Summer Virtual Institute for Teachers: Holocaust Testimony and Historical Comparisons
Join for an online professional learning institute for history teachers in grades 6-12, Holocaust Testimony and Historical Comparisons: Race and Citizenship in Nazi Germany and Jim Crow United States.
In this practice-oriented online institute, they will study three Fortunoff Archive testimonies to examine citizenship and the construct of race in a comparative perspective. Learn from Leon Bass, a Black soldier who arrived in Buchenwald with the segregated US Army in April 1945; Martin Schiller, a Jewish survivor and child prisoner in Buchenwald; and John W., a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, who was a teenager when the Nazis implemented the Nuremberg laws.
Study their stories, other primary sources, and historical scholarship to develop strategies for engaging students in historical inquiry and careful comparative analysis. The institute will combine conversations with historians, exploration of testimony-based curricular materials, and work with instructional strategies that engage students in historical thinking.
Institute Schedule:
The institute will meet on three consecutive mornings, Monday, July 11th, through Wednesday, July 13th, from 9AM-12PM EST. In these interactive zoom sessions, participants will meet with scholars, explore curriculum-related pedagogy, and engage in small-group conversations with other teachers.
