2024-2025 Educator Workshop Series
A separate registration is required for each of the workshops
Building Ties with HMMSA to Our History: Virtual Classroom Resources
September 25th 6:00-8:00PM via Zoom
Texas Holocaust Remembrance Week: Cross Curricular Connections with the Museum
Decemeber 18th 6:00-8:00PM
Location available upon registration.
Integrating HMMSA Resources for the Year Ahead
March 5th 6:00-8:00PM
The HMMSA offers a variety of workshops during the year and is certified by the Texas Education Agency to issue CPE’s to teachers attending any of our educational events. Holocaust educators are welcome to contact the museum for help in developing Holocaust related instructional units and/or using our educational resources to support the teaching of the Holocaust.
To receive information about upcoming programs and workshops, please call us at 210.302.6807, or send us an e-mail.
Professional Learning Opportunity
Earn CPE credits with the HMMSA Online Holocaust Educator Training. This self-paced learning program includes four modules that focus on different introductory topics for teaching the Holocaust in your classroom. Register below for access to the online learning system.
Contact hmmsainfo@jfsatx.org for more information our professional learning programs
Learning Resources
K-5 Curriculum Guide with lessons and resources for the classroom.
Vocabulary List for use in the classroom.
Book list for K-5 education centered around themes such as empathy, kindness love of other, the dangers of apathy and hatred and some age appropriate Holocaust related books.
The Virtual Tour Teacher Guide is to assist teachers in introducing the Holocaust and should be viewed prior to introducing the virtual tour to students.
Virtual Tour Teacher Guide
The Middle School and High School worksheets for use while viewing the virtual tour. You can find them below:
Virtual Tour – HS Worksheet Virtual Tour – MS Worksheet
The Survivor Testimony Worksheet for use while viewing the survivor testimony video.
Survivor Testimony Worksheet
Survivor Testimony
Genocides after the Holocaust is a PowerPoint presentation for educators to learn about the Genocide Convention as well as genocides that have taken place since the Holocaust.
The American Response to the Holocaust Lesson Guide is a companion resource to the exhibit available online and at the Museum.
Art and the Holocaust Lesson Guide explores how many detainees used art as a medium to help them cope with their imprisonment and to show the world what went on in these camps through their experiences.
Analyzing Historical Photographs - Kristallnacht explores photographs from November 8-9, 1938 (Kristallnacht) to better understand the series of events that led to the pogrom against German Jews and the historical impact of the event.
Upstander Lesson Guide explores historical Upstanders and asks students to think about the role of rescue and resistance during the Holocaust.
Recorded Webinars
To better serve our local educators and students doing distance learning we are creating a number of live webinar events. After the events we will post the recordings here for you.
Presentation by Lois Roman of the Memorial Scrolls Trust from 7/14/2020
HMMSA docent Dr. Steve Rosenblatt speaks about the story of his mother's escape from the Holocaust from 8/20/2020.
HMMSA docent Liz Reichman discusses the stories of women in the Holocaust. Part one of two, premiered 8/28/2020.
HMMSA docent Liz Reichman discusses four case studies of women’s experiences during the Holocaust. Part two of two, premiered 9/3/2020.
Educator Trunks
Trunks from the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio are available free of charge thanks to the contributions from the Alex and Sally Halff Foundation, the Charity Ball Association and the Nathalie and Gladys Dalkowitz Charitable Trust. Trunks may be taken out for a period of 4 weeks. The borrower is responsible for picking up and dropping off the trunks to the Museum.
HMMSA Traveling Exhibits
Each exhibit may be taken out for a period of up to 4 weeks for display in your school, library or classroom. The borrower is responsible for picking up and returning the exhibit to the Museum. These traveling exhibits are available free of charge thanks to contributions from the Nathalie and Gladys Dalkowitz Charitable Trust and the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission.
Schedule A Field Trip or Off-Campus Visit
The Holocaust Memorial Museum visits can accommodate up to 200 students at one time. Tours last approximately 2-3 hours depending on group size, and must be confirmed at least two weeks prior to your visit. For more information and to complete a field trip inquiry form, please click the button below.
Our Voices, Our Lives: Twenty Holocaust Survivors Remember
Our Voices, Our Lives: Twenty Holocaust Survivors Remember is a teacher’s resource book for English, Language Arts, and Social Studies classrooms that uses the video testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Institute to make stories from Holocaust survivors come alive to students in the classroom.