Members of the Holocaust Educators Network are encouraged to apply for mini-grants of up to $1000 for projects that will benefit students, schools, and local communities. Past recipients have used these funds to help support visits from Holocaust survivors, community-wide reading programs, and cultural-exchange endeavors – projects that raise awareness and create change in teachers’ own backyards.
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California
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Pam Bodnar year: 2008 school: Marsh Junior High School, Chico, CA
Pam Bodnar, who will also lead one of the Library’s 2011 Satellite Seminars, was the recipient of two mini-grants. In the spring of 2009 and 2010, Bodnar brought students in the Marsh Junior High School Peer Mediation Program, which is dedicated to promoting peace and respect on campus and in the community, to meet with Holocaust survivors Monique and Jay Frankston. The visits formed part of a larger curriculum aimed at establishing a historical perspective from which to understand social injustice, which in turn helps the mediators to transmit the message to “Speak Up” against injustice to their fellow students.
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Idaho
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Diane Williams and Angela Harvey-Dugan year: 2007/2008 school: ANSER Charter School, Les Bois Junior High School, Boise
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Kentucky
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Risha Mullins, Nicole Jenkins, Casi Owens and Stephanie Smith year: 2008/2009 school: Owensboro Middle School, Glasgow Middle School, Montgomery County High School, Kentucky
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Michigan
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Heather Hollands and Amy Laitinen year: 2007/2009 school: Gwinn High School, Gwinn, MI
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New Mexico
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Leslie Lawner and Melissa Jones Witt year: 2007/2008 school: Sidney Gutierrez Middle School, New Mexico Military Institute, Roswell, NM
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Ohio
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Sue Fletcher Assistant Professor of Communications year: 2009 school: Hocking College, Nelsonville, OH
In February 2010, Sue Fletcher, along with seven students from her freshman composition course, visited the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum with support from the Memorial Library. As part of their Holocaust studies and in preparation for the visit, Ms. Fletcher and her students read Olga Lengyel’s Five Chimneys. In an effort to bring their learning back to their own community, the college students produced two presentations on the theme “Remember What You Saw” to seniors at Tri County Career Center, a career and technical high school in Nelsonville. In recognition for their work, Ms. Fletcher and her students received a newly-created honor from Hocking College, the "We are One Hocking Cross Cultural Award."
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South Dakota
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Jan Hausmann year: 2008 school: Mount Marty College, Yankton, South Dakota
In the summers of 2009 and 2010, the Dakota Writing Project, with support from the Memorial Library, hosted the “DWP Holocaust Institute: Exploring the Issues of Cultural Trauma, Identity, and Resilience in the Jewish and Native American Communities” at the University of South Dakota, Vermillion, where participating teachers developed unit plans about the Holocaust and American Indian genocide while considering shared questions about identity, trauma, and loss. Highlights included a screening and discussion of Au Revoir Les Enfants, a panel of past Memorial Library Summer Seminar participants, and meetings with a research librarian at the University of South Dakota.
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