Professional Development for Educators

March 2021

March 02

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Life and Resistance in the Camp

As the nature of the camp changed so too did the type of prisoners and the harshness of life within the camp. This session will look at the experience of those who lived and died in the Auschwitz complex.

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March 09

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Liberation and Aftermath

This session will look at the days leading up to liberation, the death marches out of it and who was left behind. It will unpack these now famous scenes of liberation and look at how this camp became so central to Holocaust memory.

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March 16

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm

Smoke Over Birkenau

In this session we will discussion the memoir by Holocaust survivor Liana Millu and relate her experience to what we have learned in the course so far.

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March 24

6:30 pm

The Last of the Unjust Zoom Discussion

More than twenty-five years after Shoah, this Claude Lanzmann film reveals a little-known yet fundamental aspect of the Holocaust, and sheds light on the origins of the “Final Solution” like never before.

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April 2021

April 11

1:30 pm - 2:30 pm

Yom HaShoah

April 15

5:30 pm

Common Book – Spring 2021

Zoom

Announcing MCHE’s Spring 2021 common book, the community is encouraged to read Smoke Over Birkenau by Liana Millu. Liana Millu was a Jewish Italian Partisan who was arrested in 1944 and sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Of the ...

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