Educator Workshops
The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies supports educators through workshops and seminars facilitated by leading experts in Holocaust and genocide education. Through these workshops, we develop and distribute a myriad of resources for teaching age-appropriate lessons about the Holocaust and genocide.
Below is the information for our upcoming workshop:
The Holocaust by Bullets
with Yahad in Unum
Summer 2025 Workshop
(All times are Central)
Most students learn about the concentration and death camps of the Holocaust – Auschwitz, Bergen-Belsen, Dachau, etc. Few are aware that more than half of the six million Jewish and countless non-Jewish victims targeted during the Holocaust were murdered in fields, forests and ravines in the former Soviet Union and other countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Many of these sites remain unknown, unmarked, and unrecorded to this day. This workshop will run Thursday, July 10 and Friday, July 11 on the University of Minnesota campus. Parking and meals will be provided. During this two-day workshop facilitated by Yahad in Unum educators, you will:
Register here by June 15 |
DAY 1 - Thursday, July 10 | |
9:00- 9:40am |
Introduction: General presentation about the work of Yahad - In Unum, founded by Father Patrick Desbois
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9:40 - 9:50am | Break |
9:50 - 11:20am | Jewish communities in the former Soviet Union |
11:20 - 11:30am | Break |
11:30-12:30pm | Holocaust by bullets: historical overview and steps of the crime. Part 1 |
12:30 - 1:15pm | Lunch |
1:15 - 2:15pm | Holocaust by bullets: historical overview and steps of the crime. Part 2 |
2:15 - 2:25pm | Break |
2:25 - 3:30pm | Roma genocide in the former Soviet Union. Other victims of the Nazi killing units in the Soviet Union |
3:30 - 3:45pm | Break |
3:45 - 5:30pm |
How to investigate an 80-year old crime? Yahad - In Unum methodology of investigation. In Evidence, an interactive map of the killing sites
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DAY 2 - Friday, July 11 | |
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8:30 - 10:00am |
Educational tools: Study Guides for Educators
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10:00 - 10:15am | Break |
10:15 - 11:45am | How to use Yahad – In Unum’s investigative tools in the classroom? A case study |
11:45 - 12:30pm | Lunch |
12:30 - 1:45pm | Aid and rescue of Jews in the occupied Soviet territories. Motivations of the perpetrators |
1:45 - 2:00pm | Break |
2:00 - 3:45pm | Other genocides investigated by Yahad - In Unum: Massacres of the Mayan populations in Guatemala and the Yazidi genocide |
3:45 - 4:00pm | Break |
4:00 - 5:00pm | Closing discussion: relevance of Holocaust education today |
For educational resources, please see our Holocaust and Genocide Education pages.
—Participant in "The Holocaust in European Memory" summer institute
—Participant in "Genocide in Africa: Darfur and Rwanda" summer institute