About the International Seminars Department

At the International Seminars Department we have designed teacher-training seminars - from one-day seminars for teachers abroad to three-week seminars in Jerusalem - with educators from all over the world. We recognize the vital importance of teacher education and have channeled huge efforts in this direction. Teachers need to be well trained to teach this topic, not only in historical, specific facts but also pedagogical, hands-on techniques.

We run a summer and winter seminar for educators as well as a number of tailor-made seminars in various languages and for various target groups throughout the year on location at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, as well as abroad.

Over 1000 educators have completed the course over the last decade. Participants have come from all over the world - from Australia to the USA and from Russia to South Africa, as well as all over Europe.

The participants attend lectures given by top experts in the field of Holocaust research and education from various Israeli universities and from the International School for Holocaust Studies of Yad Vashem.

Those attending will have the opportunity to tour extensively and examine the wide range of materials and documentation at Yad Vashem. Our Resource Center contains a wealth of materials, including films, tapes and curricula for educators that will enable them to develop their own educational materials on the Shoah. Our library houses over 100,000 books; our archives hold over 60 million pages of documents and over 100,000 photographs.

With the generous support of the Asper Foundation