Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh

Summer Teachers Workshop, Presented by Echoes & Reflections – Day 2
2023-08-03 08:30 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Chatham University Shadyside Campus, 1 Woodland Road, Pittsburgh, PA, 15232, United States
This training is free of charge, and Act 48 credit hours will be available. It will be held in-person on Chatham University’s Shadyside campus, with courses led by Echoes & Reflections facilitators.
Day Two (6 Credit Hours) consists of:
Analyzing Propaganda and Teaching Media Literacy: The Holocaust as a Case Study
Participants explore the events of the Holocaust through the lens of media, by examining propaganda deployed by the Nazis to discriminate against Jews and other minorities. Educators gain tools to facilitate classroom discussions and support students to analyze media in today’s world.
Teaching the Holocaust Using the Humanities: Integrating Photographs, Literature, Art, and Poetry to tell the Human Story
Educators learn strategies to integrate multiple primary sources into Holocaust instruction with a focus on the human experience. This program will examine a range of sources including photography, art, literature and poetry.
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Summer Teachers Workshop, Presented by Echoes & Reflections - Day 1
2023-08-02 08:30 - 16:00 | Chatham University Shadyside Campus, 1 Woodland Road, Pittsburgh, PA, 15232, United States
This training is free of charge, and Act 48 credit hours will be available. It will be held in-person on Chatham University’s Shadyside campus, with courses led by Echoes & Reflections facilitators.
Day One (4 Credit Hours) consists of:
Foundations of Holocaust Education (9:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.)
This program is designed to enhance teachers’ knowledge, capacity, and confidence to teach about the Holocaust. Educators are introduced to pedagogical principles and explore classroom lessons, visual history testimonies and other resources that examine aspects of the history and its continued relevance today. This program will provide a broad historical overview grounded in effective instructional strategies or focus on specific themes aligned with Echoes & Reflections content that helps to address Pennsylvania State Standards.
Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh Resources (1:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
Learn about our own programs and education outreach efforts, including our CHUTZ-POW! Superheroes of the Holocaust comic book series, Generations Speakers Bureau, exhibit and field trip offerings, the Butterfly Project, and combatting antisemitism initiative.
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Save the Date: By the Waters of Babylon at Carnegie Science Center
2022-05-25 19:00 - 22:00, 2022-05-18 19:00 - 22:00 | Carnegie Science Center, 1 Allegheny Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15212, Pittsburgh, PA, 15212, US
By the Waters of Babylon at Carnegie Science Center. Showtimes TBA. RSVP to be notified when tickets are available for purchase.

PLEASE NOTE: This is a save the date to receive more information when tickets are available for purchase.
The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh, in partnership with the Clarion Quartet and the Carnegie Science Center, is proud to present the documentary By The Waters of Babylon, a story of composers who created hope in a time of darkness and a modern-day string quartet dedicated to shining a light on their legacy.
This project, made possible by The Heinz Endowments Small Arts Initiative, uses the medium of 360 video to take viewers on an immersive journey into the world of composers silenced by the Holocaust and a contemporary string quartet’s mission to bring this music to a wider audience. Viewers begin their experience situated in the center of the Clarion Quartet as they perform String Quartet #3 by Viktor Ullmann, a composer who suffered under Nazi oppression. By the Waters of Babylon then interweaves images of the past and the present as it tells the story of the “Entartete Musik” composers and the Clarion Quartet’s mission to shine light on music silenced by oppression.
The Clarion Quartet is composed of Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra musicians who aim to give a voice to great composers who suffered the injustices of oppression. Their current repertoire features the work of composers who were detained in the Nazi camps yet continued to create beautiful, meaningful work. In 2016, during a Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra European tour, the quartet arranged a performance at the Theresienstadt camp in the Czech Republic where some of the pieces they performed were originally composed. The quartet’s collective memory of this moving experience serves as the departure point for this project; their thoughts lead the viewer on a journey into the lives and works of these composers and the creation of art in the face of the darkest atrocities.

