The Jan Karski Institute for Holocaust Education

There is still time to apply to the 2016 Jan Karski Institute!
We are accepting applications until May 1. To apply, go to: http://cjc.georgetown.edu/karski/apply

CBS News 60 Minutes will be airing a segment this upcoming Sunday, October 4th at 7:00pm EST featuring Fr. Patrick Desbois and Yahad-In Unum.

Jan Karski photos on show at Singer's Warsaw Festival Photographs and documents relating to the life and work of Jan Karski are on view at an exhibition at the "Singer\'s Warsaw" Festival.

The last day of the 2015 Jan Karski Institute is underway!

As we reflect on the week's sessions, we remember Jan Karski, himself, pictured here at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's wall of honor for the Righteous Among the Nations.

ICYMI: Fr. Patrick Desbois and Yahad-In Unum were mentioned in the Washington Post's article on the new monuments revealed in Ukraine for the mass grave victims of the Holocaust. Fr. Desbois speaks with our participants of the Jan Karski Institute for Holocaust Education today in a private session and then will give a public lecture this evening.

Ukraine monuments on mass graves recognize Jews killed in Holocaust Ludvika Sarah Leah Schein, who survived the Holocaust, hadn’t been to her hometown in 70 years. But she still vividly remembers the day Germans came to Rava-Ruska.

We had the privilege of hearing from Mr. Reuven Azar and Mr. Abe Foxman (of the ADL) at the Israeli Embassy yesterday. Thank you for contributing to the 2015 Jan Karski Institute!

"S.W.A.G." Stuff We All Get. Or in this case, stuff our participants get.

The participants of our 2015 Jan Karski Institute for Holocaust Education will be arriving in DC on Sunday! The S.W.A.G. is packed and our student helpers have been briefed. We are ready for another intense and excellent program this year! And hope our participants are too!

Our 2015 program starts on Sunday! We are looking forward to welcoming this year's participants to DC and Georgetown University in just a few days!

Our public events will be held at a downtown location this year! We hope you will be able to join us for a lecture by author Richard Rashke on his book Escape from Sobibor on Monday, July 13th and a lecture with Fr. Patrick Desbois on Thursday, July 16th. Make sure you RSVP if you plan to attend!

Georgetown University's Program for Jewish Civilization The Program for Jewish Civilization (PJC) is part of Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS), a premier school of international affairs. The PJC is home to the study of the global dimensions of Judaism throughout the ages and especially in our own era, with an emphasi…

"I was born into an Irish Catholic family in this great, wonderful and safe country, but the Holocaust has always haunted me..."

James Comey, Director of the FBI – Federal Bureau of Investigation, on why he sends his agents & analysts to visit the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Why I require FBI agents to visit the Holocaust Museum The two key lessons that special agents and intelligence analysts need to learn.

There is a week left to apply for this summer's Jan Karski Institute!

Join us this summer - submit your application at https://sites.google.com/a/georgetown.edu/jan-karski-institute/apply by April 19 for consideration.

There is still time to apply to the 2015 Jan Karski Institute!

Contact Anna Dubinsky ([email protected]) if you have any questions.

Submit your application at: https://sites.google.com/a/georgetown.edu/jan-karski-institute/apply

We are exhibiting at the NCEA Convention in Orlando, FL this week!

If you're there, stop by our booth ( #670)!

Don't let Jack be the only one who plays chess with the great Jan Karski! (photo from Jack the Bulldog)

Apply to the 2015 Jan Karski Institute!

https://sites.google.com/a/georgetown.edu/jan-karski-institute/apply

Get an overview of our summer Jan Karski Institute in this article by the Jan Karski Educational Foundation from a few years ago.

http://www.jankarski.net/en/news-and-events/news/georgetown-s-jan-karski-institute-for-holocaust-education-graduates-17.html

And don't forget to apply to the upcoming summer program here: https://sites.google.com/a/georgetown.edu/jan-karski-institute/apply

Georgetown's Jan Karski Institute for Holocaust Education Graduates 17 A class of 17 educators received certificates on July 20 from the second annual Jan Karski Institute for Holocaust Studies held on the campus of Georgetown University. Jan Karski Educational Foundation president Wanda Urbanska participated in the intensive, six-day program.

Don't forget to apply to the 2015 Jan Karski Institute!
This year's program will take place July 12-18, 2015.

https://sites.google.com/a/georgetown.edu/jan-karski-institute/apply

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During , the teachers become the students. Doing a small group activity as part of the training with Peter Fredlake from the USHMM.

Professor Jacques Berlinerblau leads a review of Holocaust literature and Philip Roth's Ghost Writer.

Thank you to Deputy Chief of MIssion Reuven Azar and the staff of the Embassy for a wonderful program last night.

Our very own Fr. McManus leads a session on Simon Wiesenthal's "Sunflower." Soon we are off for dinner and a screening of "Monuments Men" at the E Street Cinema with remarks by art restitution expert Tom Kline.

Professor Zhiqing Zhong considers Israeli Memory on the Holocaust through the lens of Hebrew literature.

A wonderful lecture by Deborah Lipstadt on the Eichmann trial. Thanks to everyone who battled the heat to be here.

Rabbi Gary Bretton-Granatoor, our first official speaker, provides a (brief) overview of Judaism.

Welcome participants! We are anxiously awaiting your arrival!

We are 3 days away from the start of 2014!

2013 participants attended a lecture on relations at the US Apostolic Nunciature http://www.georgetown.edu/news/educators-earn-holocaust-education-certificates.html

Educators to Earn Georgetown Holocaust Studies Certificate Georgetown and local high school students helped with this summer's Jan Karski Institute for Holocaust Education. From left, high schooler Liam Kierans and Archbishop Emeritus of Washington Theodore Cardinal McCarrick gather with Georgetown students Nernwon Kargou (SFS'15), Katelyn McNelis (SFS'15)…

We will be using the hashtag leading up to and during the summer program. Search the hashtag to learn what is happening this year or to find information from last year's program.