ARNOLD AND ESTHER TUZMAN MEMORIAL HOLOCAUST TEACH-IN:

Battling Indifference: How We Teach the Holocaust

Sunday, November 6, 2022

1:00 - 6:00 pm ET
Online and In-Person at Gratz College

Irwin Cotler and Elisha Wiesel headshots

Featuring a Dialogue with Elisha Wiesel and the Honorable Irwin Cotler

Moderated by Randi Boyette
1:00 - 2:30 pm ET
Participate Online or In-Person

To kickoff the Holocaust Teach-In's day of learning, Elisha Wiesel and the Honorable Irwin Cotler will discuss the importance of Holocaust education for protecting human rights and preventing mass atrocity. Join President Zev Eleff, moderator Randi Boyette of the Philadelphia ADL, and the Tuzman family in-person at Gratz College. Boyette will engage Wiesel and Cotler, who will be joining remotely, on the challenges and opportunities for leadership in today's world.

Through community leadership and social justice advocacy, Wiesel carries on the legacy of his late father, Elie Wiesel (Nobel laureate and author of Night). As Founder and International Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, and Canada's Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, Cotler has served as one of the world's leading human rights advocates.

All are invited to participate in this day of learning.

program

Registrants can elect to participate online via Zoom or in-person at Gratz College (7605 Old York Road, Melrose Park, PA 19027).

Opening Presentation: 1:00 - 2:30 pm

A Dialogue with The Honorable Irwin Cotler and Elisha Wiesel

Concurrent Session I: 2:45 - 3:45 pm

Breakout Session A (Open to the public)
Breakout Session B (For Middle and High School Teachers only)

Breakout Session A (Open to the public)

How to Bolster the Impact of K-12 Holocaust Education
Boaz Dvir, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications
Director, Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education Initiative, Penn State University

Session Description:
Middle- and high-schools around the country have been teaching the Holocaust since the 1970s. They have drawn from robust resources offered by universities, colleges, museums, and other nonprofits that have stepped up to make sure we remember the victims. Many of these organizations draw contemporary lessons from this unimaginable past. Yet, recent surveys show that young Americans lack “basic knowledge” about the Nazis’ murder of 6 million Jews. Why is that? What is missing? Boaz Dvir, founding director of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education Initiative at Penn State, discusses how to fulfill Holocaust education’s great promise.

Breakout Session B (For Middle and High School Teachers only)

Studying the Holocaust Through Creative Response (for Middle and High School Teachers only)
Josey G. Fisher, MSW, MAJS, Director, Holocaust Oral History Archive and Adjunct Faculty, Gratz College
Maureen Pelta, Ph.D., Professor of Art History and Curatorial Studies, Moore College of Art And Design

Session Description:
This professional development session for teachers examines classroom techniques for processing Holocaust study through the arts – using oral testimony, diaries, photographs, artifacts and other primary resources

In-person presentation with online participation option

Concurrent Session II: 4:00 - 5:00 pm

Breakout Session A (Open to the Public and CLE Credit Option for Attorneys)
Breakout Session B (For Middle and High School Teachers Only)

Breakout Session A (Open to the Public and CLE Credit Option for Attorneys)

From Pogrom to Genocide: Raphael Lemkin and the Origins of International Criminal Law
James Loeffler, Ph.D.
Ida and Nathan Kolodiz Director, Jewish Studies Program
Professor & Jay Berkowitz Chair in Jewish History, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia

Session Description:
Raphael Lemkin, the Polish Jew who coined the term “genocide,” is a hero to many contemporary international lawyers and human rights activists. Yet what little is known of his life remains shrouded in myth and misconception. In this presentation, historian James Loeffler explores the unknown origins of Lemkin’s legal thought in pre-Holocaust Poland and discusses the meaning of this legacy for the cause of global justice today.

Participants can earn one (1) substantive CLE credit.

Online presentation with in-person participation option
Online CLE participants must keep their cameras on at all times.

Breakout Session B (For Middle and High School Teachers Only)

Creating Context for Teaching Night, an Echoes and Reflections workshop
Randi Boyette, M.A., Senior Associate Regional Director, Education, ADL Philadelphia

Session Description:
Teachers will learn to prepare students to read and comprehend Elie Wiesel’s Night within the larger historical framework of the Holocaust. Educators discover materials and instructional strategies that support effective teaching of the memoir and provide additional background to integrate into classroom instruction.

In-person presentation with online participation option

Closing Panel Discussion: 5:00 - 6:00 pm
(Open to the public)

The Gratz College Holocaust Geniza Project
Presentation and Panel Discussion
This newly digitized archive provides access to primary source materials and other Holocaust-related resources and artifacts that make a significant contribution to the historical record and study of the Holocaust.

Presenters:
Donna Guerin, Director, Gratz College Tuttleman Library
Josey Fisher, Director, Gratz College Holocaust Oral History Archive
Elias Sacks, Director, Jewish Publication Society

Moderator:
Zev Eleff, President, Gratz College

Hybrid presentation with in-person and online participation options

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Tickets: $18.00
Ticket & CLE Credit for Attorneys: $54.00
Gratz Student, Faculty, Staff: Free

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Arnold and Esther Tuzman Memorial Holocaust Teach-In
The biennial Teach-In is made possible by the generosity of the late Arnold and Esther Tuzman. Arnold and Esther Tuzman each fled their homes as teens to escape the Nazis. Esther was hidden by a Polish Catholic farmer. After imprisonment in a Siberian labor camp, Arnold served in the Polish-Russian army. Still in uniform after V-day, Arnold gave a ride to a beautiful young woman named Esther. They married in 1946 and immigrated to the US in 1947. The Tuzman family is proud to support The Arnold and Esther Tuzman Holocaust Education Fund.

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