Carrie McCallum, member of the Oregon Holocaust Resource Center, was selected to participate in the 2011 Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teacher’s Program. As part of this three-week program, McCallum visited the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC, Yad Vashem in Israel, and concentration camps in Poland and Germany. Read more about her experience here.

District Bilingual Coordinator Lori Menning welcomed Henry Golde, Holocaust survivor and author of Ragdolls to her school in New London, WI. Mr. Golde presented to an audience that included bilingual students, Culture Club members, and faculty. Read more about his visit here.

Students in an elective African American Literature class were excited to meet with 99-year old Lotte Frankel, who survived the Holocaust in hiding in Yugoslavia and France. Debra Maller arranged the visit, Frankel’s first time speaking about her experience in public, with the support of the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education. Read more about [...]

Three former summer seminar participants led a six-day satellite seminar at Western Michigan University in August of 2011. The program was attended by teachers from across the state with the support of every Writing Project site in Michigan. Read the article here.

As part of their study of the Holocaust, McConnellsburg Middle School students heard from Melitta Stein, who was born in Czechoslovakia and was the only member of her family to survive the Holocaust. Read the article here.

Memorial Library founder Olga Lengyel’s gripping testimony, Five Chimneys, has been released in a Spanish-language edition for the first time since its original publication in 1947. Read an article about it (text in Spanish) here.