Ackerman Center Programs
Holocaust Remembrance Education
Purdue University’s James F. Ackerman Center for Democratic Citizenship continues to sponsor student and educators’ programs as part of the annual Greater Lafayette Holocaust Remembrance Conference.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat its mistakes.
George Santayana
(1863-1952)
Greater Lafayette Holocaust Remembrance Conference Educator Workshop
Learning lessons from the past about the risks faced by democratic societies is a key skill of informed citizens. The Ackerman Center has supported the Educator Workshop as part of the Greater Lafayette Holocaust Remembrance Conference (GLHRC) for over 20 years because of the importance of continuing to teach the history of the Holocaust and associated topics in our classrooms. The Educator Workshop supports new teachers as well as those with a great deal of experience and appeals to teachers of many subject areas including English and social studies.
- 2023 Workshop: The Assignment: Being an Upstander – Liza Wiemer, author
- 2019 Teacher to Teacher: Strengthening Our Teaching of the Holocaust – Stella Schafer, McCutcheon teacher and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Fellow
- 2018 Dialogue Across Difference – Heather Frazier, Facing History and Ourselves, Presenter
- 2017 Exploring the Treatment of Refugees through Primary Sources – Dr. Elizabeth R. Osborn, IU Center on Representative Government, Presenter
Engel Award
In addition to facilitating the Educator Workshop, the Ackerman Center also participates in the GLHRC Planning Committee and supports the Engel Award, which is a small grant program to help teachers fund resources or experiences to support teaching about the Holocaust or related ideas such as cultural diversity and civic engagement. See the GLHRC website for current application materials.
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