Explore out educator workshops and professional development presentations
Our educator workshops and professional development presentations provide engaging, practical learning opportunities for K–12 educators, with TEKS-aligned content and programs approved by the Texas Holocaust, Genocide, and Antisemitism Advisory Commission.
Professional development opportunities are designed to strengthen educators’ confidence and effectiveness in teaching the Holocaust and related topics, with CPE credits available for participating educators.
What did Americans know about the Holocaust? What did the San Antonio community know about the Holocaust? Using resources from the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio (HMMSA) and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), teachers will use historical context and primary sources to investigate these questions. Participants will also examine the common misconception that Americans did not know about the persecution of Jewish people until World War II had ended.
Teachers will examine the various ways the Holocaust has been remembered through public memorials and art. Using the stories of local Holocaust survivors, participants will create a memorial Stolperstein (stumbling stone) while exploring the role of symbolism in remembrance. Teachers will also learn how to create and use hand-cranked flipbooks and comic strips to help students demonstrate historical causation and continuity and change over time.
Discover practical strategies, current best practices, and fresh approaches for teaching the Holocaust. Explore ways to deepen historical understanding, incorporate Jewish life and identity, increase student engagement, and approach challenging content with greater confidence. Leave with classroom-ready resources, instructional tools, and ideas you can implement immediately.
The HMMSA offers a variety of workshops during the year and is certified by the Texas Education Agency to issue CPE’s to teachers attending any of our educational events. Holocaust educators are welcome to contact the museum for help in developing Holocaust related instructional units and/or using our educational resources to support the teaching of the Holocaust.
To receive information about upcoming programs and workshops, please call us at 210.302.6807, or send us an e-mail.
Contact hmmsainfo@jfsatx.org for more information our professional learning programs
To better serve our local educators and students doing distance learning we are creating a number of live webinar events. After the events we will post the recordings here for you. Organized by grade level, easily locate webinars most related to your classroom.
Educator Trunks
Trunks from the Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio are available free of charge thanks to the contributions from the Alex and Sally Halff Foundation, the Charity Ball Association and the Nathalie and Gladys Dalkowitz Charitable Trust. Trunks may be taken out for a period of 4 weeks. The borrower is responsible for picking up and dropping off the trunks to the Museum.
HMMSA Traveling Exhibits
Each exhibit may be taken out for a period of up to 4 weeks for display in your school, library or classroom. The borrower is responsible for picking up and returning the exhibit to the Museum. These traveling exhibits are available free of charge thanks to contributions from the Nathalie and Gladys Dalkowitz Charitable Trust and the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission.
Schedule A Field Trip or Off-Campus Visit
The Holocaust Memorial Museum visits can accommodate up to 200 students at one time. Tours last approximately 2-3 hours depending on group size, and must be confirmed at least two weeks prior to your visit. For more information and to complete a field trip inquiry form, please click the button below.
Our Voices, Our Lives: Twenty Holocaust Survivors Remember
Our Voices, Our Lives: Twenty Holocaust Survivors Remember is a teacher’s resource book for English, Language Arts, and Social Studies classrooms that uses the video testimonies from the USC Shoah Foundation Institute to make stories from Holocaust survivors come alive to students in the classroom.