June 2017 - HKHTC

HKHTC Art and Writing Contest: Year 9 – 13
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HKHTC Art and Writing Contest: Year 9 – 13

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HKHTC Art and Writing Contest: Year 9 – 13

admin@HKHTC2017-06-30T15:16:07+08:00Tags: Event, HKHTC Art & Writting Contest|

After the success of our previous contest we were proud to organize the Art & Writing contest for Years 9 – 13 students in Hong Kong. This
year’s theme is ‘HOW AND WHY SHOULD WE REMEMBER ACTS OF GENOCIDE?’

This year’s student winners have approached this question creatively. Here are the winners and their works:

Visual Arts Category: drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, design, crafts, photography, video, film
Winner: Anja Herrmann (Island School – Year 11)
https://youtu.be/F55YpUz0bTw

Performing Arts Category: drama, spoken-word poetry, dance, performance, composition
Winners: Emily Wong, Jacqueline Pan, Anina Law (Sha Tin College – Year 9)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSImUuwir2M&feature=em-upload_owner

Writing Category: creative or essay
Winner: Ofir Razon (Elsa High School – Year 11)

JTA’s Front-page Coverage of Holocaust Survivor Henry Friedman’s HK and China Visits
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JTA’s Front-page Coverage of Holocaust Survivor Henry Friedman’s HK and China Visits

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JTA’s Front-page Coverage of Holocaust Survivor Henry Friedman’s HK and China Visits

etienne2017-06-29T14:07:29+08:00Tags: Courage Conference 2017, Henry Friedman, Jewish Times Asia|

The June 2017 issue of Jewish Times Asia has published a front page story of our Holocaust survivor guest Mr Henry Friedman’s visit in HK and Dongguan, where the Courage Conference 2017 took place in late May.

Jewish Times Asia’s coverage of Yom Hashoah ceremony 2017
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Jewish Times Asia’s coverage of Yom Hashoah ceremony 2017

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Jewish Times Asia’s coverage of Yom Hashoah ceremony 2017

etienne2020-12-31T09:20:56+08:00Tags: Jewish Times Asia, Yom HaShoah|

The Yom Hashoah event organised by HKHTC this year has received Jewish Times Asia’s extensive coverage. The story can be read here.

HKHTC Teacher Training Workshops in South China
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HKHTC Teacher Training Workshops in South China

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HKHTC Teacher Training Workshops in South China

etienne2017-06-29T11:51:41+08:00Tags: Educator Workshops, Genocide Awareness, Holocaust education, School Visits|

In May 2017, Simon Li, (HKHTC Director of Education and Anne Frank House’s Visiting Educator), Ephraim Kaye (Yad Vashem’s Director of International Seminars for Educators) and Glenn Timmermans (University of Macau’s Professor and HKHTC Board Director) travelled to China to present several workshops at the International School of Dongguan (ISD) for teachers and educators in the region and neighbouring
districts.

HKHTC’s workshops for the local and expatriate teachers in the Guangdong Province include: “How to Teach the Holocaust: Victims,
Perpetrators, Bystanders”, “The Decision to Kill the Jews: The Final Solution and its Implementation”, “The History of Antisemitism”, as
well as “Confronting the Phenomenon of Holocaust Denial: A Workshop”. In our workshop series in early May, there were more than 30 educators who took part in our Teacher Training Workshops. Then in our subsequent follow-up workshop series in late May, the number of
educator participants rose to around 60. The school has invited HKHTC to return to Dongguan next year again for more Teacher Training
Workshops.

Yom Hashoah 2017: A Day to Remember The Holocaust
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Yom Hashoah 2017: A Day to Remember The Holocaust

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Yom Hashoah 2017: A Day to Remember The Holocaust

etienne2017-06-30T15:39:47+08:00Tags: Genocide Awareness, HKHTC, Holocaust, Yom HaShoah|

Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Memorial Day, is observed every year. It is a day of commemoration of the six million Jews who perished in the Holocaust as a result of actions carried out by Nazi Germany. On April 24, HKHTC was honored to host the annual Yom Hashoah ceremony, which was held at the Jewish Community Centre, in remembrance of the millions of Jewish lives that perished in the Holocaust.

This year’s theme was “Never Again”. Members from all of Hong Kong’s Jewish congregations were represented.In addition, representatives from many consulates joined the evening’s gathering and other multi-faith leaders.In attendance was Sagi Karni, Consul General of Israel to Hong Kong, who gave an address. Opening remarks were read by Glen Steinman, HKHTC Director. The evening programme included a moving and graphic video documentary entitled Sgt. Howard Cwick, Jewish Liberator: Eyewitness to History.

