The Day of Learning, established in 2003, offers students and educators an exceptional interactive opportunity to learn about the Holocaust and the patterns of genocide, to enhance their understanding of critical events in modern history, and to bring forth their moral courage and social responsibility in the future.
 
Each year, more than 550 students and teachers throughout California participate in the Day of Learning. 
 
When: Sun., Mar. 18, 2012 
 
Where: Mercy High School, 3250 19th Avenue, San Francisco
 
See list of workshop facilitators for the 2012 program.
 
WORKSHOPS
 
A Matter of Honor: The Story of Albanian, Bosnian, and Tunisian Muslims Rescuing Jews
 
Creating the Enemy: Propaganda in the Nazi Era
 
Decision Making in Times of Injustice
 
Eyewitness: The Imagery That Shapes Our Understanding of the Holocaust
 
Holocaust Education in the Post-Survivor Era, a Workshop for Educators
 
Japanese-American Internment and the Man Who Fought Back: The Fred Korematsu Story
 
Jewish Identity and Christian Rescue
 
Musical, Artistic, and Literary Resistance in Terezín
 
Never Again Is Happening Now! The Crisis in Sudan
 
Perpetrators and the Banality of Evil: Rudolf Höss, Commandant of Auschwitz
 
Seeing Is Believing: Anti-Semitism in Pop Culture
 
The Armenian Genocide: Through the Lens of Survivor Testimonies
 
The Jewish Partisans: Teenage Armed Resistance During the Holocaust
 
The Patterns of Genocide: Rwanda, Cambodia, and Nazi Germany
 
See full descriptions of workshops for the 2012 program. 
 
The Day of Learning is generously supported by the Preisler Shorenstein Endowment Fund of JFCS, individual donations, and fees. 
 
The JFCS Holocaust Center’s 2012 Day of Learning is co-presented by the Alameda Office of Education, Anti-Defamation League, Bishop O’Dowd High School, Facing History and Ourselves, Genocide Education Project, Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation, Lehrhaus Judaica, Mercy High School's Helen and Joe Farkas Center for the Study of the Holocaust, Moreau Catholic High School, San Francisco Bay Area Darfur Coalition, and San Francisco State University.

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