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Intensity and Integrity: The 2016

Max M. Kaplan Summer Institute

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WINTER 2016 5

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Holocaust 101 with Dr. Mary Johnson, Facing History and Ourselves.

The Max M. Kaplan Summer Institute was a success in 2016,

including our second “Holocaust Education 101” session on the

first day of the week. The intent of this additional programming,

extending the typical four-day institute, is to introduce those new

to Holocaust education to the framework for teaching the subject.

Forty educators participated this year, including three teachers from

Romania. The Gerald S. Kaplan Endowment Lecture was presented

by Professor Lawrence R. Douglas, James J. Grosfeld Professor

of Law, Jurisprudence and Social Thought at Amherst College. He

spoke about justice as it is understood after the Holocaust. The

following reflections from participants illuminate their experiences:

For returning participants, what led you to attend the

program this year?

There are always amazing speakers who challenge me intellectually;

I also appreciate the resources, connections, and networking

opportunities provided.

For new participants, what motivated you to apply to this

program?

Being a family with other educators. I heard this would happen, and

it did.

The moving and transformative experience I was provided during

the Warren Fellowship. I am glad to have attended this amazing

program.

How did the Max M. Kaplan Summer Institute affect your

thinking?

How did it not? I found myself continually circling back to stories,

people, cultures and experiences that are different than me.

This was the closest experience I have had to graduate school.

Learning is addictive and this is high quality. I am encouraged to

spend more time on context and theory before introducing specific

facts.

Thank you for this opportunity. I am a better person and educator

because of it. I have learned a host of new ways to explain and

explore the Holocaust, genocide and current conflicts. This was an

amazing week.

I’m even more focused on teaching the importance of the individual

to history. Thank you for making me a better teacher.

This was an intellectually and pedagogically enriching experience.

My knowledge has deepened. It is always a moving, inspiring, and

motivating learning experience. I will be back next year!

This being my first Summer Institute, I was welcomed with open

arms and directions.

HMH always presents the best seminars! They are very thoughtful

and welcoming; the heart beat of this fine institution. Thanks to all

involved in planning, teaching and funding.

The Education Depart and HMH thank our loyal donors: the

Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany; the

Max M. Kaplan Teacher Education Endowment Fund; the Gerald

S. Kaplan Endowment Fund; and the Anna & Emil Steinberger

Scholarship for Teacher Education Endowment Fund.

Curatorial

Department

From interactive learning to preservation of oral history artifacts and

extending the Museum’s reach across the world, the HMH Curatorial

Department achieved several milestones in 2016.

The digitization of HMH’s Oral Testimonies at the Shoah Foundation

reached a major goal in 2016 with the completion of the digitization

of the tapes in the collection. We are now undergoing the next phase

– indexing. To date, 225 digital video files have been indexed. We

anticipate completion of indexing by the end of 2016. We expect our

testimonies to be “live” on Shoah’s Visual History Archive (VHA) by

February, 2017!

Several items from HMH’s

Permanent Collection will be

on exhibit at the Bullock Texas

State History Museum in Austin.

The Bullock Museum is hosting

the United States Holocaust

Memorial Museum’s traveling

exhibition, “State of Deception:

The Power of Nazi Propaganda”

through January 9, 2017.

Museum officials approached

HMH requesting materials that

could enhance the Bullock’s

interpretation of the exhibition.

Our contributions will challenge

visitors to actively question,

analyze and explore the long-

term effects of propaganda.

The Destroyed Communities

interactive learning center reached

a milestone on September 23, 2016.

The database now offers access

to 40 communities, 101 survivors

and more than 460 photographs.

Utilizing the touchscreen on

display in the Boniuk Library, visitors may now learn about the history

of each community displayed on the HMH Memorial Slope, view

photos of life before the Holocaust, and read Survivor stories.

Members and guests will recall HMH’s medical ethics exhibition

“How Healing Becomes Killing” on display in the Mincberg Gallery

in 2007. We are excited to announce that a portion of the exhibition

will be on permanent display at The Central Museum of Medicine of

Ukraine in Kiev. The project could not have been realized without

the contribution of Dr. Sheldon Rubenfeld, founder of the Center for

Medicine after The Holocaust (CMATH) in Houston. Please contact

Carol Manley, HMH Curator for more information.

Max M. Kaplan Summer Institute, Group 2016.

Excited conversation,

Chaz Z.

Elie Wiesel reading, Day 1.

At work.

Rosine Chappell with Romanian educators.

Alexandra Zapruder.

From the Permanent

Collection of Holocaust

Museum Houston; 2011.3.28,

“If International Finance Jewry

should succeed once more in

plunging the peoples into a

world war, the result will not be

the victory of Jewry, but rather

the destruction of the Jewish

race in Europe. Adolf Hitler.”