Michigan Summer Seminar
on Holocaust Education:
An Interdiscplinary Inquiry
on Teaching the Holocaust
Monday, July 9 through Saturday, July 14
Studying, Learning & Teaching:
Critical Lessons in Holocaust Education
The Michigan Summer Seminar on Holocaust Education will ask teachers to assume the dual role of student and teacher during the week-long seminar. Participants will deepen Holocaust and genocide content knowledge, while also exploring and sharing teaching strategies that meet the 2016 Michigan mandate on genocide and Holocaust education and have long-lasting impacton students.
The program offers the following areas of focus and experience:
- Testimony from Holocaust survivors
- Presentations by content specialists on a comprehensive range of topics
- Work with primary documents and teaching resource materials
- Immersion into the pedagogy of genocide, antisemitism, and social justice
- Use of media and literacy tools and skills in presenting historical fact, context, and relevance
- Sessions held at a world-class Holocaust museum
- Professional collaboration with colleagues from across Michigan
- Opportunity for inquiry, instructional design, connection, and reflection
- Held at the Holocaust Memorial Center Zekelman Family Campus in Farmington Hills
- Lodging provided at the new Hampton Inn West Bloomfield/Southfield
- $125 per participant includes lodging, breakfast, lunches, and SCECHs
- All participants will become members of the statewide network of Holocaust educators for ongoing collaboration and sharing of teaching and learning resources and strategies.
- View the seminar flyer here
- Apply Today at https://www.toli.us/satellite-program/michigan/
The True Wartime Escape
of Margret & H.A. Rey
On view April 11 through July 5, 2018
Curious George was able to go off on his adventures thanks to the fascinating, harrowing and largely unknown wartime escape from the Nazis by German-born Jews, Margret and H.A. Rey, who created Curious George.
The Curious George books are beloved by children of all ages around the globe with George’s stories translated into many languages, including Afrikaans, Chinese, Danish, French, German, Japanese, Portuguese and Swedish.
Author Louise Borden, an award-winning children’s book author, heard about the Reys’ escape from the Nazi invasion and “just like the Reys’ famous little monkey,” Borden was curious. She was “intrigued by the story of Margret and H.A. Rey’s flight from Paris on bicycle in June 1940.”
Over the course of several years, Borden spoke, wrote and emailed with people in England, France, Germany and Portugal who had known Margret and H.A. Rey. Borden traveled to many small towns and cities based upon the addresses found in letters and work diaries the Reys’ wrote in 1936 to 1940 when they lived in Paris.
Borden’s research culminated in her book The Journey that Saved Curious George which inspired the exhibit.
The exhibit features photographs of the Reys, illustrations by Allan Drummond, and several keepsakes, including H.A.’s copious notes in his pocket diary detailing their four-month wartime escape from Paris to New York. It also highlights several amazing artifacts from the Holocaust Memorial Center’s archives and Detroit area survivors.
H.A. and Margret arrived in New York on October 14, 1940. The following year, Curious George, formerly named Fifi, was published. H.A. and Margret became U.S. citizens in 1946.
Join us for one of the exciting programs featuring The True Wartime Escape exhibit! Learn more about these opportunities, admission, and RSVP, by CLICKING HERE.
The exhibit is open Sunday through Friday and is free with museum admission or membership. For more information about the exhibit, please call 248-553-2400.
The exhibit is recommended for ages 12 and older.
Thank you to our exhibit supporters!
Janice & Chris Billmeyer
Robin & Leo Eisenberg
Rozie & Bernie Friedman
Nancy & James Grosfeld
Raina Ernstoff & Sanford Hansell
The Karp Family
Jackie & Larry Kraft
Henrietta Weisberg z"l
Michigan Council for the Arts and Cultural Affairs
National Endowment for the Arts
What Could Have Been
What could these people have become? What could they have accomplished? Invented? Or simply celebrated? We will never know. But, we know what we can do now. Tell the world about them and educate every generation about the horrors of genocide.
Support the Holocaust Memorial Center today.
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