Educators provided novel tools, resources to help communicate lessons of history, intolerance with focus on Nazi Germany.
Educators from throughout Vermont are meeting this time of rising antisemitism and intolerance with new insights and shared lessons gained from the Fifth Annual Holocaust Educators Workshop. The professional development workshop, “It Starts With Words: Teaching the Holocaust to Combat Hate,” organized by Vermont Holocaust Memorial (VTHM) with the support of Echoes and Reflections, a national organization for teachers, was the most successful in VTHM’s seven-year history, according to president and cofounder, Debora Steinerman.
“The teachers’ strong response and enthusiastic participation demonstrated that Vermont educators are not standing still in this rapidly changing atmosphere of hate and racism threatening our nation and its democracy,” noted Steinerman. “Through innovative resources and new approaches to teaching a difficult, painful time in the world’s history, we can expect that hundreds, if not more, Vermont students of all ages will be well served by these teachers’ experiences here today.”
Lindsay Levesque, history teacher from Brattleboro Union High School, noted: “I always learn something new—and I enjoy the community of teachers and to keep connections with the small group of other Holocaust educators.”
One participant observed that the professional development workshop afforded “ideas for how to reach my 7th and 8th grade students, meet them where they are at emotionally while teaching the gravity of the Holocaust and making it relevant to their world today.”
An assistant principal in attendance, pointed out that “Given our political and social standing today I feel it is a crucial time to teach Holocaust and genocide… we need to show students how the propaganda at that time is similar to what they are now experiencing.”
One teacher at the workshop noted a student denied the existence of the Holocaust and they were there to learn ways to deal with such issues.
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“Vermonters of good conscience, and the Jewish community in particular, are taken aback by the extraordinary surge in hatred and antisemitism,” said Steinerman. “Vermont is not immune to this kind of intolerance—motivated educators can be Vermont’s first line of defense, given the proper tools and support.”
Through the upcoming Vermont Holocaust Education Week (April 1-5, 2024), their speaker’s bureau, mobile exhibits, Leaf Project, and educator workshops, VTHM, the only Holocaust education memorial in the state, is committed to teaching the lessons of the Holocaust by honoring lives lost and sharing stories of survival. “We encourage standing up to hatred wherever it appears. It is our hope that the Vermont legislature will pass the “Vermont Holocaust Studies Act” (S.87 and H.294) this session, to ensure these timely lessons will be shared in our schools for our students’ futures,” says Steinerman.
The Vermont Holocaust Memorial is grateful to Burlington’s Ohavi Zedek Synagogue and the Lost Mural Project (www.lostmural.org) for partnering in this year’s workshop.
Categories: Education, Press Release, Religion
try teaching the students how to read ,write, and do math/// history lessons are great, now give some examples of hate and antisemitism and where this is taking place///
Candice Owens just did an interview with a Jewish rabi and she used the word Hag. He accused her of being antisemitic because the word originated 100s of years ago and was associated with Jewish woman, not that Candice Owens knew that or anyone else for that matter. Another article I read revealed that anyone who criticizes George Soros is accused of being an antisemist. If children don’t know about the Holocaust, maybe this should be discussed in a world history class. Why are teachers concerned all of a sudden. They are concerned because this is a concern of UNESCO, the EU, World Economic Forum.
it happened to me at the Vermont State House, Christine. Got called into the Senate Pro Tem office and everything. I didn’t even know Soros was Jewish.
The problem isn’t that certain people have personal points of view, accurate or otherwise. The problem is that some of them find themselves in positions of power over others. They are the so-called ‘teachers’ described in the Milgram Experiments. And keep in mind that the Milgram Experiments of the early 1960s were an attempt to explain the behavior of the German people when Hitler came into power. What goes around comes around.
The Holocaust didn’t begin with killing, it began with government caused economic despair, followed by disarming the public.
Individual groups and nations subsidized both sides of the fight and laughed all the way to the bank. When the war was over, they moved the Nazi scientists over to other countries to continue the eugenics program that is still ongoing today.
There, fixed that for them. Since when are teachers allowed to have blue hair?
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This is not totally true. The true war began when Hitler kicked the Rothschild banking clan out of the country. They were sucking the country dry. That’s a history you won’t see in the books. Of course the country was already pretty drained after WW1 indebtedness.
Actually, the war has never ended. WWII was a continuation of WWI that ended with an armistice… the terms of which set the stage for the Weimar Republic. The Rothchild family and its banking prowess goes back much further than the Weimar Republic. And its exploits are far more extensive than what was going on in Germany. Hitler needed an ‘enemy’ to unite his base. The Rothchild family were convenient players. As with the 1991 book by the Club of Rome, The First Global Revolution, there is always the search for a common enemy by political tyrants.
“The Common Enemy of Humanity Is Man. In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill.”
Again, it’s all a contrivance. Know this and make your decisions accordingly.
More attention needs to be paid to the fact that what made the reign of terror of the Third Reich possible was disarmament of the populace. We must prevent history from repeating itself by not allowing disarmament and by calling out this leftist-fashionable support for Hamas/Palestine for what it is…a continuation of nazi-style antisemitism and of the new rise of the fascist state. An armed society is a polite society. A disarmed society is a nation of sheep waiting to be slaughtered. This modern-day democrat party is essentially the Fourth Reich. A government that is strong enough to promise you everything you want is powerful enough to take everything you have.
Respectfully about the blue hair, the dye doesn’t leak into the brain or the heart. If someone cares about improving people’s lives through teaching, then that is their character.
stay tuned//// they are working on the third world war/// that will cover up the banking debt credit collapse//// this plan was started two hundred years ago/// the top of the pyramid is kept out of site//
I wonder if the educators advised how many Christians were wiped out during WWII? Operation Paperclip? Why is George Soros banned from Hungry and other countries? Where did all of those enemy scientists and engineers end up after WWII? Why is Ukraine so important? How is it connected to Isreal? Why is the United States so vested in propping up both with our money? The Crown and House of Rothschild – a kink in the lineage and the five sons? The Truth is coming out in spite of the ADL and Ben Shapiro. Divide and conquer – no matter how many die from their lies and deceit for well over a century. Every war is based on lies, the bankers fund both sides, and the military industrial complex propers. Carry on!
The Holocaust narrative originally came into the people’s awareness through the military industrial complex and the media. Many of us know this account is true because we trust these sources and because we have been exposed to the narrative countless times in our lifetime. So, for most of us this history has become obvious, and there is no other possible explanation for the pictures of dead bodies and emaciated inmates we have all seen. Many of us are unable to tolerate anyone who might question this. Today in this article we read about programs to help insure this intolerance continues to be propagated to younger generations.
Unfortunately for the status quo there is a small number of historians that have closely examined the forensic facts related to the claims of this history, and they have asked very pointed questions about the legitimacy of some of the Holocaust claims. For example they have made detailed studies and established facts that they believe have found that the use of gas chambers for extermination as described by the Holocaust narrative was impossible. These same historians have sought to initiate an open debate about their findings with the community that is entrenched in the existing narrative. So far, rather than agreeing to debate, the community supporting original Holocaust narrative have labeled the revisionist historians as criminals, banned their books, attacked their character and have put them in jail.
In my view, it better serves all of us to engage in open discussion seeking truth rather than teaching our children unexamined orthodoxy and for them to learn to be intolerant to debate.
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I am appalled by all the antisemitism an holocaust denial here in these comments.
I see no such thing based on antisemitism being defined as the hatred or dislike of Jewish people, as no one communicated this. Nor did anyone state that the Holocaust didn’t occur. So I am curious as to how you define these terms. Please enlighten us.