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An Educator’s Journey of Spiritual Resistance, Courage and Resilience

The Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County (HMTC) presents a lecture and educator’s photo journey through the Holocaust, An Educator’s Journey of Spiritual Resistance, Courage and Resilience, about the Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teachers Program. The lecture will be given by Holocaust Educator Meryl Menashe.

The Holocaust devastated Jewish life in Europe. To teach the beauty of that life, spiritual resistance during the Holocaust using personal narratives, and ensure that it would not be forgotten, the Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teachers Program was born. Founded by Vladka Meed 32 years ago, the program has brought over 1100 educators to Holocaust sites and sent them back to their classrooms armed with tools and strategies to bring Holocaust education to all 50 states. The presentation will include sites witnessed including concentration camps, ghettos, memorials, museums and death camps; lessons learned of the unfathomable depths of mankind’s cruelty; and the courage of the human spirit through small, large and heroic acts of resistance.

During the journey, participants observe antisemitism and memorial desecration and rejoice as evidence that Jewish people triumphed through experiencing Israeli students singing Hatikvah at Treblinka, Shabbat in Lublin and Hebrew prayers chanted at Birkenau and so much more. The roads through towns take us to each place; roads in existence during the Shoah, and still lead us there today.

Meryl Menashe is the 2G leader, educator and docent at the Holocaust and Memorial Center of Nassau County. She was initially a fellow of the Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teachers Program and presently the program liaison and a Teacher Fellow of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum











When: Thu., Dec. 7, 2017 at 11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Where: Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County
Welwyn Preserve, 100 Crescent Beach Rd.
516-571-8040
Price: $10 suggested donation
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The Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County (HMTC) presents a lecture and educator’s photo journey through the Holocaust, An Educator’s Journey of Spiritual Resistance, Courage and Resilience, about the Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teachers Program. The lecture will be given by Holocaust Educator Meryl Menashe.

The Holocaust devastated Jewish life in Europe. To teach the beauty of that life, spiritual resistance during the Holocaust using personal narratives, and ensure that it would not be forgotten, the Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teachers Program was born. Founded by Vladka Meed 32 years ago, the program has brought over 1100 educators to Holocaust sites and sent them back to their classrooms armed with tools and strategies to bring Holocaust education to all 50 states. The presentation will include sites witnessed including concentration camps, ghettos, memorials, museums and death camps; lessons learned of the unfathomable depths of mankind’s cruelty; and the courage of the human spirit through small, large and heroic acts of resistance.

During the journey, participants observe antisemitism and memorial desecration and rejoice as evidence that Jewish people triumphed through experiencing Israeli students singing Hatikvah at Treblinka, Shabbat in Lublin and Hebrew prayers chanted at Birkenau and so much more. The roads through towns take us to each place; roads in existence during the Shoah, and still lead us there today.

Meryl Menashe is the 2G leader, educator and docent at the Holocaust and Memorial Center of Nassau County. She was initially a fellow of the Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teachers Program and presently the program liaison and a Teacher Fellow of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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