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Educational Resources

The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies maintains a vast resource library and provides links to educational websites, organizes workshops, arranges university speakers and lends expertise to help educators of grades k-16 better teach the Holocaust and other genocides in the classroom.

2013 Summer Institute for Secondary Educators

The Holocaust in European Memory

July 8-11, 2013
Room 710 Social Sciences
9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Registration deadline: June 24, 2013

How did the Nazi murder of European Jews become "The Holocaust"? How is this story conveyed through public memorials, school curricula, art, literature and film? How has the Holocaust been contextualized and rendered meaningful within the diversity of European nations and in the distant US? And what are its implications for teaching the Holocaust in the classroom?

Instructors:
Alejandro Baer, Director and Stephen C. Feinstein Chair, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota
Leslie Morris, Associate Professor, Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch, University of Minnesota
Joachim J. Savelsberg, Professor Department of Sociology, University of Minnesota
Elizabeth Baer, Professor English, African Studies, Gustavus
Jodi Elowitz, Outreach Coordinator, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota

Cost: $100 includes all parking, materials, field-trips and lunches

CEUs: 30

Optional on campus housing available for $300

To register click here.

For more information on the Institute contact outreach@umn.edu.

CANCELLATION DEADLINE: If you need to cancel your registration, a refund minus $20 will be issued to you if you cancel in writing to Deborah LeClaire outreach@umn.edu by June 24, 2013. If you cancel after this date, you will not be eligible for a refund.

CHGS Teaching Resources

Teaching Resource Guides

Diplomatic Rescuers and the Story of Feng Shan Ho: Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre

Solly Ganor: Light One Candle: A Child's Diary of the Holocaust (PDF): Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre

Women of Ravensbrück - Portraits of Courage: Florida Holocaust Museum

Ships to Nowhere: Queensborough Community College

Archived CHGS Lessons and Study Guides