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Ransom Teacher Receives Holocaust Education Fellowship
July 1, 2018
Ransom Middle School teacher Lauren Samoszenko was recently selected as one of 29 Holocaust educators from 12 states, Croatia and Poland, as a 2018 Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR) Alfred Lerner Fellow.
As a newly minted fellow, Samoszenko took part in the JFR’s Summer Institute, an intensive five-day course for Holocaust educators held at Columbia University last week. She was able to explore the complex history of the Holocaust as well as discuss new teaching techniques for introducing the subject of the Holocaust into her classroom.
Teachers selected for the program must be English or social studies teachers at the middle or high school level, have taught at least five years, are at least five years from retirement and currently teach the Holocaust in their classroom.
Participants each come from a region of the country where the JFR operates Holocaust Centers of Excellence in conjunction with a local Holocaust museum or center. International educators were first invited to join the seminar in 2001 at the request of the U.S. State Department. Samoszenko was nominated by the Gulf Coast Center for Holocaust and Human Rights Education.
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3 Responses to “Ransom Teacher Receives Holocaust Education Fellowship”
We certainly need to develop a strong accurate knowledge of history. One thing about history too many people are ignorant to historical facts. Watching flicks that Hollywood puts out isn’t your best source of historical information. As far as Germany goes, they will be more involved with internal problems to be much of a world threat.
Congratulations, Lauren Samoszenko! You are an asset to education and our children. The subject of the Holocaust should be introduced and taught to every student, just as ‘American vs Communism’ was a high school requirement in Florida back in the 70’s – 90’s. Ransom Middle School is lucky to have you on staff.
This is great! The majority of young adults don’t know what the Holocaust was. There is even a movement which says it didn’t happen.
If there is one thing we learn from history, It’s that we don’t learn from history.
Winston Churchill wrote four Volumes on Germany. He predicted Germany would attempt rising to a place of world domination again.
They have.