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Holocaust Educators Receive Lerner Fellowships

The teachers – middle, high school, and college educators – were brought together by The Olga Lengyel Institute for Holocaust Studies and Human Rights.

The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous provides educators with instruction on teaching Holocaust education to their students.
The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous provides educators with instruction on teaching Holocaust education to their students.

The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR) selected 22 middle and high school teachers and Holocaust center staff from eight states and Poland as 2024 Alfred Lerner Fellows. The group participated in the JFR’s Summer Institute for Teachers, an intensive five-day course, delving into the complex history of the Holocaust and discussing new teaching techniques for introducing the subject of the Holocaust into their classrooms.

The seminar is designed to allow participants to meet in small groups following each lecture, address the specific aspect of the Holocaust that is presented, share teaching concepts and develop approaches for introducing the subject matter to their students.

The 2024 Lerner Fellows are:

* Robin Cook from Cullman High School in Cullman, Ala.
* Anne Franzen from The Chadwick School in La Canada, Calif.
* Christine Giles-Lefkowitz from Palm Beach Central High School in Wellington, Fla.
* Darrell Schwartz from William T. Dwyer High School in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla.
* Lisa Brown from Lake Worth High School in Lake Worth, Fla.
* Mary Ellen Richichi from Independence Middle School in Jupiter, Fla.
* Sheri Crowley from Polo Park Middle School in Wellington, Fla.
* Lauren Crampton from Holocaust Education Resource Council in Tallahassee, Fla.
* Judy Schancupp from Georgia Commission on the Holocaust in Sandy Springs, Ga.
* Brianna Doherty from New Jersey’s Department of Education Commission on Holocaust Education in Trenton, N.J.
* Cara Thapa from Kean University in Union, N.J.
* Keith Laviola from Forrestdale Middle School in Rumson, N.J.
* Brittany Pavely from the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center in Cincinnati, Ohio
* Erin Durstock from the Nancy & David Wolf Holocaust & Humanity Center in Cincinnati, Ohio
* Michele Russo from Seneca Valley Intermediate School in Harmony, Penn.
* Rebecca Baverso from St. Bede School in Pittsburgh, Penn.
* William Penderghest from Abington Senior High School in Abington, Penn.
* Heather Brougham-Cook from Cross Schools in Bluffton, S.C.
* Riane (Alli) Ott from EL Wright Middle School in Columbia, S.C.
* Haley Hewitt from Klein Cain High School in Klein, Texas
* Kenneth Taylor from Holocaust Museum Houston in Houston, Texas
* Kinga Senczyk from POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland

 

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