Echoes and Reflections
A workshop for educators

Join the Holocaust Center of Northern California, Notre Dame de Namur University and Yad Vashem for an educator workshop highlighting Echoes and Reflections. Echoes and Reflections is a multimedia curriculum drawing on extensive primary source materials including visual history testimonies to help build an authentic and complete picture of the Holocaust. The workshops featured guest educator Ephraim Kaye, Yad Vashem.

Sunday, March 7, 2010
10:00 am - 2:00 pm
Notre Dame de Namur University
1500 Ralston Avenue, Belmont

Tuesday, March 9, 2010
5:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Holocaust Center of Northern California
121 Steuart Street
San Francisco, CA 94105

Educators attend this workshop free of charge. Echoes and Reflections is a joint project of the Anti-Defamation League, the USC Shoah Foundation Institute and Yad Vashem

Our Struggle: Creating Artistic Responses to the Holocaust and Genocide
A workshop for educators

Thursday, Feb. 25th, 2010
5:00 pm -7:30 pm
Contemporary Jewish Museum
736 Mission Street, San Francisco

Tthe Holocaust Center of Northern California and the Contemporary Jewish Museum (CJM) sponsored an educator workshop that introduced Our Struggle: Responding to Mein Kampf. The new exhibition, which made its North American debut at the CJM on February 11, centers around French artist Linda Ellia's confrontation of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, in which she invited both artists and the general public to respond to the text by altering one of the book's 600 pages.

This evening program included a guided tour, a workshop, exhibition-related curriculum resources, and refreshments. The workshop looked at the exhibition material as a compelling entry point for Holocaust studies; connections between historic and present day genocides; and art as a form of social protest and civic engagement.

Educators received a copy of the curriculum and a DVD with visual aids for the classroom. As these works originated in France, a French curriculum supplement was also available.

Curriculum and teacher workshop co-developed by the Contemporary Jewish Museum and the Holocaust Center of Northern California.

Teaching with Defiance: Jewish Resistance and the Bielski Partisans

Sunday, October 18, 2009
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

This hands-on educator institute provided tools to incorporate this major motion picture into Holocaust curriculum.

This workshop was made possible by The Hellman Family Foundation and the Jewish Community Endowment Holocaust Memorial/Education Fund

Partner Organizations: Holocaust Center of Northern California; Anti-Defamation League; Bureau of Jewish Education; CA Center for Excellence on the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights, and Tolerance; The Curriculum Initiative; Facing History and Ourselves

Art as a Tool For Survival

Thursday, January 29. 2009

An educator workshop discussing unique acts of art created during the Holocaust. Taught by Morgan Blum, HCNC’s Director of Education, the workshop explored three case studies: the paintings of Charlotte Salomon, the orchestra at Auschwitz, and children's drawings in Terezín.

Fighting Back: Rescue and Resistance During the Holocaust
A Workshop for Educators

Tuesday, Nov 18, 2008

Morgan Blum introduced HCNC’s new multi-media curriculum spotlighting those who resisted the Nazis in Western Europe and saved the lives of countless Jewish victims.

Workshop attendees received classroom lesson plans and a DVD containing the video and audio testimony of Bay Area survivors and rescuers.

Women Who Fought Back!
Sunday, August 3, 2008

A workshop about the women who fought back during the Holocaust. The workshop included discussion of the themes of resistance highlighted in the films Blessed is the Match and Everyday the Impossible: Jewish Women in the Partisans.

All educators attended free of charge, and complimentary refreshments and curriculum materials were provided. Co-sponsored by the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation and Facing History and Ourselves

From Discrimination to Relocation and Deportation
Sunday, October 21, 2007

A full day workshop on different experiences during WWII. Two case studies examined the Japanese American internment and the deportation of Berlin’s Jews to the Lodz Ghetto.
All educators attended free of charge and complimentary curriculum materials were provided.
Co-sponsored by the San Francisco Japanese American Citizens League

Echoes and Reflections
Wednesday, November 14, 2007

HCNC hosted an evening training with the multi-media curriculum created by the Anti- Defamation League, Yad Vashem and the Shoah Foundation.
Workshop, Curriculum, and Video Testimonies were FREE.

Art As a Tool for Survival
Co-sponsored by A Traveling Jewish Theater and Contra Costa Midrasha
Sunday, December 9, 2007

An educator workshop exploring music, theater and art during the Holocaust.
All educators attended free of charge, and complimentary refreshments and curriculum materials were provided.