BELFER NEXT STEP CONFERENCE

ATLANTA, GEORGIA

JUNE 22-24, 2009

LINK TO OUR BLOG SITE HERE!

The Agenda

Teacher Survey

USHMM Belfer Next Step Conference Contact Info., Downloads, and Links

Dan Penner, USHMM Teacher Fellow: Icebreaker Activity

E-mail: dpenner7@msn.com

Small Steps Introduction Activity (document)
Dr. Dede Thompson: Art of the Holocaust

E-mail: thompbd@comcast.net

Dinah Babbitt Website Link

Northwestern University Art of the Holocaust Link

Link for buying The Fuhrer Gives a City to the Jews

Link to You Tube for clips from The Fuhrer Gives a City to the Jews

Link to purchasing Tommy's book: This is not a Fairy Tale: It's real!

Sally Levine, USHMM Teacher Fellow and Regional Education Corps: The Holocaust in Historical Context

E-mail: sally2323@comcast.net

Historical Context of the Holocaust PowerPoint

Link to info. on the Protocols of the Elders of Zion

Berlin Olympics Link

Hitler's Last Political Statement (Document)

Hitler's Last Will and Testament (Document)

Father Patrick Desbois Podcast from USHMM

Recommended books:

Among the Righteous: Lost Stories From the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands by Robert Satloff

The Holocaust in Bullets by Father Patrick Desbois

Dan Penner, USHMM Teacher Fellow: Making the Holocaust Relevant

E-mail: dpenner7@msn.com

Citizens of a Global Community Activity (document)

Link to Hands on Atlanta Website

Link to Southern Poverty Law Center Hate Group Map

Link to Teaching Tolerance Website

I'm Still Here: Film and Discussion

Facing History Study Guide for Salvaged Pages (pdf)

Alexandra Zapruder Podcast from USHMM

Viewing Guide for I'm Still Here (document)

MTV Link for I'm Still Here

Immigration Requirements to the US during the Holocaust (document from USHMM)

Emigration Requirements from Germany during the Holocaust (document from USHMM)

Recommended Book:

We are Children Just the Same: Vedem, the Secret Magazine by the Boys of Terezin

Meghan McNeely, USHMM Teacher Fellows: Teaching About the Holocaust: Using Literature and Memoirs

E-mail for Megan: mcneelym@clarke.k12.ga.us

Link to Meghan's Website with resources

Holocaust Resources List Handout (document)

Link to Deborah Lipstadt CNN Blog about Rosenblat's Memoir

Link to Gerda Weissman Klein Teaching Kit

The Woman Who Wore the Hat Handout (Notes from the Author document)

Link to Sarah's Key Discussion Questions

Recommended Books:

On Both Sides of the Wall by Vladka Mead

In my Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer by Irene Gut Opdyke

Daniel Half Human by David Chotjewitz

Nazi Officer's Wife by Edith H. Beer

Les Innocent Blood Be Shed by Philip P. Hallie

The Zookeeper's Wife by Diane Ackerman

Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay

Brendan Murphy, USHMM Museum Teacher Fellow, Lerner Fellow: The History of Antisemitism

E-mail: murphyb@marist.com

A History of Anti-Semitism PDF version of PowerPoint

Link to Louisiana Better Babies Eugenics Info.

Link to Info. about Martin Luther and Indulgences

Link to Martin Luther's 95 Thesis

Link to Luther's Concerning Jews and Their Lies

Link to Info. about the Jewish Rebellion in 66 AD

Link to Melito of Sardis: On the Passover

Link to John Chrysostom Homilies

Link to Info. about Host Desecration

Link to Info. about Blood Libel

Link to Info. about images of the Judensau

Link to Info. about the Crusades and the Jews

Link to Info. about the Venice Jewish Ghetto

Declaration of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to the Jewish Community

Link to Constantine's Sword Site

Recommended Books:

The Ideology of Death by John Weiss

The Gospel of John Set Free by George Smiga

The Synoptic Gospels Set Free by Daniel Harrington

Constantine's Sword (book and documentary) by Oren Jacoby

Tosia Schneider, Holocaust Survivor and Author

Someone Must Survive to Tell the World by Tosia Schneider (book title)

Link to on-line testimony of Tosia Scheider

Link to info. about Belzec Killing Center

"The gas chambers of Auschwitz did not start with bricks; they started with words."

Link to YouTube video of Father Patrick Desbois

Recommended Song:

"To Every Person There is a Name"

Recommended Book:

Ordinary Men by Christopher Browning

Tour of the Breman: Absence of Humanity, the Holocaust Years Link to Website of Breman Jewish Heritage Museum
Dr. Lili Baxter, Director of the Weinberg Center for Holocaust Education: Auschwitz: The Landscape of Hell

E-mail: lbaxter@thebreman.org

Auschwitz: The Landscape of Hell PowerPoint

Link to IG Farben's role in the Holocaust

Link to USHMM article about Operation Reinhard

Link to Lili Jacobs' Auschwitz Album from Yad Vashem- (Online exhibition + how to buy it)

Referenced Books and Movies:

In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin

Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettoes 1933-1945- (USHMM Publication--2 Volumes)

Rene and I Documentary Link (documentary about twin experiments in Auschwitz)

Sally Levine, USHMM Teacher Fellow and Regional Education Corps: World Cafe Conversation

E-mail: sally2323@comcast.net

World Cafe Conversation Introduction PowerPoint

Focus Question:

"What is the role of historical fiction in Holocaust Education?"

