Fall 2014 Baeumler Kaplan Events
Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today
Filmmaker Sandra Schulberg will present the film "Nuremberg: Its Lesson for Today". Sunday, November 9 at 1 p.m. in the UMD Weber Music Hall, Continuing Legal Education credits will be available. This event is sponsored by the Baeumler Kaplan Holocaust Commemoration Committee.
Dr. Deborah Petersen-Perlman will present "Holocaust Memorials: Marketing, Commemoration or Both?" Thursday, November 6 at noon in the UMD Library Rotunda. This event is part of the Martha B. Alworth International Brown Bag Series and is co-sponsored by the Baeumler Kaplan Holocaust Commemoration Committee.
Dr. Alexis Pogorelskin will make a presentation on "Kristallnacht, the Night of the Broken Glass: the Beginning of the Holocaust". Friday, November 7 at noon in the UMD Library Rotunda. This event is sponsored by the Baeumler Kaplan Holocaust Commemoration Committee
All events are free and open to the public.
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T e a c h i n g t h e H o l o c a u s t : A T h r e e Pa r t S e r i e s (Gr a d e s K-12)
March 18, 19 and 20 6:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., Griggs Conference Center, UMD Campus
Credit: 2 hours per evening Fee: Free
Presenters: Mary Anderson-Petroske, Vice Principal, Northern Lights School/Superior, Wisconsin;
Deborah Petersen-Perlman, Associate Professor/Communication, UMD and other members of the Baeumler Kaplan Holocaust Commemoration Committee
Course description--These three workshops will equip participants with tools, resources and discussion themes for educating young people on the Holocaust.
1. Teaching the Holocaust: Superior educator Mary Anderson-Petroske will share strategies for introducing the Holocaust to students in grades 5-12. Anderson-Petroske will guide participants in Stages of the Holocaust, Building Background Knowledge, How the Holocaust Could Happen, What to Emphasize, and Extended Thinking and Learning Activities.
2. Selecting Literature of the Holocaust for students in grades 5-12: Members of UMD's Baeumler
Kaplan Holcaust Commemoration Committee will offer guidelines for selecting and evaluating literature
for students based on developmental psychology, history and critical assessments. Participants will
engage in a hands-on assessment of books aimed at different age and grade levels.
3. Teaching Anne Frank: Members of UMD's Baeumler Kaplan Holocaust Commemoration Committee
will guide participants through the various controversies associated with Anne's story and diary, as
well as the various options for presenting the context of Anne's life and death and what that means for
the youth of today.
Sponsored by: Arrowhead Reading Council
ISD 709 teachers can register through News and Views. Others may register by contacting Betsy Rosenzweig at Betsy.Rosenzweig@duluth.k12.mn.us.
Registrations are due by Friday, March 14.
April 17th 12:00 p.m. (noon) in the UMD Library 4th Floor Rotunda
“My Jewish Journey” Presented by Dr. Deborah Petersen-Perlman, Associate Professor of Communication, UMD
In October 2013, Dr. Petersen-Perlman, traveled to the Netherlands and Germany to explore a number of Holocaust and Jewish related sites. Among the focal points were the Anne Frank House, the small town of Elburg in northeastern Netherlands, as well as the New Synagogue and the Portuguese Synagogue in Amsterdam. Traveling on to Germany she visited a small Synagogue and cemetery in Schlusselfeld before heading to Weimar, Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen. This was a very personal experience for Petersen-Perlman. Walking the paths of those whose lives were destroyed by the Nazis she offers a significant perspective on what their lived experiences must have been. (Co-sponsored by the Baeumler Kaplan Holocaust Commemoration Committee)
April 17 6:30-9:30 p.m., Bohannon 90, UMD Campus.
Film Screening and post-film discussion of "The Devil's Arithmetic"
This made for TV movie (1999) based on Jane Yolen's novel by the same name, tells the story of a modern young Jewish teenager, Hannah Stern. Forced to go to the Passover Seder, Hannah unexpectedly finds herself in a small Polish village during World War II. After a brief "getting to know you" encounter with her relatives, Hannah and her relations are sent to a Nazi concentration camp. Hannah learns important lessons about tradition and culture which becomes critically important to her entire family.
April 23 4:00-6:00 p.m. Chem 200, UMD Campus.
The Baeumler Kaplan Holocaust Commemoration Committee is proud to present renown children's book author, Jane Yolen. Ms. Yolen will speak on the topic of "Writing about the Holocaust for Children". A prolific author (she has well over 300 books in print), she has been dubbed both the Hans Christian Andersen of America and the Aesop of the twentieth century. Yolen has won numerous awards and she has been given six honorary doctorates in literature.
All events are free and open to the public.
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