"This is the most outstanding training in any area I've received in my four-decade teaching career."

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"A journey into the past to inform and question the present."

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"The Holocaust Institute for Educators is an educator's dream, with lesson plans, history, and teaching strategies all under one roof."

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"The Holocaust Institute at FSU is everything a person who desires a clearer understanding of the Holocaust needs/ wishes/desires. It's a comprehensive, intellectual approach to understanding this incredible period of history."

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"I will never be the same after this experience. The information presented, the ideas to take back, the sharing with colleagues - all of this has really been life-changing. This week has been the highlight of my career as an educator."

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"This institute is a concentration of all the aspects of human emotion - joy, pain, pride, shame, good and evil - the most important lessons any person could learn or teach."

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"You filled my head and filled my heart, and now I'm anxious to share."

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"The survivors' segment inspired me as a human being. If these human beings could go through the valley of death and see the world with such grace, then I can honor them by teaching the Holocaust in such a way that my students will have the courage to overcome intolerance in their community."

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"The Institute has exhausted and exhilarated me! I am more determined than ever to continue to address Holocaust issues and topics whenever the opportunity arises in my classes, and I am determined to create the opportunity"



More comments from previous participants:

"This is a comprehensive course that introduces the right amount of individual/personal history, driving home the fact that the overwhelming statistics had the faces and lives of people behind them."

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"Having heard, seen, felt, and discussed the Holocaust during this Institute, I have a sense of powerful urgency to return to my students armed with activities that will promote their critical thinking on the topics of intolerance, complicity and resistance."

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I believe that succeeding generations will be protected and nurtured from exposure to the lessons of the past. As part of a global, national or local citizenry, students who understand the consequences of action and inaction will carry the torch for social justice."

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"I believe you have done your job ... and now it is our job. We are the leaders of the future."

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"The Holocaust Institute has been my most valuable learning experience since graduating from college in 1970 ... This learning experience may have challenged my mind, but it also touched my heart."

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"The resource material is extremely valuable, well organized and adaptable to any level."

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"A very good foundation - the first step in a thousand mile journey."

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"The faculty gave me new insight into the use of the Holocaust as a teaching tool. We discovered how to develop connections with present-day examples of racial intolerance and genocide."

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"Incredibly valuable as a teacher, as a Christian, as a human being. The Holocaust was not just a Jewish tragedy - it was a human tragedy."

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"Thank you for offering such a fine inspirational and instructive seminar. Because of the convictions and credibility of the presenters, a balance was struck between impassioned info and passionate human response."

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"There was so much extraordinary information presented that can be directly implemented into classrooms. Drama, visuals, maps, informative handouts - all will be used. In addition, instructional models were illustrated."

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"The materials alone will improve my presentations 100%."

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"All the information aside - to have the opportunity to hear about this subject from such experts in their fields and to share time with peers who are willing to share themselves and their experiences is truly wonderful."

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"This was one of the most efficient, well-organized seminars I have attended."

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"The Florida State University Holocaust Institute was an indelible experience."

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