(COLUMBIA, SC) Two Hungarian school teachers will join 18 South Carolina teachers in a graduate-level workshop at Columbia College on "The Teaching of the Holocaust" July 19-23.
Szilvia Dittel of Budapest and Lajosne "Maria" Toth of Miskolc were nominated for participation by the Task Force for International Cooperation on Holocaust Education, Remembrance, and Research, which has placed 30 Eastern European teachers in U.S. Holocaust education centers this summer. (During the years of Soviet domination, Communist textbooks ommitted information on the Holocaust.)
After Dittel and Toth complete their studies at Columbia College, they will be in residence at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C., as guests of the museum.
The Columbia College course, which has been taught every summer since 1995, is an intensive examination of the Holocaust, utilizing a wide variety of teaching strategies. The course is team-taught by Dr. Mary Johnson of Brookline, MA; Dr. Tandy McConnell and Dr. Selden Smith of Columbia College; Margaret Walden of Richland School District Two; and James Bryan of the State Department of Education.
Holocaust survivors Rudy Herz of Socastee, S.C., Barbara Rosenberg of Columbia, Pincus Kolender and Joe Engel of Charleston, and Tom Grossman of Florence will spend hours of dialogue with the group, as will Henry Goldberg, the son of Polish survivors, and liberators Bob Turner of Cayce and Moffatt Burriss and Ed Roper of Columbia.
The S.C. Council on the Holocaust subsidizes the Holocaust workshop in the belief that such instruction will enrich classroom learning and assist students in facing issues of individual and civic responsibility, citizenship, violence, racism, and prejudice.
For more information, contact Barbara Parker, 803.786.3785 or bparker@colacoll.edu.
