Neville Public Museum of Brown County

Neville Public Museum of Brown County - Museum of Science, Art, and History

Event Details

In cooperation with the Neville Public Museum of Brown County, Green Bay, Wisconsin, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is sponsoring a one-day teacher workshop, free of charge, to classroom and pre-service teachers of language arts and social studies, though all disciplines are welcomed.

This workshop will focus on rationale, technology and resources for teaching about the Holocaust. Special emphasis will be placed on the exhibit, Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings, which will be on view at the Neville Public Museum, and also to survivor testimony. The workshop is free of charge; a light breakfast, lunch and teaching materials are provided, free of charge.

Participants will receive a Certificate of Participation from USHMM for this 7 hour workshop and a materials package.

Workshop Purpose

  • Explore rationales and guidelines for teaching about the Holocaust with suggestions for effective teaching
  • A historical overview of the Holocaust
  • Examine the question of "What to teach?"
  • Examine online and alternative resources that can be used to teach and research about the Holocaust
  • Explore and discuss usage of the USHMM traveling exhibition

Registration

Pre-registration is required and the workshop is limited to 130 people.

Application deadline: November 10, 2008

Questions - Contact

Dr. David Lindquist
USHMM Regional Educator
lindquid@ipfw.edu

Doug Pelton
USHMM Regional Educator
dpelton2@twcny.rr.com

Matt Welter
Curator of Education, Neville Public Museum
education@nevillepublicmuseum.org

Presenters

Guy Stern
Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Wayne State University and the Director of the Harry and Wanda Zekelman International Institute of the Righteous at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Detroit, MI.

Matt Welter
Curator of Education at the Neville Public Museum (Green Bay, WI)

David Lindquist
USHMM Regional Museum Educator and Assistant Professor of Education, Indiana University Purdue University Fort Wayne (Fort Wayne, IN.)

Darryle Clott
USHMM Museum Teacher Fellow and History Instructor, Viterbo University (LaCrosse, WI)

Featured Presenter

Guy Stern is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Wayne State University and the Director of the Harry and Wanda Zekelman International Institute of the Righteous at the Holocaust Memorial Center in Detroit, MI. He is a survivor and a witness to the May 10, 1933 Nazi book burning.

Workshop Special Feature

A tour of the USHMM traveling exhibition Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and The Nazi Book Burnings

On May 10, 1933, in a symbolic act of ominous significance, the students burned upwards of 25,000 volumes of "un-German" books, presaging an era of state censorship and control of culture. That night, in most university towns, right-wing students marched in torchlight parades "against the un-German spirit." Rituals scripted for the event called for high Nazi officials, professors, university rectors, and student leaders to address the participants and spectators. At the meeting places, students threw the pillaged and unwanted books into the bonfires with great joyous ceremony, band-playing, parades, songs, and "fire oaths."

Program

  • 7:30 - 8:15 Register and Continental Breakfast
  • 8:15 - 8:30 Welcome, Introductions
  • 8:30 - 8:55 Why Teach About the Holocaust?
  • 8:55 - 10:00 Guidelines for Teaching the Holocaust
  • 10:00 - 10:15 Break
  • 10:15 - 10:30 Resources for Teaching and Research
  • 10:30 - 11:15 Using Technology to Teach About the Holocaust
  • 11:15 - 12:00 Lunch
  • 12:00 - 12:45 Teaching Holocaust Literature
  • 12:45 - 1:15 Introduction - Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burning
  • 1:15 - 1:30 Registering School Groups Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings
  • 1:30 - 1:45 Break
  • 1:45 - 2:15 Touring - Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings
  • 2:15 - 3:00 Teaching: Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings
  • 3:00 - 3:15 Questions / Sharing
  • 3:15 - 3:30 Wrap up / Evaluation

Please Note:
A continental breakfast and lunch will be provided.
Participants will also receive a free materials package.