Programs
Holocaust Studies
Moreshet is a leading research and education center dedicated to exploring and studying the Holocaust through its archive and programming. Moreshet hosts study days, semester-long seminars and conferences in its classrooms and auditorium. Since 1963, Moreshet has regularly published a respected academic journal of Holocaust research, as well as hundreds of books related to the topic.
Study Journeys to Poland
Moreshet offers annual preparation programs for study journeys to Poland. These programs review the history of pre-war Poland, with a focus on Jewish life, World War II, the Holocaust, and the postwar period. The programs prepare individuals (students and adults alike) for the mixed emotional and educational experience they inevitably confront when they later travel to concentration camps, ghettos, cities, and towns in Poland.
Advanced Teacher Training
Moreshet offers a number of teacher training courses, which prepare instructors to educate students about the Holocaust. One of these courses, a year-long course for 60 high school teachers, is taught jointly with Yad VaShem and recognized for credit by the Ministry of Education and Bar-Ilan University.
One Hundred Children's One Hundred Hearts
Designed for children in the 5th through 8th grades, this popular program teaches youngsters about Janusz Korczak - physician, author, educator and lover of children. The program incorporates performance and involves children in creative drama to bring the figure of Korczak to life.
To Carry the Past Within You
This program, offered as part of Jewish Heritage Studies in junior high schools, analyzes Jewish identity and the Holocaust. The course encourages students to work together and take a pro-active role in their studies. The program investigates some of the dilemmas that youth face across generations, and urges students to consider various historical perspectives and cultural narratives.
In 2005, this program was brought into schools in the city of Be-yer Sheva. This year, the program is being introduced to Ethiopian communities in the city of Yokne-Yam, in order to teach this new immigrant group about the Holocaust and its relation to Jewish and Israeli identity.
Children In the Holocaust Era
Through the diaries, artwork and personal stories of children who lived during the Holocaust, Moreshet aims to connect children across the historical gap and help today's young develop a sincere relationship to the Holocaust.
The Moreshet Archive
The Moreshet Archive is comprised of documentary material and primary sources entrusted to it by those who survived the Holocaust and resisted the Nazis. Upon its opening, the Archive received thousands of documents from survivors and others who lived through World War II. This material makes up the greater part of the Archive's collection. To this day, the Archive continues to grow, assembling material that documents the horrors of the Holocaust and the strength of the Jewish resistance.