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Programs & Workshops
Education As Resistance offers several standard programs which can be customized for whatever your educational objective may be. We can work with you to tailor-fit the program and/or workshop experience that is right for your school or organization. From 1/2-day to full-day to 3-day to week-long, we can build a program that fits your educational needs.
THE HOLOCAUST TEST
THE HOLOCAUST TEST is a survey-driven, hands-on educational experience that diagnoses and quantifies the knowledge level of college-age audiences in real time, identifying need while generating interest in learning about the Holocaust. This program employs SMS technology to survey college audiences’ knowledge base in real time and displays results at the end of each session to benchmark performance and evaluate audience knowledge levels.
An Overview of the Holocaust from a Critical Perspective
“Overview” is a 240-slide PowerPoint presentation with break-out sessions designed to generate small group analysis and discussion. It is available in ½-day, full-day, 3-day or can be custom-fit to almost any format, to include a semester-long course. It has been used effectively in webinar presentation format on an international scale and is appropriate for both student and faculty audiences.
Ethnic Intolerance and the Holocaust
Nazi racists had always viewed the mentally and physically disabled as blemishes upon the genetic landscape of the so-called master race and, insofar as they were capable of conceiving children, as a biological danger to the purity of the German Aryan “race.” After careful planning and data collection during the summer and autumn of 1939, German physicians murdered people with mental and physical disabilities or illnesses who resided in institutions throughout Germany. The Nazi leadership and the German health care community euphemistically referred to the series of operations aimed at the physical annihilation of the so-called unfit as "euthanasia".
Survivors & Rescuers:
Together A Safe Community
There were as many ways of surviving human history's most infamous genocidal event as there were survivors. Each survivor found his or her own way to survive the existential brutality surrounding them. Some through cunning, some through the falsification of identity and the effective proliferation of lies, some empowered by the hope of seeing family again, and all through tenacious perseverance marked by sheer unwillingness to give in to the evil around them.
Hearing how survivors of the Holocaust negotiated their way through the living hell of Nazi hatred and intolerance can be a source of great encouragement to students who are bullied in school. Hearing stories of rescuers can give them hope of courageous support.
The purpose of "Survivors & Rescuers" is not necessarily to provide training to ward off bullying... but to inspire hope.
Helen Levinson
Rena Finder
(Schindler's List)
Christian Antisemitism and the Holocaust
The charge of deicide has shaped the Christian conception of Jews and marked them as the Other. History has shown that, for Christians, no charge was too outrageous to levy upon Jews. Nowhere was this more clearly expressed than in Nazi Germany, its allied European states, and occupied territories. Compounded by racial science, Christian antisemitism, never benign, turned lethal and led to the near eradication of Europe’s Jews. Postwar reactions against the Nazi crimes may have made antisemitism much less socially and politically acceptable, but it hardly disappeared.
Defiant Requiem
The Power of the Human Spirit to Create Art and Beauty in the Midst of Darkness
Defiant Requiem tells the remarkable story of Rafael Schächter, a brilliant young and passionate Czech opera-choral conductor who was arrested and sent to the concentration camp of Theresienstadt (Terezin) in 1941. Under the most brutal of circumstances, and determined to sustain dignity, humanity, and hope within his fellow prisoners, he recruited 150 prisoners and taught them Verdi’s Requiem by rote in a dank cellar using a smuggled score, after grueling days of forced labor. They performed on 16 occasions for fellow prisoners, with the last, performance on June 23, 1944, in front of high-ranking SS officers from Berlin and the International Red Cross to support the charade that the prisoners were well treated and flourishing. In 2012 I met Edgar Krasa, Schächter's cell-mate and a member of the Requiem chorus. This remembrance is dedicated to Edgar's memory, the memory of Rafael Schächter and that of those courageous inmates who dared sing to their tormentors what they could not speak to them. And to Murray Sidlin for bringing this story back to life.
Edgar Krasa
1924-2017
This presentation inspires by demonstrating the power of the human spirit to transcend evil through the power of music.
"This was not the world with the Nazis, this was our world."