Thank you Mills Meyers Swartling Attorneys for sponsoring the Holocaust Center's community program and teacher training on January 17th and 18th at the Museum of Flight!
International Holocaust Remembrance Day Program*
The Bombing of Auschwitz
January 17, 2013 | 6:30pm - 8:30pm | Museum of Flight, Seattle
Free and open to the public. RSVP
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. RSVP
*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.
Creating Change: Teaching about the Holocaust & Genocide
January 18, 2013 | 8:00am - 4:00pm | Museum of Flight, Seattle
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 commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, in partnership with the Museum of Flight.
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