Waldman 2022 Award Ceremony and Celebration
2022-05-01 19:00 - 2022-05-31 22:00 | PA
Exact date, time, and details TBA

At this festive event, students will close out the school year celebrating their accomplishments. Attendees will be able to socialize with students from other schools locally and internationally that participated in the Waldman International Arts and Writing Competition and to see the full array of submissions from the year’s competition. All participants in the competition and their families are encouraged to attend. The winners of the scholarship awards will be announced for the first time at this event.
Program may be held in-person and/or online, depending on safety guidance at that point in time.

Yom HaShoah 2022 Commemoration
2022-04-27 19:00 - 20:00 | PA
Details TBA. RSVP to receive updates as they become available.

Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day, is the cornerstone program of the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh. It is the day set aside to remember the approximately six-million Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Yom HaShoah is held each year on the 27th of the Jewish month of Nisan. Because the 27th of Nisan changes each year on the secular calendar, the date of the commemoration varies year to year.
The 2022 Yom HaShoah program is underwritten by Agnes Rocher and Family, in memory of her husband George.

Save the Date: The White Rose Global Classroom
2022-04-25 08:00 - 2022-04-29 17:00 | PA
RSVP to receive more details about this free program when they are available.

This event will take place on the week of April 25, 2022. Exact date, time, and details TBA. RSVP here to receive information as it becomes available.
During this virtual event, students from schools in the US and other countries will come together to discuss the bravery of the students of the White Rose and how their example can be followed in activism and resistance today.
Classrooms that participate in Global Classroom will receive free access for their classes to stream The White Rose, presented by the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh and Prime Stage Theatre.

Save the Date: The White Rose (On-Demand)
2022-04-16 19:00 - 2022-04-26 23:30 | PA
Prime Stage Theatre and the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh Present: The White Rose. RSVP to be notified when tickets are available.

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Event Description: The Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh is proud to partner with Prime Stage Theatre to offer this virtual play event. Classrooms will receive special ticket rates to stream this original production of The White Rose.
In the summer of 1942, leaflets calling for resistance against the Nazi regime began appearing around the city of Munich, Germany. They were found in the mail and left on trains and buses, in phone booths and theater lobbies, and in and around the university. Soon they began appearing in other cities around the country. It was some of the very first overt resistance against the Nazi regime, acts which, at a time of war, were considered high treason.
The group responsible for these leaflets called itself The White Rose. Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans, and their friends Christoph Probst, Alexander Schmorell, Willie Graf – college students – and Professor Kurt Huber were the driving forces behind The White Rose. This group, synonymous with resistance against nazism, is the subject of this remarkable play by James DeVita.

Save the Date: The White Rose (Livestream)
2022-04-09 19:00 - 22:00 | PA

Genocide Awareness Month
2022-04-01 00:00 - 2022-04-30 23:30 | PA
RSVP to receive updates about this year’s commemorative activities as they become available.

Event Description: Several programs will be offered throughout the month of April from the Holocaust Center and our partners from LIGHT and Together We Remember. Many of these programs will encourage student leadership and participation and connect to the topics of resistance and resilience.
The Enough Project gives the following description of Genocide Awareness Month:
April is designated as Genocide Awareness and Prevention Month each year, as it marks important anniversaries for multiple acts of genocide in the 20th century. Throughout the month, individuals and organizations join together to commemorate and honor victims and survivors, educate the public about past and contemporary genocides, and advocate for prevention against future mass atrocities. Together, we seek to empower and amplify voices from across the world that have in one way or another been affected by past genocides or have taken up the challenge to combat mass atrocities in the future.

Teacher Training 4: Salvaged Pages
2022-03-04 08:30 - 12:00 | PA
Salvaged Pages: Diaries and Eyewitness Accounts in Holocaust Education
A training with Alexandra Zapruder

Our Summer Institute has been rescheduled into this four-part Teacher Training series taking place over the course of the school year. We are pleased to share that we’ll be able to offer these sessions to educators FREE of charge!
It is strongly recommended that teachers attend the entire series. All trainings will take place 8:30am-12pm ET and Act 48 credit will be granted to eligible participants.

