Our nation's capital; my home from 2013-2018

USHMM, 20th anniversary event (photo taken in 2013 when I first started working there; 2013-18)

View from USHMM archives; my former place of employment (2013-18)

Hall of Witness, USHMM (where I worked as a Program Coordinator from 2013-18)

USHMM (my place of employment from 2013-18)

USHMM (where I served as an Ed Program Coordinator 2013-18)

Newest USHMM exhibit, "Americans and the Holocaust"; I was able to tour it right before I left my position in May, 2018

"Our walls bear witness" - USHMM Center for the Prevention of Genocide program; took this photo as we drove home from running on the National Mall (2016)

USHMM screening of "The Zookeeper's Wife"; grateful for the experiences I was afforded as an Ed Program Coordinator (2013-18)

USHMM conversation with women in the film (lead actress, producer, director, etc.); grateful for these experiences while I worked there (2013-18)

Hall of Remembrance - USHMM

Hall of Witness, USHMM (my former employer, 2013-18)

With Holocaust survivor and USHMM founder, Elie Wiesel at a private dinner and speaking engagement in WI (Sept. 2006)

With Holocaust survivor, Gerda Weissmann Klein at a private dinner and speaking engagement in WI (Feb. 2006)

Holocaust survivor, Aaron Elster, at Peace Pole and Prayer Garden dedication ceremony, MN - 2008

Survivor, Aaron Elster, in MN to speak with my students, May 15, 2009

With survivor, Aaron Elster, in DC for book signing event at USHMM - July 29, 2013

In Chicago w/Holocaust survivor, Aaron Elster, Sept. 30, 2016

With Teresa and Carl Wilkens at USHMM where I served as Program Coordinator (2013-18); they were featured presenters at the Museum Teacher Fellowship program.

Carl and Teresa Wilkens, co-founders of World Outside My Shoes

My family with Carl Wilkens at USHMM for Museum Teacher Fellowship program presentation (where I worked 2013-18)

My daughter w/Teresa and Carl Wilkens; she brought them to her university for a program

Early morning room prep for Teacher Fellowship program, USHMM where I served as Program Coordinator (2013-18)

Museum Teacher Fellowship program, USHMM while I was the Program Coordinator (2013-18)

Museum Teacher Fellows lay wreath at WWII Memorial special service during Fellowship while I was Program Coordinator (2013-18)

MTFs Jim and Brad, both vets, lay wreath for Museum Teacher Fellows at WWII Memorial

1936 Berlin Olympics artifacts, USHMM. Grateful for opportunities to see the artifacts that help to tell the stories.

Grateful to the archivists and curators who shared artifacts with our program participants (USHMM Program Coordinator, 2013-18)

Grateful for visits to the USHMM archives where the artifacts helped to personalize individuals and their stories (2013-18)

Artifact from the Holocaust (Diary)

Intl Holocaust Ed program; Lithuania contingent (while I was a Program Coordinator 2013-18)

USHMM Hall of Witness set up for Teacher Fellowship reception afterhours (when I was a Program Coordinator, 2013-18)

With Dr. Jim Waller at USHMM. He was a featured presenter at Museum Teacher Fellowship program when I was the Program Coordinator (2013-18)

With PhD, author, presenter, Jim Waller - Museum Teacher Fellowship program (when I was Program Coordinator, 2013-18)

Alma, educator from Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Jim Waller, PhD/author/presenter - Museum Teacher Fellowship program (when I was Program Coordinator, 2013-18)

With filmmaker, Chris Temple - screening of "Salam Neighbor" w/Museum Teacher Fellows (when I was Program Coordinator, 2013-18)

With (former) USHMM education programming staff, Christine and Cameron, 2018

With Alma, educator from Bosnia and Herzegovina; MTF program while I was the Program Coordinator (2013-18)

With Museum Teacher Fellow and a co-presenter, Laurie, at USHMM while I was on staff (2013-18)

At Auschwitz-Birkenau in 2012

Auschwitz-Birkenau, shoe exhibit 2012

Auschwitz-Birkenau; crematoria and barracks

Auschwitz railcar and barracks (2012)

IL Holocaust Museum and Ed Ctr Skokie, IL

IL Holocaust Museum and Ed Ctr, Skokie, IL

Private tour of Holocaust museum in IL with survivor, Aaron Elster, 2012

Aaron giving us a private tour at IL Holocaust Museum where his artifacts are part of the permanent exhibit

Special private tour with friend and survivor, Aaron Elster, in Skokie, IL, 2012

At IL Holocaust Museum with survivor, Aaron Elster, 2012

Aaron by plaque of the couple who rescued him by allowing him to hide in their attic, 2012

At IL Holocaust Museum w/survivor, Aaron Elster - our own special tour from him, 2012

Terezin Museum and Ghetto, Czech Rep

Presenting w/Holocaust Ed colleague, Magda from the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, at Terezin, Czech Republic, 2014

Terezin Memorial, Czech Rep

Watching live performance of "Brundibar" with a Holocaust survivor from original "Brundibar" at Terezin Memorial, Czech Rep

With survivor who was a child in "Brundibar" performances during Holocaust , 2014

Leading presentation for Czech Rep teachers at Terezin Memorial; headphones for translations, 2014

With Naďa from Terezín Memorial education staff, 2014

Facilitating program sessions at Terezin, Czech Republic (held in attic of barracks where "Brundibar" performances took place), 2014

With Petra, Education Director at Terezin Memorial, 2014

Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina (where Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, starting WWI) 2015

Historic part of Sarajevo - 2015

Old Town Sarajevo at night - so beautiful! 2015

Took a walking tour w/a survivor of the Siege of Sarajevo; walked through the city and up into the hills; one of the cemeteries we passed.

Walking tour of Sarajevo; "Roses" still reman on sidewalks from siege (where mortar struck and killed people; later filled in with red paint as reminders / memorials to those who perished during the Siege of Sarajevo)

Memorial to the children killed during the siege of Sarajevo; June 2015

Footprints at the Children's Memorial in Sarajevo

Mosque in Sarajevo - 2015

Museum exhibition for Srebrenica - Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2015

Jahorina, Bosnia and Herzegovina - location of the Educator's Summit - June, 2015

With the Educators' Institute for Human Rights (EIHR) staff who hosted the multi-day Bosnia Summit for Educators - June, 2015 (Jessica, Lisa, and Kate)

Presenting "Scandinavia and the Holocaust" at my alma mater (JCRC/ASI Holocaust Educator Training, 2016)

JCRC/ASI Holocaust Educator Training: "Scandinavia and the Holocaust", Moorhead, MN 2016

Scandinavia and the Holocaust Conference -Moorhead, MN (JCRC/ASI Holocaust Educator Training, 2016)

Conference in MN for pre-service teachers, 2017

With Museum Teacher Fellows who helped to facilitate a workshop in NE, 2018 (During my tenure at USHMM, 2013-18)

Univ. College London's Ctr for Holocaust Ed - enjoying a working lunch w/the team before presenting my research project , "Oath and Opposition: Education under the Third Reich", 2018