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'Project Upstander': Students Inspired by Choosing to Participate Exhibit Students at Wakefield High School in Arlington, Virginia, are taking a stand to promote safe school culture through a program called Project Upstanders. |
News | March 27, 2012 |
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Cynthia Hartman – Harribsurg High School, Harrisburg, PA
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Profile | January 11, 2011 |
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Holocaust Survivor Shares His Story with Educators At our Columbia College Summer Seminar led by Dr. Mary Johnson, senior historian for Facing History and Ourselves, educators heard the perspectives of two men with different experiences during the Holocaust. One of the men was Mr. Manfred Katz, who allowed his story to be filmed. Mr. Katz did not begin to speak about his experiences as a Holocaust survivor until the 1990s. He said, “I’ve found in talking to students and to the teachers that there are a lot of good ones [students] out there. |
News | July 20, 2011 |
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Holocaust Survivor Suzanne Freeling Speaks to Students in PA Suzanne Freeling had never spoken previously about her experiences during the Holocaust. Recalling the night the Nazis came to her parents' apartment in Brussels and her experiences in a children's home, she spoke to eight grade students at Swain School in Salisbury Township, PA, offering a unique perspective as a toddler who survived, much of the time alone. |
News | May 13, 2011 |
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Senior Writer Phyllis Goldstein to Speak at Kristallnacht Commemoration at Florida Holocaust Museum The Florida Holocaust Museum will commemorate Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass) on Nov. 9, with Facing History and Ourselves’ Phyllis Goldstein as the keynote speaker. As Facing History’s senior writer, Phyllis will discuss the organization’s latest book, A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism. “With no agenda except enlightenment, A Convenient Hatred allows us to finally comprehend the awful history of antisemitism,” wrote award-winning journalist and author Carl Bernstein. “It deserves the widest possible reading—by young, old, Jew, and non-Jew.” |
News | November 7, 2011 |
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White House Hosts Our Educators at Film Screening
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News | December 14, 2011 |
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‘Freedom Riders’ Workshops and Webinars to Take Place in Eight Cities this Fall Following a screening of the award-winning documentary Freedom Riders, Dr. Mary Johnson, senior historian at Facing History and Ourselves, will speak to audiences at the State University of New York College at Cortland on Sept. 28 about the film and the heroic group whose history it shares. Freedom Riders follows more than 400 black and white college students as they traveled on buses and trains through the Deep South in 1961. |
News | September 27, 2011 |
Cynthia Hartman – Harribsurg High School, Harrisburg, PA>“Facing History has been a crucial part of my classroom since I began using the curriculum three years ago. The school district in which I teach is dealing with racial tensions and violence.
Educators and staff from Facing History and Ourselves participated in an intimate film screening at the White House Tuesday night.
