| A Word from our Executive Director |
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
The beginning of the academic and Jewish calendar year signals the kick-off of many exciting and new initiatives here at the THC. As we look forward to attending this year's Vanderbilt Holocaust Lecture Series, Second Generation programming, and Dr. Inge Auerbacher's address at the conferences statewide we continue to answer the question, "Why do the lessons of the Holocaust matter, after all these years later?"
Father Patrick Desbois, a Catholic priest who has devoted his life to finding the unmarked graves of forgotten victims of the Holocaust was quoted this past week on 60 Minutes stating, "It matters because it still happens, it's not the past, unfortunately. It seems to be part of the future. " Father Desbois looks around and he knows that there's a direct line between what the Nazis did 70 years ago and what is happening today."
History, despite its wrenching pain
Cannot be unlived, and if faced with courage,
Need not be lived again.
Lift up your eyes upon
The day breaking for you.
Give birth again
To the dream
Every day the Tennessee Holocaust Commission strives to work as a catalyst and resource to make the hope and dream of "Never Again" become a reality. Together, we teach about the past in hopes that those who will come after us will not allow history to repeat itself.
With appreciation for your support,
Danielle Kahane-Kaminsky
Executive Director
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Introducing Father Patrick Desbois, 2016 Keynote Speaker for the Nashville Conference
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The
Tennessee Holocaus
t Commission is excited to announce that Father Patrick Desbois will serve as the keynote speaker for the 2016 Holocaust Conference in Nashville. He was recently featured on 60 Minutes. The link to his interview is below. Click here to watch the interview.
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October 12, 2015
-Presentation by author and history professor Wendy Lower-Vanderbilt University
October 14, 2015
-Jimmy Gentry speaks at Bellevue Middle School-Nashville, TN
October 15, 2015
Cartography of Hate at MTSU-Murfreesboro, TN
Showing of the Academy Award-Winning film, Ida-Vanderbilt University
October 26, 2015
Limor (Nashville) Holocaust Education Conference Featuring child s
urvivor Dr. Inge Auerbacher
October 29, 2015
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Memphis Holocaust Education Conference, featuring child survivor
Dr. Inge Auerbacher.
-Felicia Anchor presents at International Council of Jewish Women, Mexico City, Mexico.
November 3, 2015
Panel Discussion: Rape as a Genocidal Act-Vanderbilt University
November 6, 2016
-Jimmy Gentry speaks at
Macon
Country Lafayette, TN
-BBYO Shabbat to remember with Frances and George Hahn, Nashville, Tn
November 9, 2016
Meeting of the TN Holocaust Commission-Nashville, TN
November 18, 2015
Second Generation Gathering featuring historian Dr. Joseph White,
Nashville, TN
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| Metro Police Recruits study the Holocaust at the Gordon Jewish Community Center in Nashville as part of their diversity training. |
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| Art Pais with Dr. Chitiyo following a speaking engagement at TN Tech in Cookeville, TN. |
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| Art Pais Speaking at Remembering WWII in Linden, TN |
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| Hidden Child Sonja Dubois with her Husband at Tennessee Tech |
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Art Pais Participates in Remembering World War II in Linden, TN
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| Art and Reenactor at Remembering WWII in Linden, TN |
WWII history came to life in Linden, TN on September 26th. Attendees of Remembering WWII had the rare opportunity to hear Dachau survivor, Art Pais share his story along with other local WWII veterans. Participants also experienced two WWII re-enactments, an army encampment, live big band music, a 1940s canteen, and vintage vehicles. It was an unforgettable day of honoring heroes, connecting personally with the past, and experiencing a taste of life in the 1940s.
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| The crowd in Linden, TN listens to Art speak |
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Teaching Students to Read Like Historians
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"I was so impressed by the training and moved by the content. It was by far one of the best trainings I have encountered in 20 years of teaching."
