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Holocaust & Jewish Resistance Teachers Program

July 6 - 21, 2008: A summer study program in Poland and Israel for U.S. secondary school teachers.
This seminar includes educational activities in Poland and Israel with the participation of scholars from Polands' Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Israel's Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and the Study Center of the Ghetto Fighters' House at Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta'ot. [Just click on "continue reading", below, for application and further details.]

Applications are evaluated by a committee and spaces are filled on a rolling basis -- so applying early is to your advantage. All applications must reach our office no later than April 1, 2008.

Click here for the application (PDF)
NOTE if for some reason it does not appear, just email us at jlcexec@aol.com and we'll send one out asap.

Cost to the applicant is $2,300, which includes round-trip travel from New York, trips to historic sites, hotel accommodations (2 to a room) and 2 meals daily.

Payment is expected immediately upon notification of acceptance, which will contain more information on the program.

Program Goals:
** To advance education in U.S. secondary schools about the Holocaust and Jewish Resistance;
** To deepen teachers' knowledge and strengthen their ability to implement Holocaust studies in their classrooms;
** To teach each new generation about the Holocaust and Jewish resistance, so that they will know, understand and never forget;
** To further educational activities which use the lessons of the past as warnings for the present, and the future.

Curriculum includes:
** Martyrdom and the Struggle for Survival in Jewish History;
** Life in the Ghettoes and the Camps;
** The Final Solution;
** Armed Resistance and Revolt;
** Spiritual Resistance;
** Reaction of the Free World;
** The Holocaust in Literature and Art;
** Post-War Impact of the Holocaust.

CONTACT INFORMATION, AND SPONSORS

For further information contact:

Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teachers Program
c/o Jewish Labor Committee
25 East 21st Street
New York, NY 10010

tel: (212) 477-0707 email: jlcexec@aol.com

The HOLOCAUST & JEWISH RESISTANCE TEACHERS PROGRAM
is sponsored by the

American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors
American Federation of Teachers
Educators Chapter, Jewish Labor Committee

With the active support of the

Atran Foundation, Inc.
Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany
Caroline and Joseph S. Gruss Monument Funds, Inc.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

NOTE: A major part of the cost of this program is covered by very substantial scholarships arranged by the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors.