Wednesday, December 8 | 4-5 pm| Free; 1 PDUs available
Millions of ordinary people witnessed the crimes of the Holocaust—in the countryside and city squares, in stores and schools, in homes and workplaces. Across Europe, the Nazis found countless willing helpers who collaborated or were complicit in their crimes.
In this session, Kelly Watson models how to utilize the Some Were Neighbors online exhibition from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to explore what motives and pressures led so many individuals to abandon their fellow human beings and why others make the choice to help.
Kelly Watson has been an 8th grade English teacher at Fishers Junior High in Fishers, Indiana for the past 27 years. As a Program Coordinator for the Educators’ Institute for Human Rights, she currently leads their work in Cambodia, where she presents Holocaust Education workshops in partnership with the Documentation Center of Cambodia. She is a member of the Museum Teacher Fellowship and CHEC partner for the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, a Master Teacher with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute, and a 2013 participant of the Centropa Summer Academy in Berlin. Kelly has traveled throughout the US and Poland, working with teachers on how to effectively teach about the Holocaust and other genocides. In 2001 she published a collection of testimonies with her students, entitled Indiana Voices of the Holocaust: Teens Talk to Survivors and Liberators, and in 2012 along with colleague Robert Hadley published an online curriculum for the USC Shoah Foundation called If You Survive, Be a Man: Teaching the 1994 Rwandan Genocide of the Tutsis and an Information Quest on the USC Shoah Foundation’s IWitness page about survivor Kizito Kalima. Kelly Watson is a devoted BTS Army member and currently resides in Noblesville, Indiana, with her husband Sean, daughter Eowyn, beagle Hamlet, three cats, and a seemingly immortal goldfish named Elizabeth.
This program is in partnership with the United States Memorial Holocaust Museum.
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