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The National Institute for Holocaust Education of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is pleased to announce that the USHMM Teacher Fellowship Program will resume in 2010-11. This year’s applications are open to secondary school teachers and full-time faculty from community colleges. From July 11-16, 2010, the Museum will host up to 15 successful applicants in Washington, DC, to begin what has been a career and life-changing experience for nearly 250 secondary teachers since 1996. Those selected spend a week at the Museum working with staff historians, archivists, and educators and return the following summer for a three-day follow up conference. The program is fully funded through donations to the Museum, and includes travel expenses, teaching resources, and a generous stipend for books from the Museum Shop.

The Teacher Fellowship continues to impact the teaching of the Holocaust across the country and even around the world. On September 25, Teacher Fellow Matt Rozell of Hudson Falls, NY, was named ABC News Person of the Week for his project that reunited survivors with their liberators. In October ten Museum Teacher Fellows represented the United States as guests of the Polish government for a weeklong educational exchange in Warsaw and Krakow. Teacher Fellow Cathleen Cadigan fromTexas, was recently named one of 8 outstanding educators, by the College Board. These dramatic stories are but the tip of the iceberg. Teacher Fellows continue to lead the Museum’s effort to ensure quality Holocaust education in America’s secondary schools through educational outreach in their regions.

I encourage you to apply for the Teacher Fellowship Program to become a leader in Holocaust education. Information and a downloadable application are available online.

Please contact Peter Fredlake (pfredlake@ushmm.org, 202-314-0352) if you have any questions about the Museum Teacher Fellowship Program.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
National Institute for Holocaust Education
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington DC 20024-2126
Cell 202.302.3570 Fax 202.314.7888
www.ushmm.org

As part of our ongoing efforts to teach audiences that preventing and responding to genocide is one of the most compelling ways individuals can choose to act today, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial museum opened a new interactive installation From Memory to Action: Meeting the Challenge of Genocide. Using innovative technology and compelling eyewitness testimony, the exhibit introduces visitors to genocide today and asks them to respond to the question: “What will you do to meet the challenge of genocide?”

We are very excited about the new installation and the accompanying website, where you can access conflict backgrounds and current situation reports; galleries of photographs, videos, and first-hand testimonies from eyewitnesses to the Holocaust, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Sudan; resources to help you take action; and a pledge wall where you can see how others have responded to the challenge and make your own commitment. Best of all, each piece of content can be saved to a personal online account, as well as shared with students, friends, family, and colleagues.

To stay updated about new content and resources, sign up for our monthly genocide prevention e-newsletter here. The full press release announcing the installation’s opening is available here.

For further information please contact

Peter J Fredlake

Director, National Outreach for Teacher Initiatives

202.314.0352

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
National Institute for Holocaust Education
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW Washington DC 20024-2126
Cell 202.302.3570 Fax 202.314.7888
www.ushmm.org