocaust
through literature. The lesson and
activities highlight a short story
entitled The Tenth Man, written by
Holocaust survivor Ida Fink. The story
was first published in Polish in 1983.
The classroom activity is aimed for
students in Grades 9-12.
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Teaching the
Holocaust through Literature
In
the field of Holocaust education, teachers
face a daunting two-fold task: they must
impart the vital historical information on
the Holocaust, and at the same time ensure
its continued emotional relevance to a
generation removed from the actual events.
By using literature in the classroom,
primarily postwar poetry and memoirs written
by survivors, the Holocaust can be
translated from a massive historical process
to a series of events which directly
affected the life of the individual. In
addition, Holocaust literature touches on
the historical and the literary, making the
field relevant to teachers of history,
literature and English alike.
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Jefferson County
Schools Approve "First Ever" Semester Course on the
Holocaust
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Echoes and Reflections, New Holocaust
Curriculum Unveiled
Comprehensive program on the Holocaust
delivers the pedagogical expertise of ADL,
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History
Foundation, and Yad Vashem. Rich with visual
history testimony integrated into 10
multi-part lessons, Echoes and Reflections
offers curriculum connections to
contemporary issues of diversity, prejudice
and bigotry, and modern-day genocide.
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