The annual Day of Learning, a free program of the S.F.-based Jewish Family and Children’s Services Holocaust Center and the Preisler Shorenstein Institute for Holocaust Education, is set for March 18 at San Francisco’s Mercy High School.
The day includes a program of 14 interactive workshops about the Holocaust and patterns of genocide.
Workshop facilitators include Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan, the senior educator at Lehrhaus Judaica; Martina Knee, executive director of the San Francisco Bay Area Darfur Coalition; Karen Korematsu, co-founder of the Fred T. Korematsu Institute for Civil Rights and Education at the Asian Law Caucus (who will lead a workshop about Japanese-American internment during World War II); and Mark Davis, a museum teacher fellow with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Mercy High School, the site of the Helen and Joe Farkas Center for the Study of the Holocaust, is located at 3250 19th Ave. in San Francisco. Registration is free, but required by Monday, March 12. For more information, email [email protected] or call the JFCS Holocaust Center at (415) 449-3717.