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Foundation Offers City Teachers Education Seminar On Holocaust About 50 public high school teachers and local Holocaust center staff are expected to join The Jewish Foun-dation for the Righteous (JFR) for a day-long seminar on how to use primary source documents, written by Nazi hierarchy as well as diaries and other personal documents from Jewish victims, to teach about the Holocaust. Two internationally renowned scholars, Dr. Wolf Kaiser and Dr. Robert Jan van Pelt, will lecture and lead workshops on the history of the holocaust. The seminar will take place on March 11th at the Union for Reform Judaism, 633 Third Avenue from 8:30 AM to 3:30 PM. The program is open at no charge to high school Social Studies and English teachers in the New York metropolitan area. Entitled "Why Teach About the Perpetrators," the intensive day-long program will show educators how to teach with primary sources that definitively document the Nazis' planning and implementation of the Holocaust. Analyzing primary source documents is an increasingly used and accepted tool in the classroom, because it prepares students to think critically about historical evidence. The examination of primary source documents also helps teachers debunk the widespread claims of Holocaust deniers, whose messages are widely accessible to students via the Internet. "It is important to teach students using primary source documents, so that they can differentiate between false claims and an accurate depiction of this period in history," said JFR Executive Vice President Stanlee Stahl. "The diaries and recollections of Jewish victims personalize the history of the Holocaust in a way that textbooks do not." The program will cover the possibility of drawing lessons from the history of Auschwitz and will examine the place and meaning of the camp within the historiography of the Holocaust. Program participants will explore pedagogical strategies of Holocaust education through lectures, workshops, question and answer sessions, discussion groups, and the distribution of educational materials. Renowned speakers include Professor Robert Jan van Pelt, a noted Holocaust scholar and authority on Auschwitz who served as an expert witness in the lawsuit brought by Holocaust denier David Irving against author Deborah Lipstadt and Penguin Books. Dr. Wolf Kaiser will lecture and conduct a workshop on using primary sources. Dr. Kaiser is the Deputy Director and Educational Director of the House of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin, the site of the January 1942 meeting of top Nazi officials to decide how the so-called Final Solution would be implemented. High school teachers and Holocaust center educators can reserve a space at the seminar online. Visit the JFR website at www.jfr.org/marchseminar to register. The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous was created in 1986 to provide financial assistance to non-Jews who risked their lives and often the lives of their families to rescue Jews during the Holocaust. Today, the JFR cares for over 1,200 aged and needy rescuers in 26 countries and also operates an internationally lauded Holo-caust teacher education program for middle and high school teachers and Holocaust center personnel.
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