Featured Teachers

Remembering Toshimi We are so saddened by the sudden and tragic loss of Holocaust educator, Toshimi Abe-Janiga of Palm Beach, Florida. She was named Teacher of the Year in 2022 by the Palm Beach County School District. It was an honor to have Toshimi participate at TOLI’s first seminar in… [continue reading]

“TOLI: It changes you. It makes you want to get involved in the life of the community you live in. It encourages you to find out less known things, to love and look at history with different eyes.” – Livia Ghiurcuta, 5-year TOLI Impact Grant recipient. Livia teaches… [continue reading]

When Hallie Leach was growing up, she did not receive an education about the Holocaust. In college, she took a class on Judeo-Christian Religious Traditions, which addressed the subject. “We read Night and I could not believe that I had not learned about it… [continue reading]

Meet Kimberly Jones, high school teacher from Chapel Hill, NC who participated in TOLI’s 2022 Seminar on Holocaust and Human Rights Education. When Kimberly Jones, a high school English teacher from Chapel Hill, North Carolina, first taught the Holocaust seventeen years ago, she probably didn’t anticipate it would become a… [continue reading]

Jews in Romania, once home to one of Europe’s largest Jewish communities, suffered deeply during the Holocaust. Nearly 400,000 Jews were killed in Romania or territories it controlled as an ally of Nazi Germany, with only 10,000 or so living in the country today. Yet young Romanians know very little… [continue reading]

When she was growing up, Katarzyna Laziuk knew little about the Jewish history of Mińsk Mazowiecki, the small Polish city east of Warsaw. But as a teacher, Kasia, as everyone calls her, has been in the forefront of… [continue reading]

Scott Lone, a Wisconsin teacher at West Bend East High School in West Bend, Wisconsin, has been teaching the Holocaust for 23 years. In 2014, Scott attended the NY Summer Seminar: “It was the best professional development I’ve ever had in 23 years of teaching. It unfolded all… [continue reading]

Creating Change Agents Through Holocaust Education Bettina Pope, a teacher in Wake Forest, NC and TOLI alumnae, sees the impact of her teaching the Holocaust has in today’s anti-racism movement.  “I believe in creating change agents,” says Bettina Pope, a… [continue reading]

For Idaho educator Laron Johnson, the 2018 New York City seminar, followed by the 2019 seminar in Billings, Montana, provided not only professional development but a way to build community: “Holocaust education is not required in this state, yet we have so many schools that have developed excellent… [continue reading]

Inspired by the 2018 TOLI seminar in Bydgoszcz, Poland, Marzena Wolschlaeger, a History and Social Studies teacher in Bydgoszcz developed the powerful “In the beginning was a Word …” project together with Danuta Kopińska- Kołowacikin to show students how intolerance… [continue reading]