PALM BEACH COUNTY

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PALM BEACH COUNTY
July 2003
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THE SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PALM BEACH COUNTY
Department of Multicultural Education
Holocaust Studies
in
collaboration with
Holocaust Education Outreach Center
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• Who were they?
• 20 Educators
• 3 Community Leaders
• 3 Friends Family
• 1 Survivor
• Interfaith
• 19 Women
• 8 Men
• Elementary through College

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The Learning Experience
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Warsaw
Janusz Korszak Memorial in the Jewish Cemetery
Rappaport Ghetto Fighters Memorial
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Over 300,000 Jews were gathered in the
Umschlagplatz from 1942-1943 where most were
deported to Treblinka.
Norman Frajman, Survivor, speaks about his
deportation to Majdanek from the Umschlagplatz.
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Majdanek Concentration Camp
Block 21 where Norman was assigned as a child.
800,000 people were murdered at Majdanek.
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17,000 people are buried here in this mass grave
at Majdanek. All were shot in these pits on
November 3, 1943 called The Harvest Festival by
the Nazis and Bloody Wednesday by the
prisoners.
Jews marching to their death
Mausoleum which contains the ashes and bones of
the victims of this slaughter which were found by
the Russian liberators.
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Crakow
Remaining Wall of the Crakow Ghetto
Schindlers Factory
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Synagogues and the Jewish Quarter in Crakow
The Isaac Synagogue
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The Isaac Synagogue
Celebrating Life and Freedom
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Oswiecem
The Auschwitz Jewish Center
A Very Special Event
A BAR MITVAH
Norman Frajman, Survivor
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A BAR MITZVAH
13 Years Old Warsaw Ghetto
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The Auschwitz Museum
Auschwitz I
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Birkenau
Auschwitz II
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• 1996 1st Holocaust Seminar in Poland (now an
  annual event for teachers in Poland and
  Lithuania)
• 1st Holocaust curriculum is printed
• 1998 Traveling Educational Exhibition The
  History of the Jews in Polish, German and
  English begins.
• Post-graduate Studies- 1 year program in
  Humanities focusing on the Holocaust
• 2003 Polish Website for teachers of the
  Holocaust is started.
• 5,000 Polish teachers are now trained to teach
  the Holocaust.

Holocaust Education in Poland
Dr. Piotr Trojanski Pedagogical University of
Crakow Co-author of the Polish State Holocaust
Curriculum
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Berlin
City-wide Memorials
Topography of Terror
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Ravensbruck Concentration Camp
For Women
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Haus Am Wannsee
Wannsee Conference 1942 The Final Solution
Growing up in Germany I am the son of the
perpetratorsWhen we as boys discovered all the
terrible things that happened, we were all
suspicious that our own parents were involved. I
didnt speak to my father for six years while I
studied the Holocaust Dr. Norbert Kampe,
Director House of the Wannsee Conference
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Berlin Jewish Museum
Architect Daniel Libeskind
Replica of original Jewish History Museum which
is attached to the new structure.
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This was the only synagogue in Berlin that was
not destroyed during Kristallnacht. It stands in
a courtyard which is completely surrounded by
apartment buildings. Today they have an active
congregation.
Pestalozzi Synagogue
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Prague
Lisl Bogart, Survivor
Terezin Concentration Camp
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What have we learned?
What was the impact?
Now what?
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Summer 2004
July 6 July 20

• State-wide Participation
• Recruitment Beginning in October
• Applications Available November 1

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Eileen Shapiro, M.Ed. , Study Tour
Leader Holocaust Studies Program Planner The
School District of Palm Beach County Rose
Gatens, Ph.D., Historian Director, Holocaust
Education Outreach Center Florida Atlantic
University Walter Renn, Ph.D.,
Historian Professor, Department of History Middle
Tennessee State University Rabbi Howard Shapiro,
Clergy Temple Israel, West Palm Beach Michelle
Tooley, Ph.D., Clergy Lily Professor of Religion,
Berea College
[phone] Eshapiro_at_mail.palmbeach.k12.fl.us
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What does it cost?
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How can you help?

• Publicize
• Funding for Teachers
• etc.

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• FUN
• FRIENDSHIPS
• FOOD

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FOREVER !