Seminar for Teachers from Austria July 5-18, 2008 Room: Ostfeld Hall (6. to 11.7.) and Room 17 (13.-18.7.) Tentative Saturday, July 5 Arrival at airport Ben Gurion, transfer to Jerusalem, Guided Jerusalem Tour (luggage stays in the bus) check- in in the Shalom Hotel Sunday, July 6 Yad Vashem getting acquainted with the site and it concept 08:30-10:00 Opening of the seminar: Welcome and first orientation in Yad Vashem 10:30-12:00 The educational concept of the International School for Holocaust Studies N.N., European Department, ISHS, Yad Vashem, 13:00-14:30 Individual exploration of the Yad Vashem campus only 14:30-14:45 Break 14:45-16:15 Guided Tour of the Yad Vashem campus: Warsaw Ghetto Square, Avenue of the Righteous, Hall of Remembrance, Memorial to the Deportees, Partisan Memorials, Children s Memorial, etc. 16:15-16:45 Break 16:45-17:30 Reflection on the concept of Yad Vashem Monday, July 7 Historical aspects of Jewish life before and during the Holocaust 09:00-10:30 Learning about the prewar Jewish European culture and life N.N., Yad Vashem 10:30-11:00 Break 11:00-12:30 Jewish German Culture in the Modern Era before the Holocaust (Prof. Jacob Hessing, Hebrew University) 12:30-13:30 Lunch break 13:30-15:30 Headphone pick up and tour of the New Historical Museum N.N., European Department, ISHS, Yad Vashem 15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-17:00 Individual Visit of the New Historical Museum 17:00-17:15 Break 17:15-18:00 Reflections, first impressions on the Museum s concept Evening: Opening Ceremony of the International Educators Conference at the Monument to the Jewish Soldiers and Partisans in Yad Vashem. Optional Tuesday, July 8 Racism and Anti-Semitism in the 19 th and 20 th Century Prelude to Destruction 08:30-12:00 Participating at the Int. Educators Conference Professor Omer Bartov - John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History and Professor of History and German Studies, Brown University, USA Professor Susan Benedict Medical University of South Carolina, USA Professor David Bankier, Director, Research Institute, Yad Vashem, Israel Professor Wolfgang Wippermann, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany Schedule to be announced 13:00-14:30 Workshop: Doch die Geschichte endete anders N.N, Yad Vashem (Will take place in OstFeld in the Valley of the Communities) 14:30-14:45 Break 14:45-16:00 Presentation of the workshop: Deportations: Perpetrators, Bystanders, and Victims (will take place in Room 1 in the Valley of the Communities) N.N., European Department, ISHS, Yad Vashem 16:15-16:45 Break 16:45-17:30 Debriefing 19.00 Evening with Israeli Austrians
Wednesday, July 9 Challenges in the classroom 08:30-12:45 Participating at the Int. Educators Conference Dr. Stephen Smith - Founding Director, Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre, Nottingham, England Dr. William Meinecke - Historian, Education Department, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, USA Dr. Mary Johnson - Senior Historian, Facing History and Ourselves, USA Hon. Daniel Rafecas Esq. - Federal Judge, Argentina Professor Bodo von Borries - Professor of Education, University of Hamburg, Germany Shulamit Imber- Pedagogical Director, The International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem, Israel Schedule to be announced 12:45-13:45 Lunch break 13:45-16:00 Presentation, workshops and discussion of ISHS teaching units in groups 13:45-14:15 - Short introduction of the ISHS concept for age appropriate teaching of the Holocaust 14:15-16:00 - Short presentation of teaching units for younger age levels ( I Wanted to Fly Like a Butterfly, Martha) - Discussion on the ISHS concept for age-appropriate teaching of the Holocaust 16:00-16:30 Break 16:30-18:00 Workshop on comics Maus.
Thursday, July 10 The Victims, Bystanders and Perpetrators 08:30-10:00 Multi Methodic workshop for High School Units including discussion on the educational concepts of the teaching units 10:30-12:00 The Final Solution and Operation Reinhard N.N, Yad Vashem 13:00-14:30 Session 1 with Nathan Kellermann 14:30-15:00 Break 15:00-18:00 Workshop with survivors (N.N, N.N, N.N) 15:00-15:30 Introduction 15:30-17:30 Meeting with the survivors. 17:30-18:00 Reflection of the meeting (This session will take place in Room 17 of the ISHS) Friday, July 11 Saturday, July 12 Sunday, July 13 Monday, July 14 Tuesday, July 15 Wednesday, July 16 Trip to the North Trip to the North Visit the Ghetto Fighters Kibbutz Visit the Ghetto Fighters Kibbutz Visit the Ghetto Fighters Kibbutz Off to Tel Aviv Program in Tel Aviv: Bauhaus-Tour, Club for former Austrians, Gideon Eckhaus. 20:00 Check in at the Shalom Hotel
Thursday, July 17 08:30-10:00 Holocaust and Genocides (Prof. Yehuda Bauer, Yad Vashem) 10:30-12:00 Session 2 with Nathan Kellermann 13:00-14:00 Righteous Among the nations 14:00-14:15 Break 14:15-14:45 The Yad Vashem website, including the Victims names Database: a practical introduction in the multi-media room 14:45-15:15 Break 15:15-16:15 Israeli Society and the Holocaust workshop 16:15-16:30 Break 16:30-17:45 Anti-Semitism or legitimate criticism on Israel meeting with N.N, correspondent daily newspaper N.N 20:30 Farewell Dinner Friday, July 18 08:30-10:00 How to approach Holocaust denial in class: history of the denial in real life and the Internet as an instrument in current Anti-Semitism 10:30-11:30 Session 3 with Nathan Kellermann 11:30-12:30 Concluding Discussion and evaluation of the Seminar Departure for Vienna