Contact
Morgan Blum, Director of Education, JFCS Holocaust Center; 415-449-1289; MorganB@jfcs.org
Questions? Email Dol@jfcs.org or call the JFCS Holocaust Center at 415-449-3717.
Cost: Free
Registration is required before Mon., Mar. 12.
Register as an educator.
Register as a student (grades 8 – 12)..
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.
Morgan Blum, Director of Education, JFCS Holocaust Center; 415-449-1289; MorganB@jfcs.org
Questions? Email Dol@jfcs.org or call the JFCS Holocaust Center at 415-449-3717.
Cost: Free
Registration is required before Mon., Mar. 12.
Register as an educator.
Register as a student (grades 8 – 12)..