Educators share strategies in professional development sessions
by Alexander King, Education/Programs/Volunteers
The education component at NMHIM had a very productive year. We continued to grow and expand our in-school programs, bringing survivor Andy Holten to various schools to share his experiences and wisdom with students. Coordinator Alexander King also presented a number of workshops to help bolster high-school students’ Holocaust education. NMHIM was pleased to bring more than 1,000 students and teachers from across the state to the museum for school tours.
NMHIM staff, in collaboration with local education advisers, hosted a professional development in Las Cruces in December. New Mexico teachers gained valuable resources and strategies on effectively educating students about the Holocaust, other genocides, and additional difficult topics.
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In the past year, Sheri Karmiol, our volunteer librarian who also is board treasurer, updated the physical space by adding book carts for wheeling books to shelves. That sounds like such a small thing, but after years of carrying books and sorting them on tables, having book carts makes the job of shelving books much easier for Carol Pe- ters and Peggy Shurban, volunteer library assistants. They spend time covering, shelving, or searching for books incorrectly placed. Their efforts have led to better organized materials and neater shelves. We have added a great many new books to the library this past year. In addition to those donated which we count on to fill holes in our collection, Sheri purchased several new books from Yad Vashem. She focused on the most recent research, as well as recently published memoirs, including The Holocaust: The Unique and the Universal - Essays Presented in Honor of Yehuda Bauer , Pariahs among Pariahs: Soviet-Jewish POWs in German Captivity, 1941–1945, and Win- ter In Greece: War, Occupation, and the Shoah, 1940–1944 . Ken Schoen, owner of a used bookstore in Deerfield, Massachusetts, donated many Holocaust-focused books to us. Some are new and some are gently used. All are in great shape. The addition of these, whether purchased at Yad Vashem or donated by Schoen Books, has led to an effort to clean the shelves of multiple extra copies.
If folks have books they wish to donate, send an email to s_karmiol@nmhim.org or call the museum (505) 247-0606. We are always looking for books and other media. Any donations that can’t be used are given to educators, school libraries, or the Albuquerque Pub- lic Library for book sales. Many thanks to everyone who has donated library items this past year. Your generosity has made our museum library even better.
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