2026 Conference Presentations

Below you can download the Power Point Presentations that were presented at our 2026 Conferences. Just click the button for the presentation you want to download to view then select the download icon.

Social Studies

Rhonda Cegielski and Shannon Daye — Timeline Investigations

Lori Zimmerman — Who Was Targeted and Why? Teaching the Full Scope of Nazi Persecution Through Inquiry

Anita Yocum — Teaching the Holocaust Through the Arts: Art as Witness

Jennifer Means — Soviet POWs: Forgotten Victims of the Holocaust

Naomi Kikue Poindexter, Ph.D. — Mosaic of Suffering: The Sinti, Roma People of Europe, and the Black People of Germany Under Nazi Oppression

Kaylea Hutson-Miller — How the Nazi’s Eugenics Program Evolved, Leading to the T-4 Program and the Final Solution

Penny Crofford — Jews Weren’t the Only Victims: A Look at the Experience of Catholic Priests and Jehovah’s Witnesses During the Holocaust

Judi Hall — The White Rose Movement: The “Measure of Their Own Strength” in Their Resistance Against Nazi Germany

Shawn Elmore, M.Ed. — Defiance Beneath the Pink Triangle: LGBTQIA+ Resistance and Legacy in the Holocaust

““And respect other people even if they are different. Get to know a person as an individual and not as a group that is stereotyped. You’ll be surprised what you have in common.””

— Eva K. Unterman

Eva Unterman “Child Holocaust survivor, liberated from Terezin on may 8, 1945 when she was 12 years old.”