Tag: Holocaust
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Rutgers offers professional development course on the Holocaust
Registration is open for a free, one-week professional development course on the history of the Holocaust sponsored by the Rutgers Master Teacher Institute (MTI) in Holocaust Education. The course will run daily from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. June 26-30 at the Bildner Center, 12 College Ave., New Brunswick, for middle and high school teachers…
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Holocaust survivor wants children to protect the future
By JENNIFER AMATO Managing Editor NORTH BRUNSWICK – Imagine having to leave home as a young teenager. Imagine being separated from your entire family. Imagine being forced to bunk in a bed with five strangers. Imagine having to work all day on an empty stomach. Imagine watching people being tortured and killed in a variety…
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East Brunswick professor receives excellence award
EAST BRUNSWICK – A professor at Middlesex County College (MCC) has received the school’s 2017 Faculty Scholar Award. Shirley Wachtel, a 30-year resident of East Brunswick, is a professor of English. Her pedagogical research on reading and basic skills resulted in the 2012 publication of “Spotlight on Reading.” She has also published extensively for adults…
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Author to share personal story of surviving the Holocaust
Congregation B’nai Tikvah will serve as the host to local author Miriam Dobin as she discusses her book “I Am Because of You” at 10 a.m. on April 23 at the temple, 1001 Finnegans Lane, North Brunswick. Dobin will share her story about her family’s unbreakable will to survive the Holocaust and the unexpected miracle of…
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Author to share mother’s story of the Holocaust
Temple B’nai Shalom and The Daniel Pearl Education Center will sponsor renowned author Dr. Shirley Wachtel at 7 p.m. on April 25 at the temple, 15 Fern Road, East Brunswick, for a discussion tied to “My Mother’s Shoes,” her moving memoir of her mother, a Holocaust survivor. Wachtel, a 30-year resident of East Brunswick, is a…
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Holocaust survivor will speak at library on Jan. 11
Author Miriam Dobin will discuss the story of how her family survived the Holocaust, which is the subject of her book, “I Am Because of You,” at 7 p.m. on Jan. 11 at the East Brunswick Library, Civic Center Drive, East Brunswick. The program is sponsored by the East Brunswick Library and the East Brunswick…
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Survivor shares horrors of Nazi history
BY KATHY CHANG Staff Writer EDISON — It took a longtime for Eva Wiener to consider herself a Holocaust survivor. “When you think of a Holocaust survivor, you may think of a number on one’s arm, concentration camps and someone like Anne Frank,” she said. Wiener, of Neptune, said there are many stories of the Holocaust…
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History of the Holocaust course completed by area educators
NEW BRUNSWICK/PISCATAWAY – Fourteen educators from across New Jersey participated in an intensive professional development course on the history of the Holocaust at Rutgers. Now in its fourth year, this free mini-course offered through the Master Teacher Institute in Holocaust Education (MTI) provides a rare opportunity for teachers to study Holocaust history in an intensive…
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Samsel students learns about the Holocaust firsthand
SAYREVILLE – Fifth graders at Samsel Upper Elementary School (SUES) in Parlin observed Yom Hashoah in May, which is also known as Holocaust Remembrance Day, by listening to the stories of Holocaust survivors. Learning about the Holocaust is part of the fifth grade curriculum, with a special program collaborated by retired teacher Adele Goldenberg and SUES…
