October 6, 2013 (pre-conference)

6 p.m. Zeughaus Augsburg (town center), Filmsaal
The Austrian author Robert Schindel, who has been awarded
many prizes for his work, will be reading from his books (in German)
Reception
This event will take place in cooperation with the German-Israeli project group „Jewish Culture and Literature in Germany after 1945“, directed by Bettina Bannasch, professor of modern German literature, University of Augsburg, and Yfaat Weiss, professor of history and director of the Franz Rosenzweig, Minerva Research Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

October 7, 2013
11.00 – 11.30 a.m.
Special Addresses:
Sabine Doering-Manteuffel, President of the University of Augsburg
Claudia Roth, Member of the Parliament of the Federal Republic of Germany
Hermann Köhler, Member of the Augsburg City Council, City Director of Education
Bernd Oberdorfer, Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences, University of Augsburg
Eva Matthes and Elisabeth Meilhammer, conference coordinators

11.30 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
The Contribution of Yad Vashem to Holocaust Education in the 21st Century
Noa Mkayton, head of the German Language Desk, The International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem, Jerusalem, Israel

12.30 p.m.
Reception

1.30 p.m.
Departure to the Concentration Camp Memorial Site, Dachau

2.30 p.m.
Address by Gabriele Hammermann, director of the Concentration Camp Memorial Site, Dachau
Guided tour by Dirk Riedel, scientific staff member of the Concentration Camp Memorial Site, Dachau

4.00 p.m.
Max Mannheimer, Holocaust survivor, former prisoner in the Dachau. Concentration Camp, speaks with Annette Eberle, professor for General Educational, Science, Katholische Stiftungsfachhochschule München/University of Applied Sciences

5.00 p.m.
Return trip to Augsburg

October 8, 2013
9.00 – 9.45 a.m.
Facing History and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behavior, Peter Nelson, director of the New York office of Facing History and Ourselves, New York, USA

9.45 – 10.30 a.m.
The Pedagogy of Remembrance: On the Theory and Practice of Educational Work of the Majdanek Memorial Museum Tomasz Kranz, director of the State Museum Majdanek, Poland

10.30 – 11.00 a.m.
Coffee Break

11.00 – 11.45 a.m.
Book Presentation: The German translation of: Bernice Lerner, „The Triumph of Wounded Souls: Seven Holocaust Survivors‘ Lives“, edited by Elisabeth Meilhammer and Martha Friedenthal-Haase; Bernice Lerner, director of adult learning, Hebrew College, Newton,Massachusetts, USA; Elisabeth Meilhammer, University of Augsburg,Germany, in the presence of Tessa Debus, publisher, Wochenschau Verlag, Schwalbach/Taunus, Werner Roller, translator, and Pastor Michael Volkmann, consultant on questions of Judaism

11.45 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
Holocaust and Education: Educational Starting-Points and Didactic Methods of the Memorial Center Kamp Westerbork, Dirk Mulder, director of the Herinneringscentrum Kamp Westerbork [Memorial Center Kamp Westerbork], The Netherlands

12.30 – 1.45 p.m.
Lunch (for invited speakers and chairpersons: reserved area at the university dining hall)

2.00 – 3.30 p.m.
Parallel work groups (languages: English and/or German):
1) Holocaust Education in Western Europe and the USA
Chair: Ludwig Eiber, professor of modern and recent history, University of Augsburg, and Saskia Eschenbacher, research and teaching associate at the Chair of Adult and Continuing Education, Univ. of Augsburg
2) Holocaust Education in Middle and Eastern Europe
Chair: Tetyana Kloubert, research and teaching associate at the Chair of Adult and Continuing Education, University of Augsburg
3) Holocaust Education in Southern Europe, Chair:Wassilios Baros, acting professor of comparative education, University of Augsburg
4) Holocaust Education im Land der Täter [Holocaust Education in Germany]. Chair: Jakob Benecke, research and teaching associate at the Chair of Education, University of Augsburg
5) Holocaust Education in the Internet, Chair: Falk Scheidig, research and teaching associate at the Chair of Adult and Continuing Education, University of Augsburg
6) Vermittlungsfragen der Holocaust Education im Kontext von Ausstellungen und Zeitzeugenschaft [Didactical Problems of Holocaust. Education in the Context of Exhibitions and the Testimony of Eyewitnesses], Chair: Werner Karg, head of the directorate, Bayerisches Staatsministerium, für Unterricht und Kultus, Bayerische Landeszentrale für
politische Bildungsarbeit [Bavarian State Department of Education, State Agency for Civic Education], Munich
7) Holocaust Education und Menschenrechtserziehung/-bildung im internationalen Vergleich [Holocaust Education and the Education for Human Rights in International Comparison] Chair: Annette Eberle, professor for General Educational Science, Katholische Stiftungsfachhochschule München/University of Applied Sciences
8) Interreligiöse Bildung nach dem Holocaust [Interreligious Education after the Holocaust], Chair: Pastor Michael Volkmann, representative of the Lutheran Church of Württemberg for the dialogue between Christians and Jews, Bad Boll, and member of the steering committee of the Stuttgart House of Study –Foundation for Interreligious Dialogue
9) Holocaust Education und Literatur, [Holocaust Education and Literature], Chair: Anja Ballis, professor for the didactics of German language and literature, University of Education, Weingarten

3.30 – 4.00 p.m.
Coffee Break

4.00 – 4.45 p.m.
Teaching Holocaust in Modern-day Russia: A Long Way to Tolerance, Kiril Feferman, director of the Russian Research and Educational Holocaust, Center, Moscow, Russia

5.00 p.m.
Bus departure to the Jewish Cultural Museum and Synagogue, Augsburg-Swabia, Augsburg
Giving Voices to the Victims of Persecution: Telling about the National Socialist Persecution of Jews, Benigna Schönhagen, director of the Jewish Cultural Museum, Augsburg-Swabia (with guided tour)
Light buffet at the museum

8.00 p.m.
Concert (Leopold-Mozart-Zentrum, Augsburg)

October 9, 2013
9.00 – 9.45 a.m.
Witnesses of the Shoah: The USC Shoah Foundation’s Video, Testimonies in School Education in Germany, Verena Lucia Nägel, project manager, Visual History Archive, Free University of Berlin, Germany

9.45 – 10.30 a.m.
From Now to Then – Didactical Approaches to Learning from History: The Living History Forum Methodology, Christina Gamstorp, project manager, The Living History Forum, Stockholm, Sweden

10.30 – 11.00 a.m. Coffee Break

11.00 – 11.45 a.m.
Nuremberg’s Former Nazi Party Rally Grounds and Courtroom 600: Living with a Distressing Past Hans-Christian Täubrich, director of the Dokumentationszentrum, Reichsparteitagsgelände [Documentation Centre Nazi Party Rally Grounds], Nuremberg, Germany

11.45 a.m. – 12.30 p.m.
Holocaust Education in the University: Cases and their Contexts, Bernice Lerner, director of adult learning, Hebrew College, Newton, Massachusetts, USA

12.30 – 1.45 p.m.
Lunch (for invited speakers and chairpersons: reserved area at the restaurant „Il Porcino”)

2.00 – 2.45 p.m.
Holocaust Memory and German Society, Dietmar Süß, professor of modern and recent history, University of Augsburg

2.45 – 3.15 p.m.
Closing discussion and farewell