The Canadian Society for Yad Vashem is excited to announce the 15 recipients of the 2018 Holocaust Scholarship Program
The CSYV Holocaust Scholarship Program for Canadian Educators
The CSYV Holocaust Scholarship Program is designed to educate Canadian educators, from Jewish and non-Jewish schools, and equip them with the right academic tools to teach about the Holocaust. Each year, CSYV selects up to 20 of the top candidates to attend a 19-day International Seminar on the Holocaust at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. At the seminar, recipients learn from world-renowned experts in Holocaust studies how to best teach about the Holocaust.
Upon their return from the seminar, CSYV works closely with scholarship recipients for the next two years to enable them to implement what they have learned about the Shoah in their classrooms. This impacts schools and communities across Canada, ensuring that the universal lessons of the Holocaust are conveyed to the next generation of Canadians.
The seminar is comprised of the following:
- Academic Component: takes participants through the history and culture of the Jewish people in the interwar period, the history of antisemitism, the stages of the Final Solution, and the Jewish response to the Nazi onslaught
- Pedagogical Component: provides participants with the tools to translate the academic content into suitable pedagogical materials that are multidisciplinary and age-appropriate for their students
- Experiential Component: includes meetings with Holocaust survivors whose testimonies document and personalize this tragic historical event, field trips that connect educators with both the recent history of the Jewish people and their ancient roots in the Land of Israel, and films and workshops that enhance both the historical and pedagogical components of the program
With the seminar taking place annually in July, CSYV begins the process of recruiting potential scholarship candidates, collecting pertinent information, interviewing the candidates, consulting with Yad Vashem, and selecting the scholarship recipients as early as October of the previous year.