2019 Oregon Civics Conference

Guiding Questions: How can students recognize the roots of genocide through escalating acts of hatred, bigotry, and intolerance? How did/can individuals and groups resist against injustice? How does United States history, and Oregon-specific history, connect to the Holocaust?

In this session participants will be shown six tools of discrimination that OJMCHE has identified as a way to discuss how acts of intolerance and hatred escalate and combine to become genocide. Additionally, we will also review six tools of resistance to demonstrate how individuals and groups have taken action to confront and combat injustice. This interactive session incorporates historical examples from Oregon and the Holocaust and contemporary events.  Oregon now requires students to learn about genocide and its causes and effects. Learn from Amanda Solomon, the Manager of the Jewish Museum & Center for Holocaust Education about how to improve your own knowledge and deliver such crucial information to your students in meaningful ways.