TeacherEisenhower and the Righteous Cause: The Liberation of Europe Abilene, Kansas

TEACHER WORKSHOP 2010, June 7 - 11

Eisenhower and the Righteous Cause: The Liberation of Europe Abilene, Kansas


The workshop explores the Holocaust with a special focus on liberation and aftermath, including the displaced persons camps, the creation of Israel, and the Nuremberg Trials. Eyewitness accounts will bring the liberation of the camps alive and put a human face on the difficulty of life in the DP camps.

Following the workshop, participants are invited to engage in a week of primary research in the archives of the Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum for the purpose of researching and developing a lesson plan or project, richly integrated with primary source material.

Presented by the Eisenhower Presidential Library & Museum, Abilene, Kansas, and the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, Overland Park, Kansas, in partnership with the Lowell Milken Center, Fort Scott, Kansas, and the Harry S. Truman Library & Museum, Independence, Missouri

Registration cost is $100. The deadline for enrollment is May 7, 2010.
Enrollment is limited to the first 35 persons who apply. Up to six hours of graduate credit is available for participants who are interested.
Questions: kim.barbieri@nara.gov

For more Information and Registration form:
http://www.eisenhower.archives.gov/Teacher_Workshop_2010/Workshop.html