When:

July 15, 16, & 17, 2024

This virtual workshop is a must-have for all new and current educators responsible for teaching about the Holocaust in their classrooms since Act 30 took effect. Hosted by the Nathan & Esther Pelz Holocaust Education Resource Center in partnership with the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

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What to Expect:

1. Learn from experts in the field of Holocaust and genocide studies.

2. Join us as we focus on some of the untold stories within Holocaust education, including but not limited to; World War II in Nigeria, the role of women in Nazi Germany, German profit during the Holocaust, cultural resistance, and Nazis in America.

Learn about the impacts of hate speech and conspiracy theories and the ways in which you as educators can combat them. 

3. Interact with a panel of educators collaborating with the Department of Public Instruction to create Act 30 guidelines.

4. Gain information and resources about the Holocaust and context for talking about other genocides in the classroom.

5. Make connections with educators in other areas.

Who:

Middle school and high school educators of Social Studies and English Language Arts. Act 30 is specific to Wisconsin, but there may be similar Holocaust and genocide mandated education in your state. 

Cost:

$18 –  *Each registrant will have a choice between a few book titles from featured lecturers.

Time Commitment:

There will be approximately 4-5 hours of sessions per day with breaks. You will not be asked to complete assignments or readings prior to sessions. 

Professional Development Hours: 

Attending educators will be given a letter from the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction stating the number of hours that have gone towards professional development.


Featured Speakers:

Keynote Speaker Peter Hayes holds degrees from Bowdoin, Oxford, and Yale and was from 1980 to 2016 Professor of History and German and from 2000 to 2016 Theodore Zev Weiss Holocaust Educational Foundation Professor at Northwestern University. His publications have won several prizes and been translated into Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Slovak, and Spanish. His works on the Holocaust include Why? Explaining the Holocaust (2017), How Was It Possible? A Holocaust Reader (2015), The Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies (2010) that he edited with John K. Roth; and German Railroads, Jewish Souls (2020), a study of deportation trains that he and Christopher Browning assembled around two path-breaking essays by the late Raul Hilberg. He has just completed a book entitled Profits and Persecution: German Big Business in the Nazi Economy and the Holocaust, which will appear in both English and German in 2025. From 2014 to 2019, Hayes chaired the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, on which he served for a total of twenty years. An award-winning teacher, he lectures widely on German and Holocaust history in the United States and abroad.ow of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The Imperial War Museum, and Fund For Teachers, as well as a Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching recipient; in each instance his work focused on various aspects of Holocaust and genocide education. Gudgel spent six years working for the USHMM as a member of the Regional Education Corps. He co-founded the Educators Institute for Human Rights with his colleague, Drew Beiter, and served as the organization’s executive director for six years.  Presently, Gudgel’s research centers around documenting and preserving Sarajevo Roses, primary resources from the Siege of Sarajevo, and how teachers around the United States teach about genocide. 

 

Dr. Mark Gudgel is an eighteen-year veteran of teaching English, Humanities, and Genocide Studies in the public schools. Presently, he serves as assistant professor of education at the College of Saint Mary in Omaha. Gudgel is a fellow of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The Imperial War Museum, and Fund For Teachers, as well as a Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching recipient; in each instance his work focused on various aspects of Holocaust and genocide education. Gudgel spent six years working for the USHMM as a member of the Regional Education Corps. He co-founded the Educators Institute for Human Rights with his colleague, Drew Beiter, and served as the organization’s executive director for six years.  Presently, Gudgel’s research centers around documenting and preserving Sarajevo Roses, primary resources from the Siege of Sarajevo, and how teachers around the United States teach about genocide. 

 

Generously sponsored by:

In appreciation to the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (ClaimsConference) for supporting this educator training program. Through recovering the assets of the victims of the Holocaust, the Claims Conference enables organizations around the world to provide education about the Shoah and to preserve the memory of those who perished.