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TUESDAY JULY 8, 2008 AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS 14:30-16:00 SESSION A

Workshop Title Presenter Country Literature as testimony: Paul Celans poems during and after the Holocaust Ania Cavalcante Brazil Poetry and Teaching the Holocaust Jackie Metzger Israel “Entartete Kunst” (Degenerate Art): Nazi Aesthetics and the Campaign Against Modernism Rachel Perry Israel Art as testimony: Visual Art Representation of Deaf Jewish Painters Mark Zaurov Germany Teaching the Holocaust to multi-ethnic learning groups Noa Mkayton and Deborah Hartman Israel Courage to Care: Lessons of the past, hope for the future Claire Jankelson and Andrew Havas Australia “Without any Exceptions” Yiftach Meiri Israel New Prespective on Auschwitz : What can we learn from photographic evidence? Carly Ward USA The methodical of use the documents of a database - Reflection of Holocaust in the Ukrainian schools (Russian) Iuliia Smilyanska Ukraine How to love a child… (Russian) Sergei Bukinich Russia Antisemitism and Nationalism in Nazi Propaganda Ann Millin USA Presentation of OSCE guidelines for educators and teaching materials on addressing and combating Antisemitism Norbert Hinterleitner and Richelle Budd Caplan Poland / Israel Using music to highlight both Jewish and Nazi culture during the Holocaust Shirley Atlas Australia German Youth Movements – Hitlerjugend Joanne Druker Canada Discussing the Holocaust and Antisemitism with Muslims Jeremy Jones Australia Preserving the Past and Educating the Future: Teaching the Holocaust and Promoting Tolerance Joleen Bell Canada Identifying strategies and arguments of Holocaust deniers and revisionists Daniela Richterová Slovakia The protest of the Danish Lutheran Bishops from October 3rd 1943 Otto Ruhl Denmark Holocaust Denial on the Internet Blurring the Boundaries of Information Literacy James Goulding Australia Cyberhate: Racism’s New Frontline Michael Ettedgui Canada “Misanthropy and Pseudoscience: The Intellectual Roots of Nazi Racism” James Paharik USA “From Jokes to Despise” Zdzislawa Barankiewicz and Katarzyna Korsak Poland Declarations of Independence: Yiddish Poetry of the 1930s Alan Rosen Israel Comparing the Holocaust: Investigating a Difficult Image Robin Goldfin USA Using films in teaching about Antisemitism and Racism Orit Margaliot Israel “Mobiles Erinnern” (Mobile Remembrance) - A Transnational Project of Remembrance for the Hungarian Jewish Victims of the Death Marches Christian Gmeiner Austria Yesterday´s neighbour-Giving a better understanding of the Holocaust through regional examples Herbert Brettl Austria No fuimos como ovejas al matadero! (Spanish) Mario Sinay Israel El film: Mujeres de la Shoa + debate y materiales pedagogicos (Spanish) Graciela Jinich Argentina El genocidio Armenio y el Holocausto – paralelos y diferencias (Spanish) Julieta Puppo Argentina La politica nazi de Eutanasia – aktion T4 (Spanish) Graciela Kohan Spain

TUESDAY JULY 8, 2008 AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS 16:30-18:00 SESSION B

