Summer Seminar Program On Holocaust and Jewish Resistance
Initiated in 1984 by Vladka Meed and jointly administered by the American Gathering and the USHMM, this program takes middle school and high school teachers, both Jewish and non-Jewish alike, on trips to Holocaust sites in Poland and to Israel. Participating scholars come from Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, the Study Center at Kibbutz Lohamei HaGeta'ot, and the USHMM in Washington, D.C. A biannual Alumni Conference of the program's participants further reinforces its goals to foster remembrance and toleration.
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