Welcome to the Holocaust Educator Network of Michigan online space for pre-seminar dialogue and (later) a discussion of the book The World Must Know, by Michael Berenbaum, one of our shared seminar textbooks.

Please take a moment to begin the dialogue by introducing yourself to other members of the 2019 seminar group by sharing the following information (and anything else you care to share):

-Who you are and where and what you teach?

-What do you hope to experience/get from a week-long program on Holocaust education?

-Anything you care to share that will help us get to know you a little bit.

John and I believe, and this comes out of our training (and resources like Facing History & Ourselves), that studying the Holocaust is most powerful when it is connected to a consideration of identity. We will ask and explore questions of identity this summer, such as "who were these Jewish individuals and communities across Europe who were targeted for genocide?", and "who were these individuals and groups of people who perpetrated these events?", and others.

But the starting point is actually with our own identity: who are we, as people and professionals, and how does who we are shape and inform the ways in which we explore the identity questions at the center of any study of the Holocaust and genocide.