Workshop Title Presenter Country The American Orthodox Jewish Response to Nazi Decrees Theodore Lauer and Karen Sutton USA The use of personal stories in connecting children with the Holocaust Rene Silberman and Edna Sackson Australia Racial discrimination: a comparison between classification by the Nazi’s in the Holocaust and South Africa’s apartheid regime. Caryn Berman South Africa The Shoah and Darfur: The Call of Memory and the Promise of Never Again Jerry Ehrlich and Lauren Kempton USA Understanding the Past - the Tool that Steers the Future Michael Fryer Wales I only wanted to live Katica Dessardo Croatia From Antisemitism to Racism in Hungary 1919-1944 Chava Baruch Israel Holocaust and collective memory: Challenges, obstacles and new developments in post-1989 Poland Jolanta Ambrosewicz-Jacobs Poland Sport and Human Rights: the Case of the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games Simonetta Fontana Laura Italy Sophie Scholl and the White Rose: a case study in dissent in Nazi Germany Vicky Knickerbocker USA Teaching the Concept of Racism: Contextualizing Nazi Propaganda Films Sabine Smith USA The Inescapable Complex of Racial Identity: the Case of German Jewry, 1933-1943 Doron Avraham Israel Racial Medicine: Ethical Dilemmas of the Nazi Practice of Medicine and Research—Their Relevance Today Miriam Zimmerman USA Modern Genetics and the Jew: Eugenics in the Shadow of the Holocaust Michael Grodin USA It Is My Business: Selected History from 1933-1945 Emily Witty USA How To Teach The Holocaust Within a Limited Timeframe Dennis Nash Canada When Teachers Go Bad: Holocaust Denial, Responsibility and Freedom of Speech Clint Lovell Canada Towards an Experiential History of Racism and Prejuidice Sally Cove Australia Using process philosophy to reevaluate Christian theology and fight prejudice, racism, xenophobia and Antisemitism Miroslaw Patalon Poland Unrighteous Among the Nations: Antisemitism and the Church in the Modern Era Paul Wilkinson Great Britain Teachers in the Third Reich: Resonance and Ethics William Jr. Meinecke USA From prejudice to the”Third Reich“ Stephan Unnold Germany Who We Were and How We Remember Our Lives: Photos and Narratives of Pre-War Jewish Life Ann Weiss USA I BELIEVE-Using music performance as a learning experience in today’s multi-cultural classroom Zane Zalis Canada Charlotte’s World: A Unit for the Study of the Holocaust Donald Berry USA Teaching the Shoah in a Chinese University Glenn Timmermans China De la memoria compartida a la acción colectiva (Spanish) Matias Dodel Uruguary Pedagogía de la memoria : La enseñanza del holocausto en las escuelas medias de Bahia Blanca (Spanish) Gabriel Anmuth Argentina La 2º Guerra Mundial desde la visión del Cine a través de tres películas: Noche y Niebla, El Gran Dictador y el El pianista (Spanish) Veroniva Kovacik Argentina La enseñanza del holocausto a través de imágenes (Spanish) Maria Celeste Adamoldi Argentina

WEDNESDAY JULY 9, 2008 AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS 14:30-16:00 SESSION A

Workshop Title Presenter Country Being an Adolescent: Janos Korczak - the Man and the Educator: A workshop for Israeli Arab students Sivan Goren Israel "What is hiding in the Books? (In Memory of the Victims of the Second World War)" Silvija Krejakovic Serbia The song as the testmony of Suffering and Its Pedagogical Usage Svetlana Spajic Serbia Two Stories - One Fate: Teaching the Holocaust to students from the Former Soviet Union Yiftach Ashkenazi Israel Teaching the Holocaust in a Multi-Cultural American classroom Abbe Snyder USA Teaching the Holocaust in a United States Juvenlie Detention Center Alisa Parcells USA Taking a stand against Genocide Ellen J. Kennedy USA Holocaust Education and the Values of Society Lena Jersenius and Mikael Enoksson Sweden Bridging Education with Commemoration and Social Action: A Secular Midrash Charles Clarke, William Drumright, Barbara Lovenheim USA Literature as testimony : voices of truth Ray Shankman Canada Resistance Fighters , Saving Victims , and Never giving up Extdaordinary Courage in the Face of Evil Harriette Fleising Canada Using Holocaust Education to fight prejudice, racism , xenophobia and Antisemitism in school and society Evelyn Howard Canada Using a Comparative Genocide Approach in Community Colleges to Promote Greater Respect fot Cultural Diversity Joy Sjoberg and Vicky Knickerbocker USA Teaching the Holocaust to Teacher's College Students: Myths and Realities Trudy Zuckermann Israel Teaching the Holocaust in Multicultural Australian Classroom Anne-Louise Pociask Australia Altruism and Holocaust : A Teaching program for Gifted and Talented students at the Upper Primary level Mark Hines Australia Overcoming the Prejudice - Teaching the Holocaust to Israeli Arabs Irit Abramski Israel "Bridge Over Troubled Waters" : Painful Past in the use of Humanistic Dialogue David Netzer Israel Teaching the Holocaust in a multicultural North American classroom Scott B. Littky USA The new museum at Jasenovac as an Educational Site Julija Kos Croatia Naftali Fuerst - A Survivor of Buchenwald Joachim Wiesner Austria Topography of National Socialist Terror in Klagenfurt Nadja Danglmaier Austria It was "them" not us" - An educational unit on Antisemitism and intolerance Shira Magen Israel Memory and Transmission (French) Edith Moskovic France Preparation and work for the March of the Living (French) Coutin Willy France Education of Tolerance based in the History of Holocaust (Russian) Svetlana Zanko Ukraine Educating on a theme of Holocaust through projects and lessons (Russian) Gene Zilyte Lithuania Courageous Conversations : Combating Racism and Prejudice in a multi-cultural classroom Harriett Kisilinsky USA Changing the World / One Class at a time Linda M. Hooper USA Jewish , Arab and German Teenagers joint Holocaust Ceremony Gaby Knoll Germany Holocaust Education in German Multi-Cultural Classroom and the Potential of Creative Internet Applications Andreas Weinhold Germany El Holocuasto Aprender del pasado para construir el futuro (Spanish) Ignacio Elola Spain Educar sobre la Shoah, una experiencia plurifacética (Spanish) Jimena García Herrero Spain Identidad. Retratos de testigos de la Shoá (Spanish) Nejama Schneid Argentina La enseñanza de la Shoa: el testimonio y los dilemas de la transmisión (Spanish) Adriana Roisenstraj Argentina

