Monday, July 7, 2008

Afternoon:
The Association of Holocaust Organizations will hold a special meeting to discuss:
Topic: Teaching the Holocaust to Non-Traditional Audiences: Results and Applications

Evening:
The Opening Ceremony at Yad Vashem will take place at the Monument to the Jewish Soldiers and Partisans who Fought Against Nazi Germany

Tuesday, July 8, 2008
Morning Topic: Racism and Antisemitism in the 19th and 20th Centuries – the Prelude to Destruction


Professor Omer Bartov - John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History and Professor of History and German Studies, Brown University, USA
Professor Susan Benedict – Medical University of South Carolina, USA
Professor David Bankier,
Director, Research Institute, Yad Vashem, Israel
Professor Wolfgang Wippermann,
Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany

Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Morning Topic: Teaching the Holocaust in a Multi-Cultural Society – Combating the Phenomena of Racism and Prejudice in the Classroom

Dr. Stephen Smith - Founding Director, Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre, Nottingham, England
Dr. William Meinecke - Historian, Education Department, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, USA
Dr. Mary Johnson
- Senior Historian, Facing History and Ourselves, USA
Hon. Daniel Rafecas Esq. - Federal Judge, Argentina
Professor Bodo von Borries
- Professor of Education, University of Hamburg, Germany
Shulamit Imber- Pedagogical Director, The International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem, Israel

Thursday,  July 10, 2008
Morning Topic:  Building a Better World – The Legacy of the Survivors and Celebrating Israel in its 60th Year

Professor Hanna Yablonka - Historian, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Avner Shalev,
Chairman, Yad Vashem Directorate, Israel
General Ido Nechushtan - Head of the Plans and Policy Directorate, Israeli Defense Forces,
Samuel Bak - Artist ,USA

Evening:
The closing ceremony will take place in the Valley of the Communities in the presence of Miri and Sheldon Adelson

Keynote Lecture: Professor Yehuda Bauer - Academic Advisor, Yad Vashem, Israel

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