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Program Leadership

Elaine Culbertson, Program Director, former high school English teacher and school administrator, is the Chair of the Pennsylvania Holocaust Education Council.

Stephen Feinberg, Program Coordinator, is the former Director of National Outreach for Teacher Initiatives at the U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Holocaust & Jewish Resistance Teachers' Program

The 2013 Summer Study Program in Washington, DC, Poland, Germany, and the Chech Republic for Secondary School Teachers
The Summer Seminar Program on Holocaust and Jewish Resistance was initiated by Vladka Meed in 1984. The seminar is for secondary school teachers who implement Holocaust studies in their classrooms. Our group of approximately 30 secondary school teachers visits historic sites and hears from survivors and prominent scholars.   Auschwitz Gate

Program Goals

  • To advance education in U.S. secondary schools about the Holocaust and Jewish Resistance
  • To deepen teachers' knowledge and strengthen their ability to implement Holocaust studies in their classrooms
  • To teach each new generation about the Holocaust and Jewish resistance, so that they will know, understand, and never forget
  • To further educational activities which use the lessons of the past as warnings for the present and the future

Curriculum

  • Martyrdom and the Struggle for Survival in Jewish History
  • Life in the Ghettoes and the Camps
  • "The Final Solution"
  • Armed Resistance and Revolt
  • Spiritual Resistance
  • Reaction of the Free World
  • The Holocaust in Literature and Art
  • Post-War Impact of the Holocaust

The 2012 Program

2012 Alumni in Warsaw

The 2012 program alumni standing in front of the
Monument to the Ghetto Heroes in Warsaw.

Last year's itinerary began with a visit to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. The group then traveled to Israel and studied at Yad Vashem. For the third time, the Summer Seminar included Germany enabling us to visit the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Bergen Belsen, Sachsenhausen, and Ravensbrueck concentration camps. In Poland, they saw a number of the death camps—including Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Plaszow, Majdanek and Belzec—as well as the site of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

The 2013 Program

The 2013 trip will begin with a visit to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. The group will then travel to Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic which will allow a visit to Theresienstadt and the many Jewish heritage sites of Prague.

Program Itinerary

View The 2013 Program Itinerary by clicking on this link.

Application

In order to complete the application process, you will need to download and install Adobe Reader XI on your computer. Adobe Reader is a free application. Adobe Reader can be downloaded at http://get.adobe.com/reader/. Adobe Reader is necessary to complete the application because this year all applications must be submitted electronically.

Once you have downloaded and installed Adobe Reader XI, click on the files' icons below to download them to your computer. Open them in the order they are listed here.

  Read_Me_First You should print this file once it opens. It will make it easier for you to read while the other documents are open on your computer.
  Read_Me_Next You will need to have downloaded and installed Adobe Reader XI to open this file. See above.
  Applications_ZIP

This ZIP file contains four application forms:
        Health_Consent_Form_2013.pdf
        Medical Application 2013.pdf
        Program Application 2013.pdf
        Signature_Validation_Form_2013.pdf

Follow the directions for submission on each of the four applications. Remember, applications must be submitted electronically.

Applications will be evaluated by a committee as they are received and spaces are filled on a rolling basis—so applying early is to your advantage. All applications must reach our office no later than Friday, March 15, 2013.

Cost

Cost to the applicant is $3,000, which includes round-trip travel from Washington, DC, trips to historic sites, hotel accommodations (2 to a room) and 2 meals daily.

Payment is expected immediately upon notification of acceptance, at which time you will receive specifics on the program.

NOTE: The $3,000 program fee is supplemented by the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and other supporting organizations.

Contact Information

Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teachers' Program
c/o The American Gathering
122 W. 30th St., Suite 205
New York, NY 10001
Phone: 212-239-4230