NCCAT is proud to announce scholarship awards for five outstanding teachers to attend a Holocaust Educator Seminar in Poland this summer. The five scholarship recipients stood out from among 45 teachers who applied. They will be awarded these scholarships from the NCCAT Development Foundation’s Holocaust Endowment Fund. A decision about the trip will be made later as world events allow.
The Development Foundation of NCCAT, Inc. maintains a Holocaust Endowment Fund as part of NCCAT’s ongoing support of Holocaust education in North Carolina. The Foundation’s endowment scholarships, for $2500.00 each, will cover the majority of expenses for an intensive one-week seminar in Poland in June 2022.
The winners of the scholarships are:
Gracen Banning (Wake County)
Carla Beck (Clay County)
Meredith Howell (Stanly County)
Ricki Stewart (Dare County)
Dina Uzzell (Wayne County)
The teacher participants together with two NCCAT Teacher-educators (also funded by the endowment) will visit the concentration camps of Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka and Majdanek and learn about the Holocaust in the cities of Warsaw, Krakow and Lublin. There will be a special ½ day teacher’s educational seminar at the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw and a dialogue with Polish high school history teachers.
The trip will be led by Rabbi Fred Guttman and veteran Holocaust educator Lee Holder. Rabbi Guttman has been a Holocaust educator for more than 40 years and has led 19 educational seminars in Poland. Lee Holder is a longtime North Carolina teacher and member of the NC Council on the Holocaust. He is the director of the Gizella Gross Abramson Resource Center for Holocaust and Civil Rights Education in Kinston, North Carolina. In 2011 he was named the Irena Sendler Award winner, recognizing one outstanding Holocaust educator annually, worldwide, and one in Poland.
Some forty teachers representing more than 20 North Carolina school systems will participate in this program.
NCCAT is pleased to be able to support the “Gizella Abramson Holocaust Education Act,” which became law in November 2021 and requires the development of Holocaust education curriculum for North Carolina schools. The Act assigns the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction to collaborate with the North Carolina Council on the Holocaust, as well as NCCAT on the curriculum.
Information about NCCAT’s Holocaust endowment and how to support it can be found at this link:
https://www.nccat.org/make-gift/give-online/holocaust-education-endowme…