Fall 2011: Holocaust lecture Sept. 16; 'Teaching the Holocaust' workshop Sept. 17

by Kathleen McCoy  |   

Lecture: Friday, Sept. 16, 7 p.m., Rasmuson Hall Workshop: Saturday, Sept. 17, 8:15-4 p.m., UAA ADM Building, Room 145

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, in cooperation with the University of Alaska Anchorage, will sponsor a one-day workshop on Teaching the Holocaust. The workshop is free of charge to middle and high school teachers and includes books and teaching resources from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Lunch will be provided.

In addition to the workshop on Sept. 17, there will also be an open forum lecture on Friday, Sept. 16, at 7 p.m. in Rasmuson Hall on the University of Alaska Anchorage campus. Dr. Peter Black, Senior Historian at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, will speak on the links between Nazi racial policy, the German invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, and the Holocaust. In the 1980s and 1990s, Black worked for the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Special Investigations, as part of a team tracking and prosecuting suspected war criminals. Dr. Black also has recently published work on the trawniki, the auxiliary non-German concentration and death camp guards.

For more information, contact William Myers, Associate Professor of History at University of Alaska Anchorage, at afwlm@uaa.alaska.edu or (907) 786-1948 or Robert Hadley, Regional Education Corps, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, at hadleyrs67@msn.com or (503) 880-5626.

To register, click here.

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