Resulting Questions from the World Cafe:

"Why use historical fiction material to teach when there is so much non-fiction material available?"

"What do survivors think of historical fiction?"

"How much inaccuracy do we tolerate before a historical fiction piece cannot be used?"

"Why are we using historical fiction and what purpose does it serve? (Does it further student knowledge of the Holocaust?)

Renee Kaplan, USHMM Teacher Fellow: Using Night to Teach about the Holocaust

E-mail: reneekap@bellsouth.net

 

Sally Levine, USHMM Teacher Fellow and Regional Education Corps: Guidelines for Teaching the Holocaust: Evaluating Holocaust Films

E-mail: sally2323@comcast.net

Guidelines for Teaching the Holocaust Using Film

Film clip from SHOAH (4:07)

The Armenian Massacre NBC News Clip (4:58)

Trailer to THE READER (2:38)

Link to USHMM Perpetrator Responsibility Lesson Plan

WEAPONS OF THE SPIRIT documentary clip (:55)

Trailer to DEFIANCE (2:25)

Link to Jewish Partisans website with lesson plans

Clip to LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL (9:47) *Don't romanticize

Clip from HITLER GIVES A CITY TO THE JEWS (:58)

Trailer from THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK (3:12)

Compilation from SCHINDLER'S LIST (2:17)

Link to Anti-Defamation League Website

Recommended Books and Other Movies:

King of the Children (book)

PBS Documentary on the Armenian Genocide

The Bielski Brothers (book)

The Partisan Song

 

Laurie Schaefer, USHMM Teacher Fellow: Web Resources for Teaching the Holocaust

E-mail: lschaefer@wsfcs.k12.nc.us

Evaluating Websites (Document)

Web Resources for the Holocaust (document)

Schaef's Webquest for USHMM Website (document)

Link to Online Version of Schaef's Webquest

Link to How to Create a Webquest

Link to USHMM Website

Link to Snopes.com (example website for evaluation)

Link to Rythospital.com (example website for evaluation)

Link to Voices of the Holocaust Webquest

Link to Holocaust Webquest from Northfield Community School

Link to The Holocaust: A Webquest by George Cassutto

Link to Remembering the Holocaust with Hyperlinked Poetry

Link to Florida's AMAZING Holocaust Web Resources list

Laura Boughton, USHMM Teacher Fellow: Teaching about Genocide: Strategies and Resources

E-mail:

Genocide Resources PowerPoint

Link to People's Century Website

Link to Every Human Has Rights

Matt Dancing Around the World Video Clip

Matt This I Believe Essay Podcast

Link to Matt's Website

Recommended Books:

Shake Hands with the Devil by Romeo Dallaire

The Devil Came on Horseback by Brian Steidle

Every Human Has Rights--National Geographic Book

Herberet Kohn, Holocaust Survivor

Referenced Book:

Hitler's Willing Executioners by Jonah Goldhagen

 

 

 

OTHER HELPFUL WEBSITE LINKS

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

NC Council on the Holocaust
Northwestern University Holocaust Art Exhibit
Dinah Babbitt's Website--Save her work from Auschwitz
Yad Vashem in Israel
German Propaganda Archive
Holocaust Cybrary--Survivor Stories
The History Place: Holocaust Timeline
About.com: The Holocaust
Teaching Tolerance
Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Modern Day Genocide--Oprah's Book Club and NIGHT

Video Clips from the Conference

 
 

 

Contact Information about the Atlanta Belfer Next Step Group 2009
Name E-mail Location Subjects Taught
Tracy Andrews  gandrews@woh.rr.com Ohio World History, American Literature Film Analysis, Holocaust Lit. & Human Rights
Laura Boughton  lboughton@spsd.k12.ms.us Mississippi Genocide course, U.S. History
Jeremy Brown brownj@walkercountyschools.com Alabama World History, U.S. History
Juan D'Arce darcej@gmail.com Florida Social Studies Middle School
Robert Fischer fisching99@yahoo.com Florida Civics, U.S. History
Ashley Goodrich goodricha@clarke.k12.ga.us Georgia World History, AP World History, U.S. History, Elective World Geography
Sara Klompus sklompus@bellsouth.net Florida Middle School
Heather LaBarbara heather.labarbara@jessamine.kyschools.us Kentucky 7th Grade Literacy/Language
Sally Levine sally2323@comcast.net Georgia Works at Breman Museum in Atlanta
Tiffany Lowe tmbwe@dadeschools.net Florida American Government, World History, Economics, American History
Mary McCullagh mmccullagh@columbushs.com Florida AP European History, AP and Honors U.S. Government
Kristi McNeal kmcneal1@cebrschools.org Louisiana English 6-12 Curriculum Specialist
Dan Penner dpenner7@msn.com Kentucky High School History and Genocide Studies
Kathy Pham kpham@dadeschools.net Florida 9th Grade Writing
Laurie Schaefer lschaefer@wsfcs.k12.nc.us North Carolina 10th Grade World Literature
Heataher Tinch htinch@hotmail.com; tinchh@k12tn.net Tennessee 6th Grade Reading & World History
Lashanda West cmsmswest@earthlink.net Miami Civics
Karen Wukovits karen.wukovits@beaufort.k12.sc.us South Carolina 10th & 11th Grade English, AP Literature, Teacher Cadet, & Holocaust Literature and Genocide

 

Link to Schaef's House.com for more Holocaust Resources

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