Free Mini-Course
Tuesdays, March 12th, 19th, and 26th
4:30 PM - 7:00 PM
Educational materials and dinner included.
IN-PERSON
Location: Miller Hall, Rutgers College Avenue Campus, New Brunswick
Theresienstadt has been called the "model" camp by some, "the last ghetto" by others.
Course Description: Theresienstadt served an important propaganda function for the Germans. Many prominent artists, musicians and cultural figures were deported there and it served as a “model” camp for visits by the International Red Cross.
This course will focus on individual stories pre-war through post-war with the use of:
- material objects
- personal family archives
- artwork
- women's and children's experiences
- oral histories
Teachers will be able to introduce students to this major Holocaust site using a variety of different sources and methodological approaches.
$300 Stipend for teachers upon successful completion of the mini-course.
Continuing education credits provided.
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Presenters
Justin Cammy is professor and chair of Jewish Studies and World Literatures at Smith College, where he teaches and researches Yiddish literature and the cultural history of Jewish Eastern Europe. In recent years he has held fellowships at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, the University of Michigan, and Yad Vashem.His critical edition and translation of Abraham Sutzkever's From the Vilna Ghetto to Nuremberg: Memoir and Testimony was awarded the 2022 Leviant Prize in Yiddish Studies from the Modern Language Association.
Colleen Tambuscio is the Pedagogical Consultant to the MTI and has served in this position for over twelve years. She is a long time special education and regular education teacher and a leading voice in Holocaust education, both in New Jersey and nationally. She is the founder and president of the Council of Holocaust Educators, a statewide professional development organization, and is an educational consultant to the NJ Commission on Holocaust Education. She established a Holocaust education curriculum at New Milford High School which now includes two elective classes: “The Holocaust, Genocide and Human Behavior” and “Contemporary Genocide: A Call to Action.”
Colleen was honored by Princeton University and by the New Milford Educational Foundation. In 1998, Colleen was named a Mandel Fellow to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and continues to serve as a U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Regional Educator. Colleen earned an MA in Jewish-Christian Studies from Seton Hall University.
