The application process for the 11th International Conference for Educators at Yad Vashem has begun.
We remain optimistic that conditions will allow us to hold the conference. We continue to plan and look forward to greeting you in Jerusalem in July.
Subsidy request forms will be accepted until February 28, 2024.
For further questions, please feel free to contact us at International.conference@yadvashem.org.il
The 11th International Conference on Holocaust Education July 1 – 4
Monday – July 1
15:30-17:30 Optional Guided Tours:
- Holocaust History Museum – Liz Elsby & Sarah Levy
- Art Museum, Campus, Book of Names
- David & Fela Shapell Family Collections Center (Artifacts Collection)
Opening
17:30 Enrollment/registration
18:00-18:45 Reception
19:00 Opening Ceremony
MC Dr. Noa Mkayton, Director, Overseas Education and Training Department, International Institute for Holocaust Education, Yad Vashem
Opening Remarks
- Dani Dayan, Chairman of Yad Vashem
Opening Lecture: Education and the Holocaust
- Dr. Gilad Olshtein, Director, International Institute for Holocaust Education, Yad Vashem
Introduction: Holocaust Education in Today's World
Dr. Birte Hewera, Sheryl Ochayon, Yad Vashem
20:15-21:00 Musical Performance- The Shalva Band
The Shalva Band is comprised of eight talented musicians and vocalists with disabilities who began their journey at the Shalva (Israel Association for the Care and Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities) National Center in Jerusalem.
Tuesday – July 2
The Jewish Kehilah (Community) in a World of Crisis
MC Sheryl Ochayon
09:10-09:15 Tziona Koenig-Yair, Associate Executive Vice President, Claims Conference, Israel
09:15-09:45 Strength and Vulnerability of the Community in the Diaspora
Rabbi Dr Benny Lau, Scholar, author, founder of 929 Initiative
09:50-11:00 The Role of the Kehilah Before and During the Holocaust
Prof. Guy Miron, Open University of Israel
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Pedagogical Workshops
- The Walls Tell Stories: Jewish Cultural Life in the Vilna Ghetto
Sarah Levy, Yad Vashem
Moderator: Yael Eaglstein
- "Talking Yiddish to Chickens" – A Student Project about Chicken Farms Established in New Jersey by Holocaust Survivors
Prof. Michael Hayse & Irvin Moreno-Rodriguez, Stockton University, USA
Moderator: Sheryl Ochayon
- Cycles of Remembrance: Tracing the Lost Culture and Social Fabric of Pre-War Dutch Jewish Communities through Artifacts
Daniel Rozenga, Yad Vashem
Moderator: Miriam Mouryc
- Oneg Shabbat: Who Will Write Our History? The Underground Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto
Shlomit Dunkelblum-Steiner, Yad Vashem
Moderator: Deborah Braff Mayer
- The German Jewish Community’s Response to the Rise of Nazism 1933-1939
Rabbi Moshe Cohn, Yad Vashem
Moderator: Dr. Gad Marcus
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Pedagogical Workshops
- From Ghetto Boy to Rocket Man. The Story of Avraham Peter, a Teenage Survivor of the Lodz Ghetto Who Helped Bring Apollo 13 Safely Home
Lori Gerson,Yad Vashem
Moderator: Rabbi Moshe Cohn
- Bialystok – A Glimpse into a Vibrant Pre-war Jewish Community
Julian Tsapir, Yad Vashem
Moderator: Dr. Noa Mkayton
- Windows to a Lost World: Pedagogical Perspectives on Jewish Pre-war Life
Shani Lourie-Farhi, Yad Vashem
Moderator: Deborah Braff Mayer
- They Say There is a Land: A ready2print Exhibition about Zionism Before and During the Holocaust
Shlomit Dunkelblum-Steiner, Yad Vashem
Moderator: Dr. Gad Marcus
- Exploring Jewish Life Before the War: The Azrieli Foundation’s Re: Collection
Jody Spiegel, Director, Azrieli Foundation’s Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program, Azrieli Foundation, Canada
Moderator: Yoni Berrous
- Teaching about Solidarity and Resilience: Holocaust Education in Primary Schools
Dr. Yael Richler-Friedman, Pedagogical Director, Yad Vashem
Moderator: Ariel Nahmias
15:30-16:00 Break or bus back to hotel
16:00-17:30 Optional Panel: Today's Kehilah: Jewish Communities in Israel and Abroad Post October 7th
Moderator: Yiftach Meiri, Yad Vashem
Panelists:
Kibbutz Nir-Oz: Crisis, Destruction and Continuation
Liat Atsili, Kibbutz Nir-Oz, Teacher at Nofey HaB'sor High-School, Guide at Yad Vashem
Jewish Communities of the Diaspora Post October 7th
Rabbi James Kennard, Israel Representative, Gandel Foundation,
Former Principal, Mt. Scopus Memorial College, Melbourne, Australia
Solidarity and Resilience: The Response of a Community in Israel to the Massacre
Yael Friedson, Siach Yitzchak Synagogue Community, Journalist, Jerusalem
“Wrapping Memory”: Commemoration of the Attacked Israeli Communities
Amit Trainin, Illustrator, Head, Illustration Section, Bezalel Visual Communications Department, Jerusalem
Wednesday – July 3
The Holocaust in a Global Context
MC Sheryl Ochayon
09:00-10:00 Panel: Competing Memories
Chairperson: Jody Spiegel, Azrieli Foundation
