Capital District Council for the Social Studies (Albany, NY)
Join the CDCSS, the Holocaust Survivors & Friends Education Center, and the Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York for a Holocaust session lead by a local Social Studies teacher and author.
About the presenter: Matt Rozell was born and raised in Hudson Falls, NY and he joined the faculty of his alma mater at Hudson Falls in 1987. He would teach world history, as his father had done across the river at Glens Falls. Over the next 30 years he eventually taught every subject in the Social Studies department, specializing in the history of World War II and running summer archaeology field courses at the colonial frontier sites he had discovered along the Hudson. He created an oral history program at the high school that became the catalyst for the ten-volume The Things Our Fathers Saw book series.
Mr. Rozell also specialized on the teaching of the Holocaust. He reunited over 275 Holocaust survivors with their actual American soldier-liberators, described in his 2016 book, A Train Near Magdeburg. He and his former students were featured as the “ABC World News Persons of the Week” on Sept. 25, 2009, after a joyous community-supported reunion at the high school. His teaching experiences have been filmed for the CBS Evening News, NBC Learn, the Israeli Broadcast Authority, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and the New York State United Teachers.
Copies of Rozell's books will be available for purchase and he will be available for a book signing.
There will be a light supper for registered in-person attendees!
CTLE credit will be provided by the CDCSS for all certified middle and high school teachers. Registration is being handled by the Jewish Federation of Northeastern New York. A light supper, including a vegetarian choice, will be provided.
The deadline for registration is Friday, March 14.
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