Summer Program
The Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teachers' Program is an intensive three week learning and living experience in Washington, DC, Poland, Germany and Israel for U.S. secondary school teachers who are committed to teaching about the Holocaust and Jewish resistance in their classes upon completion of the program. This year's program is scheduled for July 5–26, 2010. more
The National Alumni Conference
On February 12–15, 2010, the alumni of the program met at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, D.C. for a celebration of the 25th anniversary of our seminar. Begun in 1985 with teachers who hailed from the east coast primarily, the HAJRTP has gone on to become the premier Holocaust education program in the United States, and has spawned many similar programs all over the world. With more than 900 graduates, we have a wide reaching network and have been able to influence the way the Holocaust is presented in textbooks, represented in museums, and taught in schools. more
Vladka Meed
Vladka Meed is the founder of the Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teachers' Program. She was a member of the Jewish underground in the Warsaw Ghetto from its first days. Meed’s book, On Both Sides of the Wall, recounts how she served in the resistance by passing as a Christian outside the Warsaw Ghetto. Because of her typically "Aryan" appearance, and fluency in Polish, she was not only able to smuggle weapons to the Jewish Fighting Organization inside the ghetto, but also to help Jewish children escape from the ghetto to be sheltered in Christian homes.
After the war, Vladka Meed continued to lecture on the Holocaust, and, together with her husband, Benjamin Meed ז"ל, was extremely active in Holocaust education and memorialization.
Vladka Meed has decided to step back from directing the program. Elaine Culbertson and Steve Feinberg will be sharing this task. Both have long and fruitful relationships with the program and are experienced Holocaust educators. They are fully committed to the program and feel that it is through the strength of our alumni that Vladka's message will continue to be taught.