Student Day
Navigating Challenging Stories:
Exploring the Holocaust and Antisemitism in 2024
Register once for all sessions and pop in and out as you please! All sessions will be recorded and available to registrants in the future.
VIRTUAL & FREE. All teachers/students welcome.
View the program for the event below. ​
May 6, 2024
All Day
PRESENTING ORGANIZATIONS, AUTHORS & SPEAKERS:
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Andy Reti, Holocaust Survivor
Anne Frank House
Carrying Holocaust Testimony from Generation to Generation
Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship (CHES)
Classrooms without Borders
Corinne Promislow, Author and Educator
Echoes and Reflections
Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Canada
Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre (JHGC)
JTeach
Kathy Kacer, Author
Montreal Holocaust Museum
Pinchas Gutter, Holocaust Survivor
Sameea Jimenez, Author
USC Shoah Foundation
Yad Vashem - The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
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Program
All times are in Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)
Grades 4-6
Grades 7-9
Grades 10-12
9:00 - 10:00am
Heroes of the Holocaust: Celebrating well-known and not so well-known rescuers
Kathy Kacer
(Gr. 4-6)
Online Tour of the VR-Secret Annex in the Anne Frank House
Aaron Peterer
(Gr. 7-12) - Combined
10:00 - 11:00am
Life in Hiding Workshop
Antoine Simonato, Montréal Holocaust Museum
(Gr. 4-6)
The Story of Aharon Barak: A True Story of Hope, Survival, Strength and Resilience
Lori Gerson, Yad Vashem
(Gr. 7-9)
Why Didn't Antisemitism End with the Holocaust?
Jennifer Goss, Echoes and Reflections
(Gr. 10-12)
11:00 - 12:00pm
The Long Road to Justice: The Story of Simon Wiesenthal
Melissa Mikel, Friends of Simon Wiesenthal Canada
(Gr. 4-6)
Embracing Challenging Stories from the Holocaust: Without traumatizing or retraumatizing ourselves, and revictimizing victims and survivors
Mduduzi Ntuli, Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre (JHGC)
(Gr. 7-9)
How One Thousand Years of Popular Media Led to Antisemitic Discrimination and Terror
Kate Lukaszewicz, Classrooms Without Borders
(Gr. 10-12)
12:00 - 1:00pm
What Does Hate Look Like?
Corinne Promislow & Sameea Jimenez
(Gr. 4-6)
What is Antisemitism? A Facilitated Student Activity
Jennifer Goss, Echoes and Reflections
(Gr. 7-9)
Resistance during the Holocaust
Antoine Simonato, Montreal Holocaust Museum
(Gr. 9-12)
1:00 - 2:00pm
Legacy - Exploring Family Stories
Raquel Diaz Serralta, USC Shoah Foundation
(Gr. 4-6)
Holocaust Story About the Survival of Myrna Sandler and her Incredible Rescuers told by Josh Gerstein
Josh Gerstein, Carrying Holocaust Testimony from Generation to Generation
(Gr. 7-9)
Ted's Story
Alyssa Novick, Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship (CHES)
(Gr. 10-12)
2:00 - 3:00pm
Discussion with Holocaust survivor, Andy Reti interviewed by Cindy Kozierok
(Gr. 4-6)
Discussion with Holocaust survivor, Pinchas Gutter, Interviewed by David Krygier-Baum
(Gr. 7-12)
A New Generation of Witnesses
Rabbi Corey Margolese
(Gr. 7-9)