Seminar at the International School for Holocaust Studies for Educators from Austria
05.07.2014-18.07.2014 Class ???, ISHS
Saturday, 05 July Arrival in Israel/Journey to Jerusalem
14:55 Arriving at Ben Gurion Airport (Flight Number OS857) Shuttle to Jerusalem
Guided Tour in Jerusalem, Old City Tourguide: Shlomit Gross
19:00 Check-in at Hotel Rimonim
Sunday, 06 July Remembering The Holocaust In Israel And Yad Vashem
08:30-10:00 Welcome and Introduction - Opening of the Seminar and First Orientation
Deborah Hartmann, European Department, ISHS, Yad Vashem 10:00-10:25 Break
10:25-10:30 Group Photo
10:30-12:00 Lecture: The Educational Concept of the International School for Holocaust Studies (ISHS) I
Dr. Noa Mkayton, European Department, ISHS, Yad Vashem 12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
13:00-15:00 Lecture and Guided Tour of the Site I: Persisting Memories: How Israel commemorates the Holocaust - Remembrance in Yad Vashem and the Israeli Society and the Holocaust
Deborah Hartmann, European Department, ISHS, Yad Vashem 15:00-15:30 Break
15:30-17:00 Lecture: Jewish German Culture in the Modern Era before the Holocaust Prof. Jacob Hessing, Hebrew University
Monday, 07 July The Meaning Of Pre-War Jewish History and Jewish Life At The Beginning of Persecution For Teaching The Holocaust
09:00-10:30 Guided Tour of the Site II: Persisting Memories: How Israel
commemorates the Holocaust - Remembrance in Yad Vashem and the Israeli Society and the Holocaust
Deborah Hartmann, European Department, ISHS, Yad Vashem 10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Self Reflection: "The Holocaust and Me" I 12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
13:00-14:30 Lecture: European Antisemitism from 1870 to 1920 and Jewish Responses
Dr. Simcha Epstein, Hebrew University 14:30-15:00 Break
15:00-16:30 Lecture: Persecution of the Jews in Nazi Germany and Austria, 1933-39 and Jewish Responses
Dr. Simcha Epstein, Hebrew University Evt. Opening Ceremony International Conference
Tuesday, 08 July Teaching History Through Personal Stories As Basic Methodological Approach
09:00-09:30 Short Introduction of the Concept of the Historical Museum 09:45-12:00 Guided Tour, The New Historical Museum
A Historical and Conceptual Guided Visit of the Museum Deborah Hartmann, European Department, ISHS, Yad Vashem 12:00-13:00 Reflections on the Historical Museum
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:15 Self Reflection: "The Holocaust and Me" II 15:15-15:30 Break
15:30-16:30 Lecture: The Educational Concept of the International School for Holocaust Studies (ISHS) II
The ISHS Concept for Age Appropriate Teaching of the Holocaust Dr. Noa Mkayton, European Department, ISHS, Yad Vashem
16:30-18:00 Workshops in small groups with pedagogical materials of Yad Vashem (Tommy, Im Versteck, Marta)
19:00-21:00 Israel Museum
Wednesday, 09 July The Holocaust as a Result of Human Decisions - Teaching The Holocaust From Different Angles - A Multiperspective
Didactical Approach
08:30-09:30 Exchange among the participants about pedagogical materials of Yad Vashem, Jigsaw-Method
Deborah Hartmann, European Department, ISHS, Yad Vashem
09:30-10:00 Break
10:00-11:00 Lecture: The Educational Concept of the International School for Holocaust Studies (ISHS) III
The Meaning of Empathy for studying the Holocaust
Dr. Noa Mkayton, European Department, ISHS, Yad Vashem 11:00-13:00 Workshops:
- The Gray Zones between Perpetrators and Bystanders. The Story of a Deportation of German Jews to Riga
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- Workshop: Righteous Among the Nations. A Workshop on Four Different Case Studies of Rescuing Jews during the Holocaust N.N
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-17:00 Workshop: Teaching the Holocaust in the 21st Century. A
Multi-Disciplinary Workshop with Different Biographical Narratives Deborah Hartmann, European Department, ISHS, Yad Vashem 19.00 Evening with “Israeli Austrians”
Thursday, 10 July Teaching About The Final Solution
08:30-09:30 Reflection on the evening with “Israeli Austrians”
09:30-10:00 Break
10:00-11:30 Lecture: Holocaust and other Genocides – Lecture
Professor Yehuda Bauer, Academic Advisor to Yad Vashem 11:30-12:30 Lunch Break
12:30-14:00 Lecture: Jewish Reactions towards Antisemitism and Persecution Dr. Rafi Vago, Tel Aviv University
14:00-15:30 Workshop: "The Warsaw Ghetto" - A Multi Disciplinary Workshop, Using Authentic Photo Material and Eye-witnesses' Accounts
Orit Margaliot, European Department, ISHS, Yad Vashem 15:30-16:00 Break
16:00-17:30 Lecture: “Operation Barbarossa”. A turning point in WW II: The beginning of “The Final Solution”
Dr. Daniel Uziel, Yad Vashem Archives Evt. Vortrag Politische Situation???
Friday, 11 July North-Israel
Trip to the North Tour Guide:
Saturday, 12 July North-Israel
Trip to the North Tour Guide:
Sunday, 13 July “Ghetto Fighters” Kibbutz
08:00 Departure for Lochame
09:30 Seminar at the “Ghetto Fighters”, Center for Humanistic Studies Every seminar day in Ghetto Fighters Kibbutz starts at 08:30 Every seminar day in Ghetto Fighters Kibbutz finishes at 17:30
Monday, 14 July “Ghetto Fighters” Kibbutz Visit the “Ghetto Fighters” Kibbutz
Tuesday, 15 July “Ghetto Fighters” Kibbutz
Visit the “Ghetto Fighters” Kibbutz
Wednesday, 16 July Tel Aviv
08:00 Off to Tel Aviv Program in Tel Aviv:
11:00-13:00 Bauhaus-Tour
13:00-15:00 Gideon Eckhaus: Club for former Austrians 19:00 Off to Jerusalem
20:00 Check in at the Rimonim Hotel
Thursday, 17 July Witnesses In The Classroom - The Impact On The Holocaust On The Second And Third Generation
08:30-09:15 Lecture and Workshop: The Impact of the Holocaust on us Deborah Hartmann, European Department, ISHS, Yad Vashem
09:15-10:45 Movie: Kinderblock 66, 87 min 10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Meeting with Survivor Naftali Fürst 12:00-13:00 Reflections
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:00 “Why didn’t you come before the war?”
a play performed by Fabiana Meyochas about the Impact on the Holocaust on the Second and Third Generation
15:00-15:30 Break
15:30-16:30 Discussion with the Cartoonist and Lecturer Michel Kichka about his graphic novel "Second Generation - Things I never told to my father"
16:30-17:00 Break
17:00-18:00 Workshop: The Holocaust and Us: Israeli Students´ Perception of the Holocaust
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20:30 Farewell Dinner
Friday, 18 July Facing the 21st Century-Challenges
09:00-10:30 Hunting down Nazi War Criminals.
Dr. Efraim Zuroff, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Jerusalem 10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Self Reflection: "The Holocaust and Me" III Conclusion of the Seminar
Deborah Hartmann, European Department, ISHS, Yad Vashem
12:00 Lunch boxes
12:15 Departure for the Ben Gurion Airport 16:05 Departure for Vienna
