Events Archive

Mr. Deng Chol, Executive Director of the Lost Boys’ and Lost Girls’ National Nonprofit Organization, spoke at California State University, Chico, on Human Rights Abuses and Mass Murder by the Khartoum Government in the South and in Darfur.

Mr. Chol's presentation was free and open to the public.

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This workshop was for U.S. public secondary school teachers able to implement Holocaust studies in their classrooms. This internationally acclaimed program, now in its 21st year, included time in both Poland and Israel.

In Poland, you saw Warsaw, Czestochowa, and Krakow, with visits to Jewish historic sites, museums, former ghettos and death camps, learning at a number of institutions in or near these communities. In Israel, we studied with prominent scholars and hear first-hand testimony from survivors at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, and at the Ghetto Fighters Study Center at Kibbutz Lohamei Hageta'ot.

The program was subsidized so teachers paid only $2,000, which included round-trip travel, trips to historic sites, hotels, two to a room, two meals daily.
Applications were due April 15th.

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Museum educators and scholars shared rationales, strategies, and approaches for presenting this complex topic to students, in sessions designed specifically for middle- and high-school teachers. Participants had extensive time to view the Museum’s exhibitions. Seminar sessions, led by Museum Teacher Fellows, emphasized planning and implementing units of study for teaching. Participants received a set of educational materials and a voucher worth $100 to purchase Holocaust–related resources in the Museum Shop.

Applications with recommendation letters were due April 14, 2006.

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Online Forum - Lessons from the Past: The Armenian Genocide, Humanitarian Intervention and Human Rights

December 1^st - 3^rd, 2004

Facing History and Ourselves hosted a global online conversation for educators, scholars, and university and graduate students focusing on the difficult choices individuals, groups, and nations have confronted - and continue to struggle with - in the face of genocide.

The forum built upon the issues explored in Facing History and Ourselves' newest resource book, Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians, as well as examined the work of contemporary human rights activists and scholars who challenge indifference and believe that prevention of genocide is possible.

Facing History and Ourselves staff facilitated this three-day online forum with the participation of leading human rights and Armenian Genocide scholars, including Chair of Modern Armenian History at the University of California, Los Angeles, Richard Hovannisian. Smith College Professor and human rights activist Eric Reeves, a frequent writer and commentator on the genocide in Sudan joined us along with Helen Fein, the executive director of the Institute for the Study of Genocide and the International Association of Genocide Scholars. The online forum was free of charge.

This 2-day workshop brought 20 middle and high school teachers from small to moderate sized cities outside major metropolitan centers and rural public schools in the western United States to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on December 6-7, 2004 .

Participants used the Museum's exhibitions as their primary classroom as learned the history of this tragic event. Museum staff and scholars explored the content, methodologies, and rationales for teaching this complex history.

Attendees received a generous stipend and vouchers for use in the Museum Shop.