WEDNESDAY JULY 9, 2008 AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS 16:30-18:00 SESSION B

Workshop Title Presenter Country Teaching the Holocaust in a multi-cultural European classroom David Lawrence-March England Creating a Holocaust Museum in the Classroom Wayne MacIntyre Canada Teaching The Holocaust in a Multicultural Setting Michael Way Skinner Canada Anne Frank - here and now: Holocaust Education in a Multi-Cultural Society Patrick Sigele Germany The Power of Good : Making the Choice - To a Be Rescuer and Not a Bystander in the Face of Prejudice Sharon Glueck USA "Lets portray the others''' - An investigation of Greek student's ideas about other people Chrysa Tamisoglou Greece "And suddenly you didn't belong there anymore" - Teaching the Holocaust in school focussing on regional history Karolina Nowak Germany Light / The Holocaust and Humanity Project 2010 Mary Lee Webeck USA Teaching the Holocaust in Multicultural Australia: Unearthing the Holocaust Mariela Sztrum Australia Open minds , tolereant hearts: Using the Holocaust as a Pastroal Care tool to address social tolerance and racial prejudice Irit Ben-Nissan Australia The Holocaust and other genocides: parallels and differences Dirk Roodzant Nether-lands Workshop Concepts for multicultural school classes Elke Gryglewski Germany The Problem and Practicalities of Programming the Holocaust in a Non-Jewish school Bridget Punch Australia What Was Lost in the Bermuda Triangle on April 19,1943? Multi-cultural Lessons in Resistance , Rescue and Responsibility Robert Moses Shapiro USA The Jews in the European Resistance Movment - A Pedagogical Knowledge of this feature of Shoah Antonella Tiburzi Italy Holocaust Literature and Multi-Media : From Theory to Practice Richard A. Gair USA Teaching Holocaust using Pop-Culture: The case of "Joy Division" Jovan Culibrk Serbia Combining Anne Frank's Diary with the Arts to Combat Prejudice in the Classroom Maureen McNeil USA The Journey: The Holocaust in a Multi-Cultural Society Anna Alpert and Christopher Anderson USA "The Holocaust - it can happen again" Parallels between the Holocaust and Apartheid Carmen Emanuel South Africa Understanding Genocide: A Secondary School Unit in Australian Literature Maria Joseph Australia Crossroads to Palestine Sa'ad Khaldi England Teaching the Holocaust and Genocide in Europe today - the challenge of anti-Zionism and Antisemitism Philip Spencer England Educational programs in the Anne Frank house for Amsterdam inner city elementary school classes Jane Redman Nether-lands Strategies for Integrating the Holocaust Into Multicultural Curriculum Linda Medvin USA Etude des préjugés antisémites dans l’Allemagne nazie entre 1924 et 1945 et leur implication dans le génocide des juifs d’Europe (French) Plaisant Renee Belgium The challenge of teaching the Holocaust to students of Muslim origin: how to overcome these difficulties? (French) Kara Tufan Belgium Teaching the Holocaust,particularly in Rwanda in the perspective of the prevention and vigilance against the genocidary ideology for the future generation (French) Thierry Sebaganwa Ukobizaba Rwanda Holocausto y valores: Una experiencia de trabajo interdisciplinar sobre el Holocausto (Spanish) Sergio Migan Spain Poniendole rostro a la historia, El mundo de Ana Frank (Spanish) Isabel Burstein Uruguary Ensenarla Shoa a traves del Arte (Spanish) Monica Barbasita Uruguary Juegoshoa (Spanish) Laura Fueguel Argentina

