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Teaching Spiritual and Cultural Resistance in the Holocaust through Film
All English and Social Studies Teachers in Middle and High School in NC are eligible to attend the NC Council on the Holocaust’s workshop Teaching Spiritual and Cultural Resistance in the Holocaust through Film is more limited in space than our conferences, so signing up early is important. Substitutes will be paid for all NC public school teachers. (Note: Teachers can only get one substitute paid for in a school year for our programs. You may attend multiple programs, but we can only pay for one substitute.) This workshop will be held in Wilmington, NC.
Teachers will learn about spiritual and cultural resistance in the Holocaust through two case studies, each with a classroom-length documentary film and classroom-ready lessons. Come and learn about the extraordinary resistance in Terezin through the Defiant Requiem Foundation and the courage of women in Latvia through the Women of the Shoah “She Wouldn’t Take Off Her Boots” memorial in Greensboro, NC.
Below, you will see the agenda for this workshop, which will also have all of the presentations and files embedded for your use by the day of the workshop.
Contact Information for the Conference Facilitators:
Lauren Piner, Region 1 Director: pinerl@pitt.k12.nc.us
Lee Holder, Region 2 Director: historyhawk308@gmail.com
Laurie Schaefer, Region 5 Director: schaefer.laurie2006@gmail.com
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8:00-8:20: Introductions/Housekeeping/Intro to Terezin
Wifi Information: Wifi Network Name: TOI922GUEST Wifi Password: Reibman_Center |
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8:20-9:05: Viewing and Discussion of Defiant Requiem with Visual Journals |
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9:05-9:15: Break |
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9:15-10:15: A Conversation with Murray Sidlin -Murry Sidlin, a conductor with a unique gift for engaging audiences, continues a diverse and distinctive musical career. He is the president and creative director of The Defiant Requiem Foundation, an organization that sponsors live concert performances of Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín and Hours of Freedom: The Story of the Terezín Composer; as well as other projects including the documentary film, Defiant Requiem; a new docudrama called Mass Appeal, 1943, which was premiered in June 2017; and The Rafael Schächter Institute for Arts and Humanities at Terezín. In addition, he lectures extensively on the arts and humanities as practiced by the prisoners in the Theresienstadt (Terezín) Concentration Camp. |
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10:15-10:25: Break |
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10:25-12:00: Teaching about Defiant Requiem and Terezin |
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12:00-12:45: Lunch provided for teachers by Howard Stein |
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12:45-1:15: Viewing and Discussion of She Wouldn’t Take Off Her Boots with Visual Journals |
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1:15-2:15: Teaching about She Wouldn’t Take Off Her Boots |
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2:15-3:00: A Conversation with the Artist Victoria Milstein and Holocaust Survivor Shelly Weiner |
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3:00-3:15: Evaluations and Break |
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3:15-4:00: A Story of Escape |
