Josey G. Fisher

Director, Holocaust Oral History Archives

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Josey G. Fisher, Director of the Holocaust Oral History Archive of Gratz College, has graduate degrees in both clinical social work and Jewish studies and has focused her interdisciplinary background on Holocaust research and education for the past 26 years, in addition to maintaining a private practice. She is an instructor in Holocaust education at Gratz College, offering a graduate course in "Teaching the Holocaust" and adjunct faculty in history at Moore College of Art and Design. Additional lecture topics include oral history, memory and the interviewing process, developmental issues in teaching the Holocaust, and child and adolescent experience during the Holocaust.

She is the Holocaust Education Consultant at the Auerbach Central Agency for Jewish Education and, on three occasions, has coordinated and accompanied Philadelphia teens on the International March of the Living, an intensive Holocaust educational program to Poland and Israel. Through the Agency, she publishes a bi-annual newsletter for Holocaust educators, serves as co-coordinator of the annual Mordechai Anielewicz Creative Arts Competition, and conducts several Holocaust education workshops each year. She has served as a consultant for several Holocaust documentary and educational films. She is a member of the Pennsylvania Holocaust Education Council, the National Consortium on Holocaust Education, and serves as an emissary to the Ghetto Fighters' Museum in Israel for the International Book-Sharing Project. She received her BA and MSW from the University of Pittsburgh and her Masters in Jewish Studies with a major in Modern European Jewish History from Gratz College.

Her book, The Persistence of Youth: Oral Testimonies of the Holocaust, contains fifteen accounts of young people, drawn from the Gratz College Archive. Other publications include articles in the Jewish Exponent of Philadelphia and the Dimensions magazine of South Florida. She is also a contributor to the four volume encyclopedia The Holocaust: A Grolier Student Library edited by Geoffrey Wigoder.

 

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