The Holocaust

The Holocaust: Remembrance, Respect, and Resilience

By Ellen Resnek / Wednesday, May 3, 2023 / Comments Off on The Holocaust: Remembrance, Respect, and Resilience

The Holocaust:  Remembrance, Respect, and Resilience Authors:Michael Polgar and Suki John: https://psu.pb.unizin.org/holocaust3rs/ Book Description:International and multidisciplinary authors share a free online textbook for Holocaust educators and students. Chapters consider the […]

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Poland Personally 2024: A Study Seminar to Poland

By Ellen Resnek / Tuesday, May 2, 2023 / Comments Off on Poland Personally 2024: A Study Seminar to Poland
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Israel EDU Leadership Study Seminar 2024

By Ellen Resnek / Tuesday, May 2, 2023 / Comments Off on Israel EDU Leadership Study Seminar 2024
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Teaching Defiant Requiem

By Ellen Resnek / Friday, April 28, 2023 / Comments Off on Teaching Defiant Requiem

Teach the story of Jewish prisoners of the Nazis who used music to defy their oppressors, find courage and sustain hope.   How and why did a group of Jews in Terezín Ghetto learn to sing Giuseppe […]

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Post Film Discussion Traces: Portraits of Resistance, Survival and Resolve

By Ellen Resnek / Thursday, April 27, 2023 / Comments Off on Post Film Discussion Traces: Portraits of Resistance, Survival and Resolve

Post Film Discussion Traces Trilogy: Portraits of Resistance, Survival and Resolve with Executive producer Dr. Judith S. Goldstein and Writer Samuel George Moderated by Avi Ben Hur Encouraging resistance and […]

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Post Film Discussion Game Changers with Director Noam Sobovitz and Professor Zimeremann

By Ellen Resnek / Wednesday, April 26, 2023 / Comments Off on Post Film Discussion Game Changers with Director Noam Sobovitz and Professor Zimeremann

Post Film Discussion Game Changers Synopsis How did a football match between enemies become a turning point in history? Twenty-five years after the Holocaust, against insurmountable emotional and political barriers […]

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Perpetrators of the Holocaust: A Reassessment

By Ellen Resnek / Sunday, April 23, 2023 / Comments Off on Perpetrators of the Holocaust: A Reassessment

Perpetrators of the Holocaust: A Reassessment Since the end of WWII, many explanations have been offered as to why the Nazis and their collaborators perpetrated the Holocaust.  These range from […]

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The Lodz Ghetto: An in-depth study

By Ellen Resnek / Sunday, April 23, 2023 / Comments Off on The Lodz Ghetto: An in-depth study

The Lodz Ghetto: An in-depth study What was life like for those trapped inside the Lodz ghetto? When the Germans sealed off the ghetto on May 1, 1940, 164,000 Jews […]

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Etty adapted and performed by Susan Stein at the Carnegie Stage

By Ellen Resnek / Friday, April 14, 2023 / Comments Off on Etty adapted and performed by Susan Stein at the Carnegie Stage

Etty Hillesum’s life ended at Auschwitz when she was only 29 years old. In the play, Etty, drawn entirely from Hillesum’s diaries and letters of 1941 to 1943, we meet a […]

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Etty adapted and performed by Susan Stein at the Carnegie Stage

By Ellen Resnek / Friday, April 14, 2023 / Comments Off on Etty adapted and performed by Susan Stein at the Carnegie Stage

Etty Hillesum’s life ended at Auschwitz when she was only 29 years old. In the play, Etty, drawn entirely from Hillesum’s diaries and letters of 1941 to 1943, we meet a […]

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