Teacher Training 1: Comics & Curriculum: Engaging Students in Historical Representation & Memory (Friday, October 29, 2021)
Teacher Training 2: Using the Arts in the Classroom (Friday, February 4, 2022)
Teacher Training 3: Defiant Requiem: Music and Holocaust Education (Friday, February 18, 2022)
Teacher Training 4: Salvaged Pages: Diaries and Eyewitness Accounts in Holocaust Education (Friday, March 4, 2022)

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Event Description: Diaries have the ability to not only document historical fact for readers, but also carry the powerful potential to have readers gain a better understanding of the writers behind the words. “…personal in its content, private in its intent, and spontaneous in its form…” diaries, like other artistic expressions of the Holocaust, offer a variety of format in which to receive and understand testimony.
Alexandra Zapruder, author and editor of Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust, will share the framework for Salvaged Pages and selected readings, an overview of resources for teachers, and participate in Q&A with participants. She will also share specific examples of writing exercises teachers can use in their classrooms to get students to interact with these historical diary entries in a meaningful way.
About Alexandra Zapruder: Alexandra Zapruder began her career as a member of the founding staff of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. A graduate of Smith College, she earned her Ed.M. in Education at Harvard University in 1995.
In 2002, Alexandra completed her first book, Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust, which was published by Yale University Press and won the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category.She wrote and co-produced I’m Still Here, a documentary film for young audiences based on her book, which aired on MTV in May 2005 and was nominated for two Emmy awards.
She has been published in Parade, LitHub, Smithsonian Magazine, and The New York Times.

Teacher Training 3: Defiant Requiem
2022-02-18 08:30 - 12:00 | PA
Defiant Requiem: Music and Holocaust Education
A training with Murry Sidlin and Alexandra Zapruder

Our Summer Institute has been rescheduled into this four-part Teacher Training series taking place over the course of the school year. We are pleased to share that we’ll be able to offer these sessions to educators FREE of charge!
It is strongly recommended that teachers attend the entire series. All trainings will take place 8:30am-12pm ET and Act 48 credit will be granted to eligible participants.

Teacher Training 1: Comics & Curriculum: Engaging Students in Historical Representation & Memory (Friday, October 29, 2021)
Teacher Training 2: Using the Arts in the Classroom (Friday, February 4, 2022)
Teacher Training 3: Defiant Requiem: Music and Holocaust Education (Friday, February 18, 2022)
Teacher Training 4: Salvaged Pages: Diaries and Eyewitness Accounts in Holocaust Education (Friday, March 4, 2022)

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Event Description: Defiant Requiem is an educational program that teaches the story of Jewish prisoners of the Nazis who used music to defy their oppressors, find courage, and sustain hope. The founder of the Defiant Requiem Foundation, Murry Sidlin, will present this peer-reviewed curriculum and help teachers find ways to incorporate musical resistance into their lessons.
About Murry Sidlin: Murry Sidlin, a conductor with a unique gift for engaging audiences, continues a diverse and distinctive musical career. He is the president and creative director of The Defiant Requiem Foundation, an organization that sponsors live concert performances of Defiant Requiem: Verdi at Terezín and Hours of Freedom: The Story of the Terezín Composer; as well as other projects including the documentary film, Defiant Requiem; a new docudrama called Mass Appeal, 1943, which was premiered in June 2017; and The Rafael Schächter Institute for Arts and Humanities at Terezín. In addition, he lectures extensively on the arts and humanities as practiced by the prisoners in the Theresienstadt (Terezín) Concentration Camp.
About Alexandra Zapruder: Alexandra Zapruder began her career as a member of the founding staff of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. A graduate of Smith College, she earned her Ed.M. in Education at Harvard University in 1995.
In 2002, Alexandra completed her first book, Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust, which was published by Yale University Press and won the National Jewish Book Award in the Holocaust category.She wrote and co-produced I’m Still Here, a documentary film for young audiences based on her book, which aired on MTV in May 2005 and was nominated for two Emmy awards.
She has been published in Parade, LitHub, Smithsonian Magazine, and The New York Times.

Teacher Training 2: Using the Arts in the Classroom
2022-02-04 08:30 - 12:00 | PA
Using the Arts in the Classroom
A training with Nick Haberman and Tiffany O’Shea

Our Summer Institute has been rescheduled into this four-part Teacher Training series taking place over the course of the school year. We are pleased to share that we’ll be able to offer these sessions to educators FREE of charge!
It is strongly recommended that teachers attend the entire series. All trainings will take place 8:30am-12pm ET and Act 48 credit will be granted to eligible participants.

