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Combating
Antisemitism
Teaching the Holocaust to Future
Generations
Through Our
Eyes
Recent Highlights at the
International School for Holocaust Studies
From
Crisis to Hope
Recent Highlights at the
International School for Holocaust Studies
During the first third of 2004, the
International School for Holocaust Studies conducted six
seminars for teachers from abroad attended by teachers from
Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, Russia and the Ukraine,
English-speaking teachers, and Jewish teachers from the CIS (in
conjunction with the Jewish Agency and Lohamei Hagetaot).
Seminar days were also held for hundreds of “birthright”
students—groups of young Jewish people from the Diaspora who come
to Israel to strengthen their Jewish identity and connection to
Israel—as well as for other local audiences including teachers,
students, teachers in training, school principals and Ministry of
Education superintendents.
Events and seminars were held to mark
the 10th of Tevet (the Jewish universal Day of
Mourning) on “Those who Risked their Lives—Saving Others in the
Holocaust,” with the participation of some 2,000 junior high and
high school students, as well as youth movement members.
In February, a training course for
youth guides traveling to Poland commenced, and will
continue once a week until September. In the same month, a seminar
was held for staff of the “Green Leaf” project who will
accompany a delegation of Israeli youth to Poland. A modular
historical-experiential program for students traveling to Poland
was held in March under the auspices of the Ministry of Labor
and Social Affairs. In addition, an IDF delegation of
200 soldiers underwent two days of intensive preparation before
their trip to Poland and Riga.
A course of seminars, supported by the
Fund in Memory of Dolly Steindling, was held for senior members of
the security forces—IDF officers, police and GSS
personnel—in advance of Holocaust Remembrance Day.
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