International Holocaust Remembrance Day* Programs January 17-18, 2013
Creating Change: Teaching about the Holocaust <http://www.wsherc.org/news/news.aspx> & Genocide January 18, 2013 | 8:00am - 4:00pm | Museum of Flight, Seattle Register Now <http://www.wsherc.org/news/registrationform.aspx> Sessions include: an overview of the Holocaust; analyzing photographs: perpetrators, bystanders, victims, and upstanders; rescue and resistance; an introduction to genocide. Participants will also have the opportunity to take a docent-led tour of the Museum of Flight's Personal Courage wing (which highlights World War II). $20 registration fee - lunch and clock hours included. Presented in in partnership with the Museum of Flight. Flyer <http://www.wsherc.org/PDF/HolocaustSeminar_Jan182013.pdf> The Bombing of Auschwitz <http://www.wsherc.org/news/news.aspx> January 17, 2013 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm | Museum of Flight, Seattle Free and open to the public. RSVP <mailto:ila...@wsherc.org?subject=RSVP%20Jan%2017%20%22Bombing%20of%20Auschw itz%22> Why didn't the Allies bomb Auschwitz? Robert Herschkowitz, historian, Boeing engineer, retired Naval Commander, and Holocaust survivor, will discuss one of the most debated questions of World War II. Sponsored by the Holocaust Center and the Museum of Flight. Flyer <http://www.wsherc.org/PDF/BombingAuschFlyer_1-17-13.pdf> We hope you can join us! *In 2005, the United Nations designated January 27th - the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 1945 - as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In the spring the world also commemorates the Holocaust with Holocaust Remembrance Day, or Yom Hashoah in Hebrew. This year Holocaust Remembrance Day falls on April 8, 2013. Ilana Cone Kennedy Director of Education Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center ila...@wsherc.org | 206-774-2201 | www.wsherc.org <https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Washington-State-Holocaust-Education-Reso urce-Center/140140310737> <https://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Washington-State-Holocaust-Education-Reso urce-Center/140140310737> Like us on Facebook!
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