-Kattina Noel, Teacher at Two Rivers Middle School
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Danielle Kaminsky sharing techniques for analyzing primary source documents
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Executive Director, Danielle Kahane-Kaminsky presen
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ed a workshop at the Tennessee Council for History Educatio
n titled: "Teaching Students to Read Like Historians." Edu
cators
studied and analyzed eyewitness accounts of a transport fr
om Dusseldorf to Riga during the Holocaust from the perspective of Paul Salitter, a Police Office in charge of the transport, and Hilde Sherman, a
young Jewish woman who was deported on this transport. Participants were provided with historical background reg
arding the documents, discussion questions for use in the classroom, and examples of techniques to use during lessons.
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| Educators Analyzing the Testimony |
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Holocaust Forum at Tennessee Tech Attracts 600 Attendees
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Executive Director Danielle Kahane-Kaminsky, Liberator Jimmy Gentry, and Hidden Child Sonja Dubois speaking at TN Tech
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Sonja DuBois of Knoxville and Jimmy Gentry, a Franklin native, spoke at Tennessee Tech University on October 1st. DuBois was hidden from the Nazis as a child, while Gentry served in a unit that liberated the Dachau Concentration camp. These Tennesseans shared their memories and experiences of the Holocaust with a crowd of more than 600. Danielle Kahane-Kaminsky, Executive Director of the state's Holocaust Commission, moderated the panel. The event was sponsored by the Center Stage Series, which is made possible by TTU's general education fund. It was free and open to the public.
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Left: Hidden Child Sonja Dubois pictured with Dr. George Chitiyo at TN Tech.
Right: Liberator Jimmy Gentry & his friend Barbara Hendrix at TN Tech |
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4th Class of Metro Nashville Police Recruits Study About the Holocaust
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Recruits discuss the crimes committed by the German Police Battalion 101 and what lessons it has for them as officers.
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Fifty-seven Metro Police recruits took part in diversity training based on lessons learned
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om the Holocaust. The training took place at the Gordon Jewish Community Center on September 22nd. The half-day seminar was led by Executive Director
, Danielle Kahane-Kaminsky, and included
several case studies that involved police actions during the Holocaust. Kaminsky explained that the genocide perpetrated by Nazi Germany has lessons that are relevant
for police officers and others in positi
ons of authority today. The session ended with a tour of the Nashville Holocaust Memorial led by
Com
missioner, Felicia
Anchor.
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The seminar concluded with a tour of the Holocaust Memorial on the grounds of the GJCC. It was led by Commissioner, Felicia Anchor
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Postdoctoral Fellowship
The Azieli Foundation is excited to announce their call for applications for a postdoctoral fellowship during the 2016-2017 academic year. Deadline November 15, 2015. For Information on how to apply
click here.
-International Workshop for Displaced Children-Child Survivors
Recently, the world is facing the largest number of people forced to leave their home countries. Children, naturally, are among the victims of this massive displacement. 70 years ago, after WWII, in Europe around 10 to 11 million people were on the move - as survivors of the Shoah, liberated forced laborers and others persecuted by Nazi-Germany, and many of these were children. We believe the lessons learned then are very relevant today.
In order to explore the experience of children after WWII...the International Tracing Service (ITS) in Bad Arolsen is organizing a joint workshop with the Max Mannheimer Studien Zentrum, Dachau, with guidance of the Holocaust Studies Program of the Western Galilee College, Akko, Israel on the topic of Life in the aftermath - Displaced Persons, Displaced Children and Child Survivors on the move: New approaches in education and research. To learn more and submit a proposal
click here.
-Never/Forget/Why? Memorial Project
Never/Forget/Why? Is a memorial project created by Anna Wexberg-Kubesch. The memorial honors the 15,000 children murdered at Terezin. For more information
click here.
-Trip for Holocaust Educators
The Sousa Mendes Foundation has organized a "Journey on the Road to Freedom" guided tour from France to Portugal in the footsteps of Holocaust rescuer Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Righteous Among the Nations, and the refugees of 1940 who escaped via Lisbon. The trip begins in Bordeaux, France on the evening of Saturday, June 25, 2016 and concludes with a symbolic boat ride in Lisbon Harbor. The tour ends on Tuesday, July 5, 2016.For information on how to sign up click here.
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