EUROCLIO Director and HKHTC Director Discussed Educational Approaches in The Hague
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EUROCLIO Director and HKHTC Director Discussed Educational Approaches in The Hague

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EUROCLIO Director and HKHTC Director Discussed Educational Approaches in The Hague

admin4HKHTC2017-06-30T15:01:15+08:00Tags: EUROCLIO, Genocide Awareness, HKHTC, Simon Li|

In late May 2017, HKHTC’s Director of Education Simon Li and the Director of European Association of History Educators (EUROCLIO) Jonathan Evan-Zohar met together in The Hague to discuss strategies that can help history educators in Asia to develop meaningful and effective ways to enhance classroom teaching on the Holocaust and related WWII topics. Mr Li and Mr Evan-Zohar also discussed prospects of future collaboration between the two organisations.

EUROCLIO is an organisation that was established in 1992 at the request of the Council of Europe. It aims to foster the development of innovative and responsible history, heritage history and citizenship through developing critical thinking, incorporating diverse perspectives and worldview, as well as creating a community of mutual respect.

Director of Education Paid Tribute to Holocaust Victims at Westerbork Camp on Liberation Day
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Director of Education Paid Tribute to Holocaust Victims at Westerbork Camp on Liberation Day

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Director of Education Paid Tribute to Holocaust Victims at Westerbork Camp on Liberation Day

admin4HKHTC2017-06-29T10:33:52+08:00Tags: Anne Frank House, Holocaust, Simon Li|

As the Amsterdam-based Anne Frank House’s Visiting Educator, HKHTC’s Director of Education Simon Li visited the Westerbork camp, which was a WWII Nazi detention and transit camp in Hooghalen, on the Liberation Day (Dutch: Bevrijdingsdag). In the Netherlands, Liberation Day is commemorated each year on May 5th to mark the end of the occupation by Nazi Germany during WWII. During the visit at Westerbork, Mr Li also met with local students and educators from the region.

Student Actors and Actresses of “Auschwitz Lullaby” Joined HKHTC Workshop
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Student Actors and Actresses of “Auschwitz Lullaby” Joined HKHTC Workshop

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Student Actors and Actresses of “Auschwitz Lullaby” Joined HKHTC Workshop

etienne2017-06-30T14:17:56+08:00Tags: Auschwitz, Genocide Awareness, Holocaust education, School Visits|

In April 2017, secondary students from Yew Chung International School (YCIS) came to the HKHTC resource centre to participate in a workshop delivered by Director of Education Simon Li on the Auschwitz concentration camp. This workshop was aimed to prepare the student actors and actresses prior to their performance of the “Auschwitz Lullaby”. The school later shared with HKHTC that the school play was a big success.

Director of Education Simon Li to Serve as Anne Frank House’s Visiting Educator
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Director of Education Simon Li to Serve as Anne Frank House’s Visiting Educator

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Director of Education Simon Li to Serve as Anne Frank House’s Visiting Educator

etienne2017-06-29T15:37:02+08:00Tags: Anne Frank, Anne Frank House, Holocaust|

HKHTC continues to broaden its reach. HKHTC Director of Education Simon Li has served as a visiting educator at the Anne Frank House in
Amsterdam this spring. During his academic visit, Mr Li and the in-house educators at the Anne Frank House have been exchanging
scholarly ideas related to approaches to teaching Anne Frank’s diary in Asia and the pedagogy of Holocaust education.

“Since the days when I was a senior lecturer in academia, I’ve strived to teach tolerance and mutual respect through the inspiring story of
Anne Frank,” Mr Li said. “I find this opportunity to share ideas about an important topic I’ve taught in East Asia for my entire academic
life truly exciting.” An award-winning former journalist from Toronto, Mr Li served as the Head of General Education at a tertiary institute
in Hong Kong before being appointed by HKHTC as its Director of Education in 2016. Anne Frank House is a writer’s house and
biographical museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank.

Holocaust Survivor Micha Gelber Met with Director of Education Simon Li at Rotterdam’s Memorial for Jewish Children
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Holocaust Survivor Micha Gelber Met with Director of Education Simon Li at Rotterdam’s Memorial for Jewish Children

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Holocaust Survivor Micha Gelber Met with Director of Education Simon Li at Rotterdam’s Memorial for Jewish Children

etienne2017-06-28T10:44:19+08:00Tags: Anne Frank House, Holocaust, Micha Gelber|

The Joods Kindermonument is a children memorial site in Rotterdam which commemorates the deaths of 686 Jewish children who were killed by the Nazis. In Spring 2017, Director of Education Simon Li (Visiting Educator, Anne Frank House) visited the Joods Kindermonument and paid tribute to the children victims who ranged from only a few months to 12 years old. Most of them did not survive the war.

Holocaust survivor Micha Gelber, who was HKHTC’s in-house guest this January, was one of the key leaders behind this project to build a monument to commemorate these children. This monument also includes an artwork with the names of the 686 Jewish children who perished and indicates which concentration camp they were sent to.

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