MEDIA
Recent online articles and other items of interest about the Holocaust Educators Network
• About our participants, our faculty, and their classrooms:
"Teacher Has Unique Opportunity," article in the Glasgow Daily Times about participant Casi Owens ('09), of Glasgow Middle School, KY:
www.glasgowdailytimes.com/archivesearch/local_story_153120453.html
"Reading, Writing, and Teaching the Holocaust: Cultivating the Humanitarian Hope Amidst Tales of Catastrophe," with text and photographs by Danielle Friesen-Bethune ('08) of Nebraska:
www.unl.edu/newp/news/2009/TeachingHolocaust3.shtml
Visit the blog of the 2008 summer seminar created by participant Larry Neuberger, Miller High School, MO:
holocausteducation.blogspot.com/
"Holocaust history brings rural educators to tears." Article about the summer seminar in
The Riverdale press online:
www.riverdalepress.com/atf.php?sid=5218¤t_edition=2008-07-17
"Understanding the Holocaust: Two Ozarks instructors want to give students insight into tragedy." Article in the
News-Leader.com, Springfield, MO, chronicles the efforts of 2008 seminar participants Larry Neuberger and Thomas Maerke to continue their work through their involvement in the Ozarks Writing Project:
www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080913/NEWS04/809130370/1007/NEWS01
Poet and child of survivors John Guzlowski describes his visit to the classroom of Narci Drossos ('07) in Valdosta, GA:
http://lightning-and-ashes.blogspot.com/
Narci Drossos ('07) receives 2008 Distinguished Educator Award from the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust:
gocats.org/news/VHS/holocaust.htm
• About our speakers:
"Young Heirs Carry Holocaust's Torch," article on Irving Roth at
Newsday.com:
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longislandlife/ny-lfcov0330,0,7439182.story
| Portrait boxes created by rural teachers in the summer seminar |
"McCool kids turn despair to hope."
Article about the work of Danielle Bethune ('08) and her Holocaust Literature course in the
Nebraska York-Times.
www.yorknewstimes.com/news/x1196580684/Christmas-sunflowers
More to come...