By , Special to JTNews
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has chosen Seattle as a site for a teachers’ in-service seminar, “Teaching About the Holocaust,” in cooperation with the Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center.
Dr. Michael Berenbaum, scholar, theologian and author, will kick off the conference with a presentation open to the public at Temple De Hirsch Sinai in Seattle on Wednesday, April 24, at 7 p.m.
The conference will take place on April 25 and 26, 2002 and will be hosted on the Seattle University campus. About 200 Seattle-area teachers-in-training and teachers in the classroom as well as educators from local universities and colleges will attend the seminar featuring topics in Holocaust education including: historical perspectives, themes and topics, using literature and using technology for teaching.
As a part of this education outreach program, the museum is sponsoring the community lecture by Dr. Michael Berenbaum. His topic on the 24th will be “The Holocaust in Jewish Memory: The Holocaust in Universal Memory.” Dr. Berenbaum is an internationally known Holocaust scholar, author and theologian. From 1988 to 1993 he served as project director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, overseeing its creation, and later was president and chief executive officer of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation.
In addition to his academic career, Berenbaum is the author and editor of 12 books, scores of scholarly articles, and hundreds of journalistic pieces. His book The World Must Know has been praised “a majestic and profoundly moving history of the Holocaust…It is must reading for anyone who would like to be human in the post-Holocaust world.”
For more information, contact WSHERC, at 206-441-5747 or [email protected].