Examining the Holocaust

REGISTRATION DEADLINE:  March 30, 2012

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Substitute pay will be provided for public school teachers attending the workshop. 

We are pleased to inform you that middle and high school social studies, language arts and English teachers in your county are invited to attend a multi-county teacher workshop on Learning and Teaching about the Holocaust. This workshop will be held at Western Region Education Service Alliance (WRESA) at 1459 Sand Hill Road in Enka on the AB Tech Enka Campus. This workshop is of particular interest to social studies teachers teaching American history or world history and sixth-grade teachers teaching about Eastern Europe. It is also of interest to language arts teachers teaching the Diary of Anne Frank in the middle grades or Elie Wiesel's novel about the Holocaust, Night or other literature of the Holocaust at the high-school level. All workshop participants will also receive copies of the resource guide The Holocaust: A North Carolina Teachers' Resource, published by the N.C. State Department of Public Instruction in cooperation with the North Carolina Holocaust Council.

Invited speakers for this one-day conference are Morris Glass, a survivor of the Auschwitz death camp in Poland or Zohara Boyd, a hidden child and Peter Petschauer, son of a Nazi SS officer. Holocaust scholar Dr. Karl Schleunes, chair of the History Department at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and author of The Twisted Road to Auschwitz and Legislating the Holocaust: The Nuremberg Laws is the other featured presenter. The workshop will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., April 5, 2012.  Substitute pay will be provided for public school teachers attending the workshop. 

If you have any questions, please contact Linda Scher at brisket234@aol.com.  For registration questions, please contact kcarver@wresa.org.