Monday, July 7, 2008

Morning: At 11:30, 11:45, and at 12:30 there will be guided tours of the New Holocaust History Museum, The Reflection Center, The Visual Center, and the new exhibition “My Homeland- Holocaust Survivors in Israel”
Buses will pick up the participants that want to take part in these activities at the various hotels at 10:45 and 11:45 respectively.

Afternoon: This session, which is open to all conference participants, will take place in the Auditorium of the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem

14:00- 16:00 The Association of Holocaust Organizations (AHO) will hold a special meeting to discuss:
Teaching the Holocaust to Non-Traditional Audiences: Results and Applications
Chairperson: Mark Weizman, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Panel:
Richard Freedman
Cape Town Holocaust Center, South Africa
Raya Kalisman
Ghetto Fighters’ House, Israel
Dr. David Machlis
March of Remembrance and Hope, Canada
Daniel Reich
Holocaust Museum and Learning Center, St. Louis, MO, USA

16:00 - Buses will take the participants back to the hotels.
19:30 - Buses will take the participants from the hotels to Yad Vashem for the opening ceremony.

Evening: 20:30
The Opening Ceremony will take place at the Monument to the Jewish Soldiers and Partisans Who Fought Against Nazi Germany.

Master of Ceremonies: Michael Greenspan
Speakers:
Professor Yuli Tamir, Minister of Education, Israel
Avner Shalev, Chairman of the Yad Vashem Directorate
Dorit Novak, Director, The International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem

Musical Interlude: Dudu Fisher Musical director: Dror Alexander

The Ramat Gan Municipality Children’s Mouth Harmonica Orchestra in memory of Shmuel Gogol, conducted by Alex Reiss

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

The Morning Session will take place in the Jerusalem International Convention Center (The Teddy Auditorium)
Buses will pick up the conference participants at the hotels at 07:45

09:00-11:00

Simultaneous translation to Spanish, Russian and French will be provided.
Morning Topic: Racism and Antisemitism in the 19th and 20th Centuries – the Prelude to Destruction
Chairperson: Dr. Doron Avraham, Director of the European Department, Yad Vashem

Speakers:
Professor Omer Bartov - John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History and Professor of History and German Studies, Brown University, USA
Title of presentation: “Antisemitism, the Holocaust, and Reinterpretations of National Socialism”
Professor Susan Benedict – Medical University of South Carolina, USA
Title of presentation: From Caring to Killing: Nurses and Physicians in the Third Reich
Professor Wolfgang Wippermann, Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany
Title of presentation: "Extermination by Education: Antisemitism and Racism in German Textbooks 1919-1945"
Professor David Bankier, Director, Research Institute, Yad Vashem, Israel
Title of presentation: “Dialectics of Holocaust Uniqueness and its Negation"

11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:30-12:30 Breakout sessions –

The conference participants will be divided into 15 discussion groups. They will be conducted in English, Spanish, Russian and French.

Kay Andrews, Holocaust Education Trust, United Kingdom
Dr. Mary Johnson, Facing History and Ourselves, USA
Jeremy Jones AM, Australia
Dr. Stephen Smith, Beth Shalom Holocaust Centre, England
Yvonne Schuchmann, Hungarian Ministry of Education and Culture, Hungary
Piotr Trojanski, Pedagogical University, Cracow, and Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum, Poland
Dr. Irit Abramsky, ISHS, Yad Vashem, Israel
Dr. Doron Avraham, ISHS, Yad Vashem, Israel
Dr. Noa Mkayton, ISHS, Yad Vashem, Israel
Yael Richler, ISHS, Yad Vashem, Israel
Naama Shik, ISHS, Yad Vashem, Israel
Noa Sigal (Russian), ISHS, Yad Vashem, Israel
Dr. Alain Michel (French), ISHS, Yad Vashem, Israel
Mario Sinay (Spanish), ISHS, Yad Vashem, Israel
Graciela Jinich and Henar Corbi , (Spanish) Argentina and Spain

12:30 The participants will be bused to Yad Vashem

12:30-14:30 LUNCH BREAK at Yad Vashem

14:30-18:00 Afternoon Educational Workshops in the International School for Holocaust Studies

18:00 Return to the Hotels

Wednesday, July 9, 2008

Thursday, July 10, 2008

The Morning Session will take place in the Jerusalem International Convention Center (The Teddy Auditorium)
Buses will pick up the conference participants at the hotels at 07:45

09:00-11:00
Simultaneous translation to Spanish, Russian and French will be provided.
Morning Topic: Building a Better World – The Legacy of the Survivors and Celebrating Israel in its 60th Year

Chairperson: Dorit Novak, Director, The International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem

Professor Hanna Yablonka - Historian, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Title of presentation: After the Shoah- Chosing to Go Forward
Samuel Bak - Artist ,USA
Title of presentation: Icons of Loss- The Image of the Warsaw Boy in the Art of Samuel Bak
Avner Shalev, Chairman, Yad Vashem Directorate, Israel
Title of presentation: Perpetuating the Legacy of the Survivors for Future Generations: The Challenges for Yad Vashem
Major General Ido Nechushtan – Commander of the Air Force, Israeli Defense Forces, Israel
Title of presentation: “ Witnesses in Uniform” - Confronting the Past - IDF Trips to Poland

11:00-11:30 COFFEE BREAK

11:30-12:30 Breakout sessions-

The conference participants will be divided into 15 discussion groups. They will be conducted in English, Spanish, Russian and French.

12:30 The participants will be bused to Yad Vashem

12:30-14:30 LUNCH BREAK at Yad Vashem

14:30-16:00 Afternoon Educational Workshops in the International School for Holocaust Studies

16:00-17:00 Conference Reception in the “Square of Hope” (Kikar Hatikva)

17:00-18:00 The Closing Ceremony

The closing ceremony will take place in the “Square of Hope” (Kikar Hatikva)

Master of Ceremonies: Ephraim Kaye

Keynote Lecture in memory of Dr. Israel Asper:

Professor Yehuda Bauer - Academic Advisor, Yad Vashem, Israel
Title of presentation: The Holocaust and the State of Israel

Musical Interlude: Valeria Ventura with the Atar ensemble members