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Special International Projects
The Asper International Holocaust Studies Program, established in April 2002, supports a biannual international conference on Holocaust education, professional development seminar for teachers in Israel and abroad as well as an international forum for educators held every two years at the International School for Holocaust Studies.
As a result of the generous support of the Asper Foundation, Winnipeg, Canada, major efforts have been made over the past few years to promote Holocaust education. It appears that teachers not only need to learn more about the facts of what happened during the Holocaust, but also be better equipped on how to approach the teaching of this difficult and complex subject matter in their classrooms. Our mission is to provide teachers with study seminars and in-service training courses that include both factual knowledge and pedagogical guidelines on how to teach the Holocaust.
If you would like to receive more information about the organization of these in-service training seminars, please contact
Richelle Budd Caplan, Director of the Asper International Holocaust Studies Program.
For the mid-year 2007 summary,
click here
For more information on the Asper Foundation,
please click here.
Addressing Contemporary Antisemitism: Why and How?
Guidelines for Educators
These guidelines, developed by Yad Vashem and
the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the OSCE,
have been designed to help educators address incidents of
contemporary antisemitism that they encounter in their schools.
For a copy of the guidelines in English,
click here.
The Task Force
The Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance and research consists of representatives of government as well as governmental and non-governmental organizations. Member states work together to promote and support projects on Holocaust education, commemoration and research on national and international levels. The Israeli delegation to the Task Force is comprised of representatives of the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Yad Vashem experts.
Initiated by Swedish Prime Minister Göran Perrson in 1998, the Task Force currently has 20 member states. For more information on the Task Force, please
click here.
Working with the UN
Yad Vashem is currently planning to coordinate an international
forum for representatives of UN information centers in Fall 2007.
This forum will include tours of the campus, lectures with
world-renowned scholars and experts and meetings with Holocaust
survivors. This special program will be organized in conjunction
with the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme.
The
Holocaust and the United Nations outreach programme seeks to remind
the world of the lessons to be learnt from the Holocaust in order
to help to prevent future acts of genocide. The outreach programme
was created at the request of the United Nations General Assembly
in its resolution 60/7, adopted on 1 November 2005. The United
Nations Department of Public Information (UNDPI) has created a
broad initiative to encourage the development by United Nations
Member States of educational curricula on the subject of the
Holocaust, and to mobilize civil society for education and
awareness.
On January 29, Yad Vashem, the USC Shoah Foundation and the CDJC in
Paris launched a new
website at the UN General Assembly. For
a photograph
from the launch event, click here.
Holocaust Remembrance Days
In the State of Israel, we continue to mourn our collective past as well as grapple with our history and continuity in the shadow of the Holocaust. In recent years, intellectuals and journalists have written extensively about the need for national introspections, delving into the past and “looking into the mirror” in an effort to better understand their historical narratives.
Over the past few years, numerous countries have legislated the 27th of January (marking the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp), the 27th of the Hebrew Month of Nissan or another significant historical date pertaining to the Holocaust in their respective country as a national Holocaust Remembrance Day.
The International School for Holocaust Studies is fully committed to fostering Holocaust education around the world. In February 2005, Yad Vashem published
Our Memory of the Past and for the Future. This publication is based on the proceedings of an international forum organized in conjunction with the Council of Europe that took place at Yad Vashem in September 2003. During this forum, participants representing ten countries exchanged ideas on their respective historical narratives and explored questions relating to various techniques and tools to foster education and remembrance of the Holocaust throughout Europe. This volume, which includes classroom lessons and educational guidelines, has been written within the framework of the Council of Europe’s project “Teaching Remembrance: Education for the Prevention of Crimes against Humanity.”
Interactive Map on Holocaust Remembrance throughout Europe
Guidelines for Holocaust Commemoration
These draft guidelines on preparing Holocaust Memorial Day have been developed by Yad Vashem
and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights in an effort to
help support educators who are interested in developing programs, ceremonies and
lesson plans connected with Holocaust Remembrance Days in their respective
countries. This provisional version of the guidelines, including various
examples and educational strategies, is currently in draft form.
For Guidelines in:
For more information, please contact:
Richelle Budd Caplan
The International School for Holocaust Studies
Yad Vashem
P.O. Box 3477
Jerusalem 91034 ISRAEL
Tel: 972-2-644-3644
Fax: 972-2-644-3623
Email:
richelle.buddcaplan@yadvashem.org.il
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