TEACHING THE HOLOCAUST
Three-day Summer Course for Teachers
13,14 and 15 August 2018
Supported by the Teacher Education Section of the Department of Education & Skills, Ireland
and the Claims Conference, USA
N.B.This programme can be attended independently or as part of the Certificate in Holocaust Education, awarded by Trinity College, Dublin
Venue: Neill Theatre, Trinity Long Room HUB, Trinity College Dublin
Presenters:
Deborah Dwork, PhD, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Department of History, Clark University, MA.
Peter Garry, BA, MA, MEd, École Européenne 3, Brussels
Katrina Goldstone,
Anthony McElligott, BA, PhD, MRIA, University of Limerick
Paul Salmons, BSc, PGCE, Centre for Holocaust Education, University College London
Juliane Wetzel, Centre for Research into Antisemitism, Berlin
Oliver Sears, Second Generation
Guest speakers:Katrina Goldstone
Oliver Sears, Second Generation
Academic Director: Zuleika Rodgers, BA, PhD, Department of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Director Herzog Centre, Trinity College Dublin
Course Coordinator: Lynn Jackson, BA, MA, Director of Education, HETI
Draft Programme
MONDAY 14 AUGUST 2017
08.30-09.00 Registration and Coffee
09.00-09.30 Welcome and Introduction
Lynn Jackson
Certificate in Holocaust Education awarded by Trinity College
Zuleika Rodgers
09.30-09.45 Stepping Stones of the Holocaust: Glossary, Recommended reading
Lynn Jackson (HETI)
09.45-10.45 Pre-war Jewish Life: Lesson Plan
Peter Garry
10.45-11.15 COFFEE
11.15-12.30Jewish Youth in Nazi Europe
Deborah Dwork
12.30-13.30LUNCH
13.30-15.30Holocaust Timeline Workshop
Paul Salmons (UCL Centre for Holocaust Education)
15.30-16.00COFFEE
16.00-17.15Second Generation Reflections
Oliver Sears
17.15-17.45 Review– All educators
TUESDAY 15 AUGUST 2017
08.30-09.00 Morning Coffee
09.00-10.00 From Stepping Stones to Interpretations: Understanding the Holocaust
Anthony McElligot
10.00-11.00The Kindertransports:Lesson Plan: An Irish perspective
Peter Garry
11.00-11.30COFFEE
11.30-13.30Being Human: Victims, perpetrators, bystanders, resisters, rescuers
Paul Salmons
13.30-14.15LUNCH
14.15-15.15 A Boy in Terezin: The Private Diary of Pavel Weiner Deborah Dwork
14.15-15.15Waiting for Hope: Jewish DPs (Displaced Persons) after the War
Juliane Wetzel
15.15-15.45COFFEE
15.45-16.15Ireland’s Response to the Jewish Refugee Crisis, 1930s
Katrina Goldstone
16.30-17.30 Review of the day
All educators
WEDNESDAY 16 AUGUST 2017
08.30-09.00 Morning coffee
09.00-10.00 Critical Approaches to Historical Sources
Anthony McElligott
10.00-11.00Antisemitism: Current challenges: Distortion of the Holocaust
Juliane Wetzel
11.00-11.15COFFEE
11.15-12.15Why teach about the Holocaust?Current trends in Holocaust education
Paul Salmons
12.15-13.00 LUNCH
13.00-14.00PUBLIC LECTURE
“Where are you?” Looking for Loved Ones after the War
Deborah Dwork
14.15-14.45 COFFEE and CAKE
14.45-15.45Review/discussion/questions
15.45-16.00HETI programmes and materials
16.00-16.30 Concluding remarks
Zuleika Rodgers, Director (Herzog Centre, TCD)
Assignments for Certificate students
Farewell