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Professional Learning

Using Survivor Testimony in the Classroom, in Partnership with Generation 2 Generation

Support your students’ intellectual and emotional engagement with survivor testimony in the classroom.

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Antisemitism Culture & Identity Genocide Global Migration & Immigration Human & Civil Rights Racism Resistance The Holocaust

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Watch this one hour webinar which provided practical activities and teaching strategies to create a supportive, reflective and safe classroom environment in which students can engage intellectually and emotionally with Holocaust testimony. In this webinar, we were also joined by Lesley Urbach from Generation 2 Generation.

Lesley Urbach

Co-chair of the planning committee and a trustee for Generation 2 Generation

Since retiring from her work as a careers adviser, Lesley Urbach has graduated with an MRes degree in Jewish History and Culture from Southampton University, and co-founded the Remembering Eleanor Rathbone Group. She has been involved with Generation 2 Generation from its inception and is a co-chair of the planning committee and a trustee. Since 2014 Lesley has been befriending a young woman who came to Britain as a domestic slave, and between 2015-2020 helped support Syrian refugees in Barnet.

Please note: The views expressed by guest speakers, both at our events and on external platforms, are their own and do not necessarily reflect the views of Facing History & Ourselves.

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Using Survivor Testimony in the Classroom, in Partnership with Generation 2 Generation

About this event:

Featured Speakers

Lesley Urbach

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