THURSDAY JULY 10, 2008 AFTERNOON WORKSHOPS 14:30-16:00 SESSION A

Workshop Title Presenter Country Motherhood versus extermination as reflected in the memoirs of female members of the Jewish Underground in Poland (1945 – 1998) Frumi Shchori Israel A case study: A young adolescent girl who grew upwithout a mother, in the aftermath of the Shoah Ester Golan Israel Using new media to teach the Holocaust Marc Light Australia " The use of survivor testimonies without a survivor" Sarah Forssell and Callie Carning Sweden Structures of Memory - Auschwitz in Women’s Literature Alicia Bialecka Poland Early testimonies on the Shoah written by Italian Women Alessandra Chiappano Italy Personal Testimonies in Education - Introduction of the bilingual educational website Andrea Szonyi Hungary Teaching the Holocaust :Giving Voice to Survivors through Theatre and Collaboration Brian Maxwell USA DAVKA, The Survival of a People Jacqueline Semha Gmach USA The Voices Live On - Survivor Testimony Gail Rosenthal and Fred Spiegel USA All politics are local: the impact of domestic policies on the Shoah Michael Soberman Canada "Teaching the Holocaust to Diverse Students at a Catholic College: A model to Combat Ignorance, Racism and Anti-Semitism in today’s world" Kathleen Flanagan and Harriet Sepinwall USA From Witness to Child: The Change in Shoah Commemoration Avi Cohen Australia Depicting the Holocaust in the 21st Century: Students Shape Remembrance Mor Bichler Israel "Tracing those 437,000" -A 5-day study trip with the Holocaust Memorial Center in Budapest , Hungary Tibor Pecsi and Szilvia Dittel Hungary March of Remembrance and Hope: A Description and Assessment of a Leadership Program and Mission to Poland for University Students from Diverse Backgrounds David Machlis USA Visits to Holocaust sites in Poland for Swedish students Per Hojeberg and Ronny Juhlin Sweden Teaching the Shoah in Poland: Striking the Correct Balance Eli Rubenstein Canada Composite characters, music and theater as testimony Cathy Mansfield USA Voice of the Second Generation: Survivor Legacies when there are no Holocaust survivors left Bonnie Abrams USA The Depiction of Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Movies Ido Ramati Israel The Memory Project: Connecting to Lost Ones through the Creative Process Roz Jacobs and Laurie Weisman USA For the Sake of Survival: Reading the Shoah through Biblical texts Gabriela Rozanski USA Where was God? Using survivor testimony in the classroom Linda Asquith  Great Britain March of the Living- An Educational Journey for the 18-80 Age Group: The International Adult delegation Tali Nates South Africa The effect of a one - week´s trip to a memorial site Jochen Fuchs Germany Survivor Memoirs: A Resource for 21st Century Holocaust Instruction Darryle Clott and Margaret Lincoln USA Constructing a More Humane Present and Future: Using Survivor Testimony to Create Meaningful Student-Led Learning Experiences Byron Thomas USA Fictive Literature as Testimony: Cynthia Ozick's "The Shawl" William Younglove and Keren Goldfrad USA/ Israel Literature as Testimony: Charlotte Delbo, ‘Try to Look - Try to See’ Carole Vopat USA Shoa y Tkuma  (Spanish) Yossi Goldstein Israel Holocausto, Derecho Penal y Derechos Humanos  (Spanish) Pablo Laufer Argentina El testimonio, su valor histórico y antropológico  (Spanish) Rafael Krasnogor Argentina Shoa Vezikaron  (Spanish) Pnina Waksman Argentina How can videotaped testimony be used effectively as an educational resource in classrooms around the world?  (Russian) Martin Šmok USA/ Czech Republic The music of Jewish composers who survived the Holocaust: the survey of works by E.Tyrmand, M.Wajnberg, and H.Wagner  (Russian) Inesa Dvuzhylnaya Belarus “Blessed Is the Match: The Life and Death of Hannah Senesh” Roberta Grossman and Mary Johnson USA “Autobiographical Testimony” - The Use of Testimony on Film as a Means of Teaching the Holocaust in an Age Without Witnesses Naama Shik and Aviya Salomon-Hovav Israel

WEDNESDAY   JULY 9, 2008,  20:00- 22:00, THERE WILL BE NIGHT TOURS OF JERSALEM

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