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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
 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
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
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 |