Teacher Training 1: Comics & Curriculum: Engaging Students in Historical Representation & Memory (Friday, October 29, 2021)
Teacher Training 2: Using the Arts in the Classroom (Friday, February 4, 2022)
Teacher Training 3: Defiant Requiem: Music and Holocaust Education (Friday, February 18, 2022)
Teacher Training 4: Salvaged Pages: Diaries and Eyewitness Accounts in Holocaust Education (Friday, March 4, 2022)

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Event Description: For years the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh has espoused the arts as a tool for dealing with the difficult subject of the Holocaust. But what does that look like when it’s successful? What are some practical tips and tricks for making it happen, perhaps in the face of limited time or even adversity in your school or district? Veteran teachers Nick Haberman and Tiffany O’Shea will share their wealth of knowledge on implementing the arts into Holocaust education, showing example programs and lessons that they have implemented successfully and lessons they have learned along the way.
About Nick Haberman: Nick Haberman (he/him) is a 4th generation teacher from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2018, he was named the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh’s “Holocaust Educator of the Year,” the Pennsylvania Council for the Social Studies “Secondary Teacher of the Year,” Incline Magazine’s “Who’s Next in Education,” “Master Teacher of the Holocaust” by the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, and he is a 2019-2020 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum teacher fellow. In addition to creating and managing the Light Education Initiative, Nick teaches “The Holocaust: Background, Tragedy, and Aftermath” and “Multiculturalism, Genocide, and Human Rights Violations” at Shaler Area High School.
About Tiffany O’Shea: Tiffany O’Shea earned a BA in English from Washington and Jefferson College and a MA in teaching from the University of Pittsburgh. She currently teaches 10th grade English at Montour High School, and has been teaching Holocaust literature for the last ten years. Tiffany uses project-based learning to help students discover a deeper, more personal connection to the curriculum. Art Against Atrocities was a student-created project from one such PBL unit. In addition to advising Art Against Atrocities, Tiffany is also the LIGHT Education Initiative coordinator and club sponsor for Montour High School and a 2019 Jewish Foundation for the Righteous fellow.

Save the Date: International Holocaust Remembrance Day
2022-01-27 10:00 - 17:00 | PA
Save the date for our 2022 commemoration event

We are collaborating with world-renowned institutions to present a special concert for this year’s commemoration. RSVP to this eventbrite to receive more information and the official registration when it becomes available.
About International Holocaust Remembrance Day: The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
On this annual day of commemoration, the UN urges every member state to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism and to develop educational programs to help prevent future genocides.

“Five Photos of Amiens” Part 6: Those With No Photograph
2021-06-03 15:00 - 15:15 | PA
Part 6 of a six-part mini-doc series featuring Dr. David Rosenberg

In early 2021, the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh provided Dr. David Rosenberg with a prompt: select 5 photographs from your research on Amiens and talk about them. This six-part mini doc series is the result of that prompt, as Dr. Rosenberg talks to Center director Dr. Lauren Bairnsfather about the stories behind the selected photos and what those stories illustrate about the larger French Jewish experience during the Holocaust.
Schedule:

Part 1: Community airs April 27
Part 2: Refugees airs May 6
Part 3: Aryanization airs May 13
Part 4: A Family in Crisis airs May 20
Part 5: Deportation airs May 27
Part 6: Those With No Photograph airs June 3

“Five Photos of Amiens” Part 5: Deportation
2021-05-27 15:00 - 15:30 | PA
Part 5 of a six-part mini-doc series featuring Dr. David Rosenberg

In early 2021, the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh provided Dr. David Rosenberg with a prompt: select 5 photographs from your research on Amiens and talk about them. This six-part mini doc series is the result of that prompt, as Dr. Rosenberg talks to Center director Dr. Lauren Bairnsfather about the stories behind the selected photos and what those stories illustrate about the larger French Jewish experience during the Holocaust.
Schedule:

Part 1: Community airs April 27
Part 2: Refugees airs May 6
Part 3: Aryanization airs May 13
Part 4: A Family in Crisis airs May 20
Part 5: Deportation airs May 27
Part 6: Those With No Photograph airs June 3
