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Educational Outreach Programs (EOP)
Who? This one-day conference designed for secondary high school teachers and mature high school students—preferably with previous class time related to Holocaust history or literature—turns its attention to child survivors of the Holocaust. Teachers may choose to use the conference as a professional day or bring up to four students each. Program Content: The Holocaust through the Eyes of a Child focuses on three child survivors of the Holocaust whose amazing lives illuminate the successive phases of this dark time with gripping authenticity. Professor Hal Marienthal tells the chilling story of a boy alone in the gathering whirlwind. He testifies to the kindness and bravery of some Germans in defying the determined Reich bureaucracy; with their help, he barely escaped to America in 1937. Professor Nelly Toll, an author and child artist, documents 13 months in hiding with her mother in her home town in Poland during the Nazi occupation from 1943-44. There, Toll read, wrote in her journal of “the familiar, grim sequence of terror and destruction” and painted delicate pictures that reflect her yearning for a normal childhood. Philip Bialowitz, then a teenager, is one of just seven remaining survivors of Sobibor, the only death camp where inmates, against all odds, were able to rebel and escape. Their presentations will be preceded by an historical overview of the Holocaust by history professor and award winning teacher Professor Michael Bess of Vanderbilt University. This conference is offered free of charge to teachers and their students in Tennessee. Parking will be provided on campus to participants. The only out-of-pocket expense will be lunch, available in Vanderbilt’s Rand Dining Hall. For registration information call or contact the Tennessee Holocaust Commission, 2417 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN 37240, telephone 615-343-1171; e-mail stacey.l.knight@vanderbilt.edu
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