The Speakers Bureau

Each year HCNC’s signature program – the Speakers Bureau – makes it possible for more than 10,000 Bay Area students and adults to hear eyewitness accounts of the Holocaust. Survivors, hidden children, partisans and liberators speak at the Holocaust Center and in classrooms, assemblies, churches, synagogues and to community groups. For more information or to request a speaker, visit our Speakers Bureau page.

Educational Materials

HCNC’s resources for teachers include: a 15,000 volume library, archives containing personal papers, government records, artifacts and photographs, bibliographies, slides, films, posters, a Teacher Resource Center (complete with thematic boxes containing multi-media sources available for loan), one on one consultation with HCNC’s Director of Education, Morgan Blum, and curriculum and lesson plans.

View “Eugenics, Propaganda, and the Rise of the Third Reich”, a sample lesson created by Director of Education, Morgan N. Blum using HCNC’s archival sources (November 2005).

Educator Workshops

One day Educator Workshops on the Holocaust and patterns of genocide combine academic growth with innovative teaching strategies to help educators deign lessons that encourage students to develop critical thinking skills, and the ability to relate the lessons of the Holocaust to their own lives.

For information about educator workshops, contact Morgan Blum at mblum@hcnc.org or visit our Educator Workshops page.

Day of Learning: a Community-Wide Program about the Holocaust and Genocide for Students, Educators and Adults

Day of Learning is an annual community event. This special educational forum honors Holocaust survivors and those who perished, and is dedicated to teaching the lessons of the Holocaust and genocide to future generations. The Day of Learning is an opportunity for students, educators and adults to participate in interactive workshops about the Holocaust and genocide. More than 400 youth and adults attended the 2007 Day of Learning 2007. For more information contact Morgan Blum at mblum@hcnc.org.

Teachers Resource Center

Curriculum boxes containing: lesson plans, books, pamphlets, slides, videos, DVDs, posters, music and art are available for circulation. The Teacher Resource Center was developed to supplement an educator’s overview lesson on the Holocaust.

Boxes are available on the following themes:

• Eugenics, Propaganda, and the Rise of the Third Reich
• Life in the Ghettos
• Terezín (Theresienstadt)
• Kindertransport
• Dehumanization
• The Jewish Partisans
• Patterns of Genocide

To learn more about how curriculum boxes can be used and the specific contents of each box please contact Morgan Blum at mblum@hcnc.org.