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“Using Audiovisual Material in Educating about the Holocaust” — A New Conference

The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust at the State Museum Auschwitz Birkenau in cooperation with the Warsaw Center for Social Innovation and Education Training organized a conference 4-5 September 2009 entitled “Using Audiovisual Material in Educating about the Holocaust.”
The conference program included topics on the use of documentary and feature films in school education. The conference lasted three days.

On the first day, participants took part in workshops devoted to the comparative analysis of films “Photographer” by Dariusz Jablonski and “Hear My Cry” by Maciej Drygas in the context of individual attitudes towards evil, as well as, in courses on the representation of Auschwitz in Polish cinema of the 1960s.

The second day of the conference began with a lecture devoted to educational activities of the USC Shoah Foundation Institute. Subsequently, classes were also held on the practical use of audiovisual resources in education, for example materials jointly created by USC Shoah and ICEAH.

On the third day of the conference, the participants were acquainted with the issues of “perpetrator” and “victim” presented from perspectives in movies and participated in workshop activities about the film “PoLin”, directed by Jolanta Dylewska.