HOLOCAUST June 25-28, 2018 EDUCATION · June 25-28, 2018 Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany ADELSON FAMILY ... Teaching the Trauma without Traumatizing – Holocaust

H O L O C A U S T E D U C A T I O N :Time, Place and Relevance

10th International Conference on Holocaust Education

June 25-28, 2018

Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany

ADELSON FAMILY FOUNDATION

TENTATIVE CONFERENCE PROGRAM

MONDAY, JUNE 25

The History Museum, Art Museum and the Visual Center will be opened to the public

until 17:00. There will be no scheduled guided tours.

12:00-17:00 Guided Tours of Two New Exhibitions

• 70 Years of the State of Israel

• Flashes of Memory - Photography during the Holocaust

14:00-16:00 The Role of Documents as a Teaching Tool – "Behind the Scenes" Tour of

the Yad Vashem Archives

Dr. Haim Gertner, Yad Vashem

20:00 Opening Ceremony at the Memorial to the Jewish Soldiers and Partisans

M.C. Ephraim Kaye

Opening Remarks:

Dorit Novak, Director General, Yad Vashem

Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, Chairman, Yad Vashem Council

Musical Performance – David D’or

TUESDAY, JUNE 26

The Holocaust – Shifting Definitions; Misrepresentations and Comparisons

MORNING SESSION – 9:00-12:00 (Simultaneous translation to Spanish & French)

Opening Remarks – 9:00-9:30

• Why the Holocaust is still Relevant after 70 Years

Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate

Presentations – 9:30-11:15

• What was the Holocaust?

Dr. David Silberklang, Yad Vashem

• The Holocaust and Other Genocides

Prof. Michael Berenbaum, American Jewish University, USA

• My Opposition: the Diary of Friedrich Kellner Dr. Robert Scott Kellner, USA

Lecture – 11:15-12:00

• Are we Still Relevant in the 21st century? The Implementation of New Yad

Vashem Pedagogical Tools and Resources for Teaching the Holocaust

Shulamit Imber, Yad Vashem

LUNCH – 12:00-13:30

AFTERNOON LECTURES – 13:30-14:30 The Holocaust – Content and Relevance

1. The Role of Churches During the Holocaust

Dr. Iael Nidam-Orvieto Yad Vashem

2. The Tension between National Narratives and the Holocaust

Dr. Rafi Vago, Tel Aviv University

3. Perpetrators of the Shoah: A Reassessment

Dr. Robert Rozett, Yad Vashem

4. Transports to Extinction: Recording Holocaust-Era Deportations

Dr. Joel Zisenwine, Yad Vashem

5. The Phenomenon of the New Antisemitism

Prof. Dina Porat, Yad Vashem

6. The Jewish Dimensions of the Holocaust

Prof. Dan Michman, Yad Vashem

7. Women in the Holocaust

Dr. Naama Shik, Yad Vashem

8. The Holocaust in North Africa

Dr. Irit Abramski

9. Memorias confrontadas: Relaciones entre polacos, judíos e isrelíes durante el

Holocausto y en tiempos recientes

Dr. Yossi Goldstein (SPANISH)

10. Auschwitz dans la conscience collective Européenne

Dr. Annette Wieviorka, historian, member of the Board of Directors of the

French "Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah" (FRENCH)

BREAK – 14:30-15:00

AFTERNOON PEDAGOGICAL WORKSHOPS – 15:00-16:30

Making the Holocaust Relevant in the Classroom

1. How Do We Approach the Phenomena of the New Antisemitism? – A New

Yad Vashem Classroom Application

Shani Lourie, Yad Vashem

2. Righteous Behavior during the Holocaust – Teaching Initiatives

Stephanie McMahon-Kaye, Yad Vashem

3. Teaching Jewish Armed Resistance in the Classroom

Mitch Braff, Executive Director, Jewish Partisan Education Foundation

4. Relevance without Trivialization – Pedagogical Challenges

Shlomit Steiner, Yad Vashem

5. Using New Yad Vashem Digital Resources (Oneg Shabbat)

Billie Shilo, Asaf Tal, Jonathan Clappsaddle, Yad Vashem

6. Teaching the Trauma without Traumatizing – Holocaust Education in Primary School

Yael Richler-Friedman, Yad Vashem

7. How Was It Humanly Possible? Teaching about the Perpetrators

Dr. Noa Mkayton, Yad Vashem

8. L'enseignement de la Shoah et l'outil audio-visuel

Yoni Berrous, Yad Vashem (FRENCH)

