The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. - USHMM

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We are excited to offer an in-person workshop this year in preparation for Texas Holocaust Remembrance Week. Educators are invited to join us in critically analyzing the survivor testimony of Rose Williams to create a snapshot moment using reading, history, science, math, and art! This workshop brings together all corners of the campus to create a visual storytelling animation of a pivotal moment in Rose's testimony.

Educators who attend will leave with the tools, template, and most important, hands-on experience, in creating animated visual stories to confidently implement in their own classrooms or with the help of other departments on campus. All supplies for the workshop are included but are easy to replicate utilizing materials you can find in or around the classroom.

Lesson Ideas for Holocaust Education Week

Earn 2 Hours CPE Credit

For more information on upcoming workshops and HMMSA Educator Resources contact HMMSA Education Department at education@hmmsa.org

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Want to sample one of our workshops, and learn more about Holocaust pedagogy? Watch one of our previously recorded workshops below!

 

Texas Holocaust Remembrance Week Workshop Series


Choices Matter: Complicity and Action During the Holocaust (Echoes & Reflections)

HMMSA Workshop for K-12 Educators

Examine the consequences of inaction and the courage and difficult choices of those who rescued and resisted during the Holocaust. Educators also learn how to support students to implement an action-oriented project influenced by the lessons of this history.


Scholar-in-Residence Workshop w/Rachael Cerrotti

HMMSA Workshop for K-12 educators

Using photographs, video, audio, interviews, archival documents, contemporary headlines, and personal stories, Rachael brings her grandmother’s story, entwined with her own journey, into classrooms and communities, adjusting the focus of her presentations and workshops to speak to the age and interest of the audience.

Rachael’s award-winning curriculums have reached thousands of students of all ages, from as young as fourth grade to adult education. She collaborated with USC Shoah Foundation’s IWitness and Echoes & Reflections to develop classroom-ready resources to accompany her podcast, We Share The Same Sky, which was the first-ever narrative podcast to be based on a Holocaust survivor’s testimony. Those resources are now being used in classrooms across the country.


Analyzing Propaganda and Teaching Media Literacy: The Holocaust as a Case Study

HMMSA WORKSHOP FOR K-12 EDUCATORS

Explore the events of the Holocaust through the lens of media, by examining propaganda deployed by the Nazis to discriminate against Jews and other minorities. Educators gain the tools to facilitate classroom discussions on the role and impact of Nazi propaganda during the Holocaust and support their students to critically analyze media in today’s world.


Texas Holocaust Remembrance Week Planning Workshop

HMMSA Workshop for k-12 educators

Join the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio and fellow educators at this virtual planning workshop in preparation for Texas Holocaust Remembrance Week.

Featuring Keynote Speaker: Dr. JE Wolfson

State Coordinator of Education at the Texas Holocaust Genocide & Antisemitism Advisory Commission

Lesson Ideas for Holocaust Education Week

Upcoming programming and resource information from HMMSA

Panel Presentations by:

Lisa Barry - 5th Grade Teacher

Camila Castro - Middle School Librarian

Shelby Lotre - High School Teacher

Rachel Salinas - KLRN Director of School Services


Holocaust Education Workshops


 

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)

HMMSA Workshop for 6th-12th Grade


This workshop was presented by HMMSA with Christina Chavarría from the Levine Institute for Holocaust Education at the USHMM and explored Night by Elie Wiesel and the Some Were Neighbors USHMM Exhibit.  This workshop also provides lessons & ideas for Texas Holocaust Remembrance Week for grades 6-12.


 

HMMSA Elementary Education Workshop

Workshop for k-5 grade


This workshop was focused on the special considerations educators of K-5 students must take into account when introducing the topic of the Holocaust to younger students. This workshop provides an overview of Holocaust pedagogy and includes ideas for teaching empathy, and tolerance in the classroom.


 

HMMSA Secondary Education Workshop

Workshop for 6th - 12th grade


This workshop was geared towards educators of 6th-12th grade and includes resources and lesson ideas for the classroom.