HOLOCAUST STUDIES from Vanderbilt Virtual School. ALL of these videoconferences are offered at both 9:00 AM and 10:00 AM (central time).
COST is $75, and the length of the videoconference is 45 minutes long. Format is 25-30 minutes for the presentation and 15-20 minutes for question and answer session with the students.
REGISTER online: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/virtualschool/registration.htm
We encourage you to use the lesson plans on the website that are available for each videoconference to help prepare students for these videoconferences.
HOLOCAUST STUDIES: WITNESSES and VOICES of the HOLOCAUST (students in grades 5-12)
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| Thursday, March 10 | “Prelude to the Holocaust: Events Leading Up to the Holocaust and the Early Days of Persecution” | Paul Fleming - co-author of “The Holocaust and Other Genocides” |
| Thursday, March 17 | “Kindertransport: Rescue of Jewish Children” | Eric Rosenfeld – Holocaust Refugee |
| Thursday, March 31 | “Liberator: Dachau Concentration Camp” | Jimmy Gentry - American infantryman at age 19 fought in the Battle of the Bulge and helped liberate Dachau Concentration Camp. |
| Thursday, April 7 | “Hidden Jewish Child during Holocaust” | Frances Cutler – from age 3 lived in Catholic children’s home and then on a Catholic family’s farm to escape capture |
| Thursday, April 14 | “Haven Project Refugee” | Eva Rosenfeld - refuge from occupied Italy as one of 982 “guests” of President Franklin Roosevelt; these were the only Jewish refugees allowed to enter the United States during wartime. |
| Thursday, April 21 | “Life and Death in a Siberian Forced Labor Camp” | Esther Loeb - Survivor of a Soviet Union Siberian Forced Labor Camp |
| Thursday, April 28 | “Survivor of Dachau Concentration Camp” | Art Pais – Survivor; spent three years in Kovno Ghetto and one year in Dachau Concentration Camp; was liberated at age 18 on April 29, 1945 by U.S. troops. |