9. "Mi corazón está en el Oriente, y mi pincel en el fin del Occidente" – Uri Kochba un

pintor en los Campos

Nora Gaon, The Ghetto Fighters House (SPANISH)

FINAL SESSION – 17:00-18:00

Short Musical Performance

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27

What Only the Heart Can Know – Meaning & Relevance of Arts in Holocaust



• Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction

Ruth Franklin, New York University, School of Journalism, USA

• Music as a Form of Resistance

Prof. Shirli Gilbert, Director of the Parkes Institute for Jewish/non-Jewish

Relations at the University of Southampton, UK

Break – 10:30-11:00


• From Newsreels to YouTube

Liat Benhabib, Yad Vashem

• Giving Meaning to Life after Auschwitz through Art

Yehuda Bacon, Israel

LUNCH – 12:30-13:30

AFTERNOON LECTURES – 13:30-14:30

What Only the Heart Can Know – The Place of the Arts in Holocaust Education

1. Medicine in the Holocaust and Beyond – Reexamination of Fundamental Issues

and Their Relevance to the Present

Dr. Miriam Offer, Western Galilee College

2. The Use of Holocaust Films in the Classroom – Uses and Abuses

Rich Brownstein

3. Calendars in Ghettos and Camps – Marking Time in Space

Dr. Avraham (Alan) Rosen

4. Post-Holocaust Theology

Dr. Gershon Greenberg, George Washington University, USA

5. Holocaust Diaries: Echoes and Reflections Educational Materials

Sheryl Ochayon, Yad Vashem

6. Flashes of Memory - Photography during the Holocaust – A Guided Visit to the New Exhibition

Vivian Uria, Yad Vashem 7. Art as Vocation – Three Female Artists and the Holocaust

Eliad Moreh-Rosenberg, Yad Vashem

8. La Shoah en film y el cine de David Perlov: Una trayectoria cinemática por los

ejes personales e históricos, en la vida y la filmografía de David Perlov,

galardonado el Permio Israel en 1999

Liat Benhabib, Yad Vashem (SPANISH)

9. La musique sur la Shoah après la Shoah

Tamar Machado (FRENCH)

BREAK – 14:30-15:00

AFTERNOON PEDAGOGICAL WORKSHOPS – 15:00-16:00

Teaching through Arts in the Classroom

1. The Auschwitz Album: Using Visual Images in the Classroom

Nurit Davidson, Yad Vashem

2. Holocaust Art in the Classroom: Yad Vashem Video Toolbox Resource

Liz Elsby

3. Rabbinical Leadership during the Holocaust

Rabbi Moshe Cohn, Yad Vashem

4. Holocaust and Human Behavior: Incorporating New Scholarship in the

Classroom: Facing History and Ourselves

Jeremy Nesoff, Associate Program Director for Staff Development, USA

Mary Johnson, Facing History and Ourselves

5. Integrating Photographs, Literature, Art, and Poetry in the Classroom to Tell the

Human Story: Echoes and Reflections Educational Materials

Sheryl Ochayon, Yad Vashem

6. Last Letters – A Collection of Final Letters of the Victims: How Do We Use this

Resource in the Classroom?

Noam Gitin, Yad Vashem

7. Le cinéma à l'appui de l'enseignement de la Shoah

Yoni Berrous,Yad Vashem (FRENCH)

8. Arte en el Holocausto

Dalia Ofek, Yad Vashem (SPANISH)

BREAK – 16:00-16:30

FINAL SESSION – 16:30-18:00

Moderated Round Table Discussions in English, Spanish and French reflecting on the

topics of the day

THURSDAY, JUNE 28

Preservation and Commemoration: Historical, Educational, and Personal

Relevance after 70 Years


Panel Discussion – 9:00-10:00

Moderator: Dr. Iael Nidam-Orvieto

• Holocaust Museums and the Preservation of Holocaust Memory-

The Challenges: A Discussion

Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate

Dr. Piotr M.A. Cywiński, Director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

Break – 10:00-10:30


• Educational Technology in the 21st Century

Mark Lester, Director of Partnerships at FutureLearn, UK

• A World without Survivors: Different Approaches

Dr. Stephen Smith, Executive Director of the USC Shoah Foundation

• Where are We Going? Holocaust and Memory

Paul Salmons, Program Director, UCL Centre for Holocaust Education, UK

• The Implementation of New Digital Yad Vashem Pedagogical Tools

Dr. Naama Shik, Yad Vashem

LUNCH – 12:15-13:30

AFTERNOON SESSION – 13:30-14:30

Holocaust Survivors will speak about their immigration and contribution to the building

of the State of Israel.

