Holocaust+Museum

=Holocaust Museum Videoconference =

[] Database for Holocaust research



Elissa Frankel 202-488-6810 efrankle@ushmm.org

**PRELIMINARY AGENDA **

9:00 Welcome & Introduction (David Klevan) 9:15 How the site works – Practicing with Case Studies 9:45 Experiential learning, “citizen history” projects, classroom integration, and the role of librarians Research issues we may address (and that student researchers using the site will master) Before the day of the workshop, it is useful for participants to read through the following documents to familiarize themselves with the history and experience of Lodz Jews during the Holocaust. This also gives a sense of the type of content support that the Holocaust Museum provides online for learners and participant researchers. 1. [|Holocaust Encyclopedia article] on the Lodz ghetto: [] 2. [|Online exhibition] related to children from the Lodz ghetto: [] 3. [|Children of the Lodz Ghetto: A Memorial Research Project]: [] 4. [|Secondary source information] about Lodz ghetto Jews in the Nazi camp system: [] 5. An [|article] written by a university professor who used the site with her students: []
 * About names research & Holocaust Museum mission
 * The Lodz schools album and the Lodz Children Memorial Research project
 * Overview of Research Project Web site and role of advanced researchers
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.5in;">Bajla Epsztajn
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.5in;">Jerzy Orbach
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.5in;">Edzia Abbe
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.5in;">H. Baharier
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.5in;">Open discussion and Q&A
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.5in;">Understanding and identifying linguistic cognates
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.5in;">Predicting and recognizing typos and changed dates and names
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.5in;">“Interpreting” abbreviations, place names, dates, etc.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.5in;">European vs. American date notation
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.5in;">The relevance of an absence of data/information
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.5in;">Interpreting “leads” embedded in the history – recognizing important dates, events, places, trends.
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.5in;">How to use secondary sources as a guide for primary source research
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.5in;">What to do if there is only a first initial but no first name in the signature?
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; font-size: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt; tabstops: list 1.5in;">Performing your own online research to find out more