2024 October REN/IMESD Professional Development Summit

High school and middle school teachers participate in a hands-on workshop where they explore documents from the Ringleblum archive. Emmanuel Ringleblum, a Jewish historian, organized a secret society in the Warsaw Ghetto that recorded first-hand accounts of Nazi atrocities. The documents were hidden in the ground and unearthed after WWII. Andrew Duden, Head of Student Programs at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust (OJMCHE), will lead teachers in a workshop that draws upon actual documents now housed at the Jewish Historical Institute in Warsaw, Poland. He also will provide curriculum materials so that teachers can replicate the workshop activities with students.