Panelists: Prof. Havi Dreifuss, Yad Vashem, Tel Aviv University
Dr. Roni Mikel-Arieli, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Paul Salmons, Curator, Pedagogue, education consultant, Paul Salmons Associates, UK. Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Fellow, USHMM
10:00-10:30 Lecture: Teaching the Holocaust in a Global Context
Dr. Noa Mkayton, Yad Vashem
10:30-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-12:00 Short Presentations followed by Discussions
- “The Only Thing Left Is to See Our Ghetto as Musa Dagh” Memories of the Armenian Genocide During the Holocaust –
Dr. Rocco Giansante, Yad Vashem
Moderator: Eliana Rapp-Badihi
- Remembering the Holocaust in Apartheid South Africa –
Dr. Roni Mikel-Arieli, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Moderator: Marina Goldinstein
- Teaching About the Genocide of the Roma – (Newest guidelines of IHRA about teaching the Roma genocide, and how they correspond to the guidelines YV has developed for teaching the Holocaust) –
Misko Stanisic, Terraforming, Serbia
Moderator: Miriam Mouryc
- Insights from a Global Program of Holocaust and Genocide Education –
Paul Salmons, Curator, pedagogue, education consultant, Paul Salmons Associates, UK.; Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Fellow, USHMM
Moderator: Yiftach Meiri
- BEFEM Research Project: Intergenerational Family Narratives about the Nazi System and the Holocaust in Germany's Multiethnic Society –
Peter-Erwin Jansen, University of Applied Sciences, Koblenz, Germany
Moderator: Dr. Birte Hewera
- ’Fighting for the Whole World’ - Lower Saxony under Nazi Rule” –
Dr. Elke Gryglewski, Lower Saxony Memorials Foundation/Bergen-Belsen Memorial, Niedersachsen, Germany
Moderator: Dr. Gad Marcus
12:00-13:00 Lunch
Holocaust Education and New Media
13:00-14:00 Short Presentations:
Moderator: Yoni Berrous
- Media, Brain and Behavior
Prof. Radek Ptáček, Charles University, Czech Republic
- Holocaust Memory in the Digital Age: Case Study of a Virtual Tour in Auschwitz-Birkenau
Dr. Noam Tirosh, Ben Gurion University
- Sharing Our Story on All Platforms: Digital Content and Social Media at the National Library of Israel
Nati Gabbay, Head of Digital Content, The National Library of Israel
- Listening to the Voices of Those Who Were There: Educational Perspectives
Shani Lourie-Farhi, Yad Vashem
14:15-15:15 Breakout Sessions: The Use of AI and Social Media in Holocaust Education
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Yoni Berrous
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Rabbi Moshe Cohn
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Yael Eaglstein
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Daniel Rozenga
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Mirjam Limbrunner
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Sarah Levy
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Katarzyna Czerwonogora
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Yechiel Chilewski
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15:15-15:30 Break
15:30-16:30 Conclusion: How Do We Proceed from Here? Criteria for the Use of AI and Social Media in Holocaust Education
Dr. Yael Richler-Friedman, Pedological Director, Yad Vashem
Thursday – July 4
When Antisemitism Challenges Holocaust Education
MC Sheryl Ochayon
09:00-09:30 Revealing the Masks of Hatred: Facing Antisemitism Today
Dani Dayan, Chairman of Yad Vashem
09:30-10:45 Educators' and Students' Perspectives on Antisemitism Post October 7th
Chairperson: Mark Weitzman, COO, World Jewish Restitution Organization
- Mitchell Kalin, Teacher, Leavitt Middle School, Nevada, USA
- Rebecca Stucker, Malmo, Sweden
- Prof. Eileen Lyon, The State University of New York at Fredonia, USA
- Orli Barnett, Cape Town Holocaust & Genocide Centre, South Africa
Response: Mark Weitzman
10:45-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:45 Pedagogical Tools for Teaching about Current Antisemitism: Breakout Sessions
- Contemporary Neo-Nazism
Prof. Christer Mattsson, Director, Segerstedt Institute, The University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Moderator: Yiftach Meiri
- Teaching about Current Antisemitism
Lori Gerson, Yad Vashem
Moderator: Yael Eaglstein
- Awareness to Action
Kira Simon, ADL, USA
Moderator: Sarah Levy
- A Strategy for Prevention of Extremism
Asmen Ilhan, MIND Prevention, Germany
Moderator: Dr. Birte Hewera
12:45-13:45 Lunch
Concluding Ceremony in Memory of Izzy and Babs Asper
Opening Remarks:
Shai Abramson, Israel Representative, The Asper Foundation, Israel
13:45-14:45 Lecture: Today's Antisemitism and Holocaust Education in a Post-October 7th Reality
Dr. Michal Cotler-Wunsh, LL.B, LL.M
14:45-15:15 Dr. Sharon Kangisser Cohen in conversation with Prof. Aharon Barak, Holocaust survivor
15:15-15:45 Musical Performance: Idan Raichel