History and Memory:
Using Witness Testimony
to Teach the Holocaust

CHANGE OF DATES

July 9-11, 2008
8:30 am - 4:30 pm

Jewish Community Campus
Multi-Activity Room
Overland Park, Kansas

This course approaches Holocaust history from the perspective of primary source testimony, with emphasis on local Kansas City survivors in the Witness to the Holocaust Archive at the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education. Special attention will be paid to analyzing different types of testimony, determining the role of memory in history, and personalizing the Holocaust through effective integration of testimony into Holocaust education.

Participants will experience cross-curricular teaching techniques appropriate to Holocaust education, become familiar with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Guidelines for Teaching the Holocaust, and gain hands-on practice with primary source analysis. Teachers will leave this course with increased personal knowledge of Holocaust history, usable classroom activities, age-appropriate resources, and a familiarity with the recorded testimonies of local Holocaust survivors.

Content and activities are appropriate for junior high, middle school, and high school educators ONLY. A course fee of $10 will cover all handouts and compiled materials. The course will be taught by MCHE’s Jessica Rockhold through Ottawa Univeristy.

This course is being taught at the Jewish Community Campus in Overland Park, Kansas. Click here for directions to the campus.

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