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COLLEGE OF ST. ELIZABETH IS HOSTING SERIES ON HOLOCAUST AND ARMENIAN GENOCIDE
16:35, 20 Mar 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan
In a continuing series, the College of St. Elizabeth's Center for
Holocaust and Genocide Education will sponsor several events in April
and May that are free and open to the public, all on the campus of
the college at 2 Convent Station Road, off Madison Avenue in the
Convent Station section of Morris Township. Some of the events will
provide professional development hours for teachers, the New Jersey
Hills reports.
* A day-long symposium, "Rescuers during the Holocaust: Acts of Courage
in Challenging Times," will be held Tuesday, April 21, for teachers,
students and the general public in the Dolan Performance Hall. The
event will begin at 8 a.m. with registration and breakfast and end at 3
p.m. The event is co-sponsored with the N.J. Commission on Holocaust
Education and the American Society for Yad Vashem and is free to
all. Advance registration is required at www.cse.edu/holocaustcenter.
The keynote speaker will be Suzanne Vromen, professor emeritus of
sociology at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., and author
of 2010's "Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Belgian Nuns and their
Daring Rescue of Young Jews from the Nazis."
The symposium's workshops will address Jewish and non-Jewish
rescuers, the New Jersey state mandate about Holocaust education,
global perspectives on Holocaust education, and how to use archival
documents in Holocaust education.
The 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide will be marked with
a program beginning at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 30, in the Dolan
Performance Hall. An introduction will be provided by Garabed "Chuck"
Haytaian, who was the Speaker of the state Assembly 1n 1991 when New
Jersey passed its law to mandate Holocaust and genocide education in
the schools. The event's co-sponsors are St. Mary's Armenian Church
in Livingston and the N.J. Commission on Holocaust Education.
Following remarks by College of St. Elizabeth President Helen J.
Streubert, the film "Aghet" will be shown, surveying the history of
Armenia with a focus on the Armenian genocide in 1915. Poetry and
music of Armenia and a selection of traditional Armenian foods will
be offered.
At 7:30 p.m. the college will premiere the film "Testimonies of
Armenian Genocide Survivors," introduced by Roy Stepanian, and followed
by a question-and-answer session with children and grandchildren of
survivors. The keynote speaker will be Herand M.
Markarian, whose topic will be "The Impact of the Armenian Genocide:
100 Years Later."
The event is free and open to the public. Teachers who attend
will receive curriculum materials for teaching about the Armenian
genocide as well as certificates for professional development
hours. For teachers, advance registration is required at
www.cse.edu/holocaustcenter.
>From 4 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 7, a free teacher-training event,
"Echoes and Reflections," will be held in the college's Annunciation
Center. The session will prepare educators to teach students the
complex history of the Holocaust in ways that stimulate engagement,
critical thinking and personal understanding.
Participants will receive a teachers' resource guide, supplementary
multimedia assets and other supportive tools for educators. The
session will engage teachers with the multimedia curriculum "Echoes
and Reflections," developed jointly by Yad Vashem, Israel's official
Holocaust memorial, museum and education center; the University of
Southern California (USC) Shoah Foundation, and the Anti-Defamation
League.
The topics for discussion will include: Studying the Holocaust,
anti-Semitism, Nazi Germany, the Jewish Ghetto, the "Final Solution,"
Jewish resistance, rescuers and non-Jewish resistance, survivors
and liberators, perpetrators, collaborators and bystanders; and the
children of the Holocaust.
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From: Baghdasarian
16:35, 20 Mar 2015
Siranush Ghazanchyan
In a continuing series, the College of St. Elizabeth's Center for
Holocaust and Genocide Education will sponsor several events in April
and May that are free and open to the public, all on the campus of
the college at 2 Convent Station Road, off Madison Avenue in the
Convent Station section of Morris Township. Some of the events will
provide professional development hours for teachers, the New Jersey
Hills reports.
* A day-long symposium, "Rescuers during the Holocaust: Acts of Courage
in Challenging Times," will be held Tuesday, April 21, for teachers,
students and the general public in the Dolan Performance Hall. The
event will begin at 8 a.m. with registration and breakfast and end at 3
p.m. The event is co-sponsored with the N.J. Commission on Holocaust
Education and the American Society for Yad Vashem and is free to
all. Advance registration is required at www.cse.edu/holocaustcenter.
The keynote speaker will be Suzanne Vromen, professor emeritus of
sociology at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y., and author
of 2010's "Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Belgian Nuns and their
Daring Rescue of Young Jews from the Nazis."
The symposium's workshops will address Jewish and non-Jewish
rescuers, the New Jersey state mandate about Holocaust education,
global perspectives on Holocaust education, and how to use archival
documents in Holocaust education.
The 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide will be marked with
a program beginning at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 30, in the Dolan
Performance Hall. An introduction will be provided by Garabed "Chuck"
Haytaian, who was the Speaker of the state Assembly 1n 1991 when New
Jersey passed its law to mandate Holocaust and genocide education in
the schools. The event's co-sponsors are St. Mary's Armenian Church
in Livingston and the N.J. Commission on Holocaust Education.
Following remarks by College of St. Elizabeth President Helen J.
Streubert, the film "Aghet" will be shown, surveying the history of
Armenia with a focus on the Armenian genocide in 1915. Poetry and
music of Armenia and a selection of traditional Armenian foods will
be offered.
At 7:30 p.m. the college will premiere the film "Testimonies of
Armenian Genocide Survivors," introduced by Roy Stepanian, and followed
by a question-and-answer session with children and grandchildren of
survivors. The keynote speaker will be Herand M.
Markarian, whose topic will be "The Impact of the Armenian Genocide:
100 Years Later."
The event is free and open to the public. Teachers who attend
will receive curriculum materials for teaching about the Armenian
genocide as well as certificates for professional development
hours. For teachers, advance registration is required at
www.cse.edu/holocaustcenter.
>From 4 to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 7, a free teacher-training event,
"Echoes and Reflections," will be held in the college's Annunciation
Center. The session will prepare educators to teach students the
complex history of the Holocaust in ways that stimulate engagement,
critical thinking and personal understanding.
Participants will receive a teachers' resource guide, supplementary
multimedia assets and other supportive tools for educators. The
session will engage teachers with the multimedia curriculum "Echoes
and Reflections," developed jointly by Yad Vashem, Israel's official
Holocaust memorial, museum and education center; the University of
Southern California (USC) Shoah Foundation, and the Anti-Defamation
League.
The topics for discussion will include: Studying the Holocaust,
anti-Semitism, Nazi Germany, the Jewish Ghetto, the "Final Solution,"
Jewish resistance, rescuers and non-Jewish resistance, survivors
and liberators, perpetrators, collaborators and bystanders; and the
children of the Holocaust.
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From: Baghdasarian