Evidence Against Intolerance: A Virtual Symposium on Teaching the Holocaust in the Digital Disinformation Era
February 23, 2022
9am-5pm Eastern
- Welcome 9:00am-9:15am
- State of Holocaust Education 9:15am-10:30am
- Hana Bor, Professor, Towson University (Moderator)
- Daniel Heß, Friedrich Rückert Gymnasium, Germany
- Tamar Ketko, Professor, Kibutzim College, Israel
- Lori Weintrob, Professor, Wagner College Holocaust Center
- Jeffrey Parker, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Resistance, rescue, victims, survivors and heroism 10:45am – 11:45 am
- Hana Bor, Professor, Towson University (Moderator)
- Amy McDonald, Author/Educator, Birmingham, AL
- Azrikam Ganot, Teacher/Activist, Israel
- Teaching the Holocaust in This Contemporary Climate (Keynote) 12:00pm-12:45pm
- Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, Professor/Author, Bar-Ilan University
- Information Literacy & Holocaust Education Resource Sharing 1:00pm-2:00pm
- Joyce Garczynski, Librarian, Towson University (Moderator)
- Jewish Museum of Maryland
- Center for Jewish Education
- Forget-Me-Not Exhibition
- Centropa
- Holocaust Denial, Antisemitism, and Hatred in the Modern Era 2:00pm-3:15pm
- Joyce Garczynski, Librarian, Towson University (Moderator)
- Rachel Deblinger, Holocaust Historian/ Digital Humanist, UCLA
- Levi Israel Ufferfilge, Author/Director, Jewish International School, Germany
- Breakout room discussions about declining knowledge about the Holocaust 3:30pm-4:45pm
- Closing Remarks 4:45pm-5:00pm