1. Hanna Pick – Germany Moderator: Yael Eaglstein

2. Yehudit Kleinman – Italy Moderator: Nurit Davidson

3. Tibi Ram – Hungary Moderator: Irit Dagan

4. Daniel Gold – Lithuania Moderator: Shlomit Steiner

5. Elisheva Lerman – The Netherlands Moderator: Yiftach Meiri

6. Nachum and Genya Manor – Poland Moderator: Ephraim Kaye

7. Moshe Ha-Elion – Greece (Spanish) Moderator: Eliana Rapp- Badichi

8. Dora Weinberger – France (French) Moderator: Yoni Berrous

BREAK – 14:30-15:00

AFTERNOON SESSIONS – 15:00-16:30

1. Panel Discussion

Topic: Educational Challenges of Teachers in Visiting Authentic Holocaust Sites with

their Students

Moderator: Shani Lourie

1. Rachel Metalin – Upper Canada College, Toronto, Canada 2. Chris Bradbury – The King’s School, Parramatta, Australia 3. Prof. Glenn Timmermans – Macau University, China 4. Jacub Niewiński – Hipolit Cegielski Middle School, Warsaw, Poland 5. Orit Margaliot – Yad Vashem, Israel

2. Panel Discussion

Topic: Educational Challenges of Teachers in Visiting Authentic Holocaust Sites with

their Students

Moderator: Noam Gitin

1. Christer Mattsson – Goteborgs University, Sweden

2. Edelgard Baron-Krömer – St. Martin School, Sendenhorst, Germany

3. Jackie Boocock – Lycée Aragon à Givors, France

4. Ronaldas Racinskas – Director of the Secretariat, International Commission, Evaluation of the Crimes of the Nazi and Soviet Occupational Regimes in Lithuania

5. James McMillan – Enka Private School, Adapazari, Turkey 6. Nitza Shabtay-Melamed – Yad Vashem, Israel

3. Panel Discussion

Topic: Shifting Narratives of the Holocaust in Contemporary Societies

Moderator: Dr. Robert Rozett

1. Prof. Dan Michman – Head, International Institute for Holocaust Research, Yad

Vashem (Israel)

2. Prof. Michael Berenbaum – American Jewish University (USA)

3. Dr. Laurence Weinbaum – Chief Editor, The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs

(Poland)

4. Dr. Ilya Altman – Director, Educational Holocaust Center in Moscow (Russian

Federation)

5. Dr. Annette Wieviorka – Historian, Member of the Board of Directors of the

French "Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah" (France)

4. Panel Discussion

Topic: Jewish Life in the Aftermath of the Holocaust: Challenges in Jewish Education

Moderator: Rabbi Moshe Cohn

1. Rachel Urowitz – Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto, Canada 2. Rachel Fink – Jewish Free School, London, UK 3. Stephanie Klein – Heichal Menachem School in Paris, France 4. Susan Sennett – Ida Crown Jewish Academy, Chicago, USA

5. Panel Discussion

Topic: A World without Survivors: The Educational Challenges

Moderator: Richelle Budd Caplan

1. Dr. Birte Hewera – Witnesses in Education, Yad Vashem

2. Jayne Josen – Walking with a Survivor, Jewish Holocaust Center, Melbourne,

Australia

3. Edward Serotta – Holocaust Testimonies, Director, Centropa, Vienna, Austria

4. Jody Spiegel –Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program, The Azrieli Foundation,

Toronto, Canada

5. Sophie Nahum – The Last Ones, Paris, France

6. Dorothee Wein – Witnesses of the Shoah, Free University, Berlin, Germany

BREAK – 16:30-17:15

CLOSING CEREMONY – 17:15-18:00

In Memory of Izzy and Babs Asper

M.C. Ephraim Kaye

Opening Remarks – Shai Abramson, The Asper Foundation

Closing Lecture – The Impact of the Holocaust on Today's World

Prof. Yehuda Bauer, Yad Vashem

MUSICAL PERFORMANCE – 18:00-18:45

Kippalive – Celebrating 70 Years of the State of Israel