Echoes and Reflections Workshop: Dilemmas of Women During the Holocaust

This workshop will also relate to hate crimes, scapegoating and propaganda. The registration fee is only $25 (includes food and materials!) Be sure to reserve your spot!

Echoes and Reflections prepares teachers to teach the complex history of the Holocaust in a way that stimulates engagement, critical thinking and personal understanding among students. This comprehensive, interdisciplinary, multimedia program delivers professional development and a rich array of interactive resources for middle and high school teachers. Echoes and Reflections combines the experience and resources of three world leaders in education: the Anti-Defamation League, USC Shoah Foundation, and Yad Vashem. It is a multimedia program that provides US secondary educators with professional development and print and online resources to teach about the Holocaust in today's classrooms. Echoes and Reflections promotes an interdisciplinary approach to teaching about the Holocaust while using informational texts, primary source documents, and visual history testimony. The ten multi-part and modular lessons engage students in the lives of survivors, rescuers, liberators, and other witnesses of the Holocaust.

The presenter: Sheryl Ochayon, Program Director, Echoes and Reflections, Yad Vashem has a BA in History from the State University of New York at Binghamton and a JD from Harvard Law School. After a long legal career, she began working at Yad Vashem in 2005. In her work for the Educational Technologies Department of the International School for Holocaust Studies, she was responsible for creating, writing and developing online courses as well as educational video programs for the Holocaust Education Video Toolbox. She also edited and contributed articles to the online e-newsletter, "Teaching the Legacy." Sheryl is currently Yad Vashem's Project Director for the Echoes and Reflections program, a program that combines the resources and expertise of three world leaders in education – the Anti-Defamation League, USC Shoah Foundation, and Yad Vashem – with the goal of preparing US secondary educators to effectively engage students in Holocaust education through a multimedia program that is meaningful, comprehensive, accessible, and integrated. Sheryl has represented Yad Vashem in different contexts both in the US and in Israel, speaking on various topics at seminars and international conferences. She also presented a learning unit developed by Yad Vashem together with the ADL and USCSF at the 2013 United Nations conference on "Holocaust Education: Tools and Techniques." Sheryl has been guiding at Yad Vashem's Holocaust History Museum since 2005. She is a licensed guide for youth groups traveling to Poland, and has guided many groups there, including Israeli teenagers, American teenagers, the Israel Defense Forces and the Israeli police force, and FIDF and Yad Vashem donors. Sheryl made aliyah to Israel from New York in 1995. She is married to Morris and they have three children.

This event is part of the Cohen Center calendar.