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Gratz College to Hold Teach-In on
Holocaust Education
M SASHA ROGELBERG | STAFF WRITER
arty Tuzman, son of
Holocaust survivors Esther
and Arnold Tuzman,
thought about Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’
in the Wind” as he was leading a
Holocaust education presentation to a
group of sixth graders last month.

Th e students asked questions unrelent-
ingly, all of them insightful and intro-
spective. As Tuzman pondered how to
answer the questions, he was reminded
of the experience of listening to Dylan’s
song, eagerly awaiting the answers to the
existential questions posed in the verses.

In the case of Holocaust awareness and
education, some of the answers to the
complex questions remain unanswered:
“What do we do? How do we make peace
with this? How do we resolve to look
back at what happened?” Tuzman said.

Elisha Wiesel, son of Holocaust survivor and scholar Elie Wiesel, and Irwin
Cotler, founder of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre on Human Rights, will discuss
Holocaust education to kick off the 2022 Arnold and Esther Tuzman Memorial
Holocaust Teach-In.

On Nov. 6, the Arnold and Esther
Tuzman Memorial Holocaust Teach-In at
Gratz College, organized by its Center for
Holocaust Studies and Human Rights,
SUN, NOV 13
1:30 - 4:00 PM
JACK M. BARRACK
HEBREW ACADEMY,
272 S. BRYN MAWR AVE,
BRYN MAWR PA
will help to address these questions on
how to preserve and teach the legacy of
the Shoah to future generations.

Th e program, “Battling Indiff erence:
How We Teach the Holocaust,” will
take place from 1-6 p.m. both online
and in-person at Gratz’ Melrose Park
campus and will open with a dialogue
between Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel’s
son Elisha Wiesel and Raoul Wallenberg
Centre on Human Rights founder and
former Canadian Attorney General
Irwin Cotler. Anti-Defamation League
Philadelphia Director of Education
Randi Boyette will moderate the session.

“Our entire center is predicated
on sensitively negotiating tensions
between learning about and from the
Holocaust,” Gratz President Zev Eleff
said. “We strongly believe that the
Holocaust was a sacred moment in
world history, in Jewish history. At
the same time, we also believe that it
cannot always remain apart, that there
are values and there are lessons to be
drawn from our current moment.”
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