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Webinar | 29.03.23

On 29 March 2023, 3 pm CET we invite you for a webinar for teachers and educators in order to talk about Jewish resistance to the Holocaust as exemplified by the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising and various forms of Jewish resistance in Vilnius region (Lithuania).  

During the webinar we will present teaching resources (infographics, maps, photos) which might be used to prepare a lesson about Jewish resistance to the Holocaust. 

Speakers:  

• Justyna Majewska, PhD (Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw)  
• Daniela Ozacky-Stern, PhD (Bar-Ilan University, Western Galilee College)  

The language of the webinar is English. 

Register here: https://forms.office.com/e/c23MR9gbGX

On 19 April 2023 the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising is commemorated. 
The event is part of the international remembrance campaign: https://www.warsaw1943.pl/en/

About the speakers:

Dr. Daniela Ozacky Stern is a scholar of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. She is a lecturer at The Holocaust Studies Program at Western Galilee College, Israel, and a researcher at the Institute of Holocaust Research at Bar-Ilan University. She was the director of the Moreshet Holocaust Archive for over a decade. Ozacky Stern earned a PhD in Jewish History at The University of Haifa, studying the Jewish partisans in Lithuania and Belarus during the Holocaust. She earned a master’s degree from The School of History at Tel-Aviv University, and her thesis dealt with Nazi propaganda led by Joseph Goebbels. This Thesis was published as a book. 

Dr Justyna Majewska is sociologist and curator, works at the Research Department at the Emanuel Ringelblum Jewish Historical Institute. She contributes to the “Encyclopaedia of the Warsaw Ghetto” and “Lexicon of the Lodz Ghetto” research projects. Her latest publication is entitled „«In one of the courtyards, several tall trees and a few bushes were growing». Green spaces in the Warsaw Ghetto”, in: A Jewish Garden in the Gardens of the World Berlin, red. Philipp Nielsen, et al., Berlin: 2022. She is currently preparing a book on how sociological phenomenon of space and time were understood in the Warsaw Ghetto. 

Summary

Read the summary of the seminar for teachers “A year after. The war is still on” HERE.

New educational kit  

We present you a set of teaching resources which aim to help you plan a lesson or a school event commemorating the victims and survivors of the Holocaust.   

We prepared 4 teaching recourses on the following topics:   

1. The Different Ways Jews Were Helped during the Holocaust – lesson scenario 
   
2. The Fate of Jewish Children during the Holocaust as Exemplified by the Story of Elżbieta Ficowska’s Rescue – lesson scenario 
   
3. Commemorating the Victims of the Holocaust: Teachers guide on how to prepare school events to mark International Holocaust Remembrance Day and other events commemorating the Holocaust. 
   
4. Commemorating the Holocaust in Europe – lesson scenario 

On 27 January, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau German Nazi Concentration Camp, the International Holocaust Remembrance Day is commemorated. This day established by the United Nations might be an opportunity to introduce this topic to your students. We encourage you to plan and conduct a lesson or a school event with aim to commemorate the remembrance day.  

Before a visit to a memory site

Educational materials were prepared for the high-school students to help them gain basic knowledge before a visit to the Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum and Mauthausen Memorial Site. Materials created as part of the Sound in the Silence project – Sound in the Silence is an intercultural and international remembrance project for youth. At historically challenging locations students work with artists representing different artistic fields in order to understand how the past is connected to their questions in the present. (https://enrs.eu/sound-in-the-silence).

Clik below to see the resources

Kaunas Ninth Fort Museum, fot. Flickr, Adam Jones

Mauthausen Memorial, fot. ENRS

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