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Holocaust Awareness Week Schedule

University of Colorado at Boulder
University Memorial Center Room 235
Boulder, CO 80301

Wednesday, March 10

11:00AM
Doris Small
Holocaust Survivor

1:00 PM
Mr. and Mrs. Zachary Kutner
Holocaust Survivor

2:30 PM
Stephen Feinberg
Director of International Holocaust Education at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC

Stephen Feinberg is the Special Assistant for Education Programs at the National Institute of Holocaust Education at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is responsible for coordinating all teacher educational forums and multi-day workshops for both public and private school educators. In addition, he oversees the Museum’s international teacher training through the work of the International Task Force on Holocaust Education, Research, and Remembrance. From 2000 to 2008, he served as the Director of the National Outreach for Teachers Initiatives program where he was responsible for the creation, design, and implementation of the educational outreach program of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. From 1996 to 2000, he was the Coordinator of the Museum Teacher Fellowship Program at the Museum.

Mr. Feinberg joined the Museum’s staff in Washington in 1996, but he had been an educational consultant for the Education Division since 1991. A former Peace Corps volunteer in both Morocco and Thailand and a Social Studies teacher and supervisor in both public and private secondary schools in the United States and Europe, he has developed curricula in the areas of Holocaust education and American constitutional history. He is the co-editor of Teaching and Studying The Holocaust (Allyn & Bacon, 2000) and he was also the co-editor of the October 1995 special edition of Social Education on “Teaching About The Holocaust.” Mr. Feinberg received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, and his master’s degree from Harvard University.

7:00 PM
Movie: Blessed is the Match
Followed by Q&A and talk by director Roberta Grossman

Narrated by three-time Academy Award nominee Joan Allen, Blessed Is the Match is the first documentary feature about Hannah Senesh, the World War II-era poet and diarist who became a paratrooper. Safe in Palestine in 1944, Hannah joined a mission to rescue Jews in her native Hungary. Shockingly, it was the only military rescue mission for Jews during the Holocaust. Hannah parachuted behind enemy lines, was captured, tortured and ultimately executed by the Nazis. Incredibly, her mother Catherine witnessed the entire ordeal - first as a prisoner with Hannah and later as her advocate, braving the bombed-out streets of Budapest in a desperate attempt to save her daughter.

Thursday, March 11

11:00AM
Ella Mendel
Holocaust Survivor from Aushwitz

Born in 1926 in a small city outside of Lodz, Poland, Ella Mandel was not raised extremely Jewish, but rather she was raised relatively reformed. She was the 2nd youngest of 4 sisters.  Before the war broke out she remembers always having to board up her windows during Christmas and Easter because the non-Jews in the neighborhood would stone her house. When the Nazis stormed into her town, she was taken and sent to Auschwitz. She was then sent to several different camps, and eventually was liberated from Birkenau. She lost her hearing during the war due to typhoid fever, but her best friend snuck her medication. Once liberated, she learned she was the only member of her family that survived. She was held in a DP camp until her and her husband went to Minnesota to start a new life.

1:00 PM
Eric Cahn
Holocaust Survivor