After the Follow-up Seminar, participants design and implement projects in their schools and communities aimed at sharing their experiences and disseminating the lessons they have learned.
Follow-up activities in schools have included assemblies, displays and presentations on issues dealing with the Holocaust. Many students choose to focus on contemporary lessons of the Holocaust such as the celebration of diversity; highlighting issues such as racism and bullying in schools; current genocides around the world; active citizenship; and the dangers of being a bystander to racism. Students have written articles and poems for school newsletters, websites and magazines and others have arranged for Holocaust Survivors to speak in their school. One set of students invited a speaker who worked for the United Nations and helped set up war crime tribunals in Rwanda.
Click here to view examples of student projects in our "Student Showcase."
Seeing things in the flesh is a lot more hard-hitting than reading a textbook.