Yad Vashem's International School for Holocaust Studies offers various educational tours and activities suited for a wide range of audiences from all different countries and languages. Visits are tailor made in order to match the specific educational goals of each group and encourage accessibility and connection. Groups can choose between a wide range of options, including tours, workshops, discussions, testimony, and lectures on a collection of topics. All tours and seminars are led by our professionally trained educational tour guides. Below are sample modules:
Leadership Seminars: Seminars designed for youth and young leaders. The seminars encourage participants to analyze, question and explore the boundaries and definition of leadership, during the Shoah. The Seminar day includes a thematic tour of the Historical Holocaust Museum, a workshop on leadership dilemma and a tour of the Yad Vashem Campus
The Academic Track: Designed for those with advanced knowledge; the participants will be engaged in a deeper discussion. The day includes a thematic tour of Yad Vashem's History Museum focusing on complex dilemmas and historical trends, the workshop "How was it humanely possible", questioning perpetrator's choices and motives, and a comparative workshop on Shoah and Genocide.
The "First Timers" Visit, consisting of a tour of Yad Vashem's museum, a tour of Yad Vashem's memorials and monuments, and a first hand encounter with a Holocaust Survivor.
The "Repeaters" visit to Yad Vashem: Recommended for those who have already visited Yad Vashem and are looking for alternative options. The options for this track include a visit to the Valley of the Communities, where participants uncover the rich culture and life of Europe's destroyed Jewish communities, a tour of the Art Museum, and a visit to the Multimedia Learning Center.
Preparation and Summary for Poland Trips: This seminar is suitable for groups prior to their journeys to Poland, and also includes a processing seminar, upon their return. The preparation includes the interactive workshop, "We are the Polish Jews", learning about Polish Jewry's plurality in the Interwar Period, the workshop, "These are my last words", which uses last letters composed by Holocaust victims to discuss our modern responsibility to Holocaust education. The visit will also include a coordinated tour of the Historical Museum.
The Processing visit includes, a tour of Yad Vashem's campus; on commemoration and the modern narrative of remembrance, as well as the workshop Post Holocaust Cards, which created dialogue on the meaning and relevant of shared and personal Holocaust memory today.
Additional Options and Tours: Tours for Participants with Special Needs, Customized long term programming and seminars, Age appropriate tours for younger students, Youth exchange seminars which encourage open dialogue and discussion between the different nations , A religious tour geared for Yeshiva and Seminary students, Portable workshops that can be sent all over the country
To begin planning your day at Yad Vashem or for questions, please contact us at education.overseas@yadvashem.org.il or 02-644-3270
