The Educators' Chapter records predominately relate to the JLC's participation in the Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teachers' Program, which is co-sponsored by the JLC, the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Their Descendants, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The materials in this series were predominately created or collected by Vladka Meed, a Vice President and Executive Committee member of the JLC.
The Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teachers' Program, instituted by Meed in 1984, operates a three-week Summer Seminar for secondary school teachers who incorporate the study of the Holocaust into their classrooms. Form letters addressed to applicants to the seminar, subject files on teachers accepted into the program, photographs from the teachers' visits to historic and memorial sites like Treblinka and the Warsaw Ghetto Monument in Israel and Poland, the teachers' travel journals, and other materials document the work put into planning the seminars and the experiences of the seminars' participants.
The Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Teachers' Program also hosts a National Alumni Conference for teachers who complete the Summer Seminar. Records in the Educators' Chapter series reveal the JLC's involvement in organizing these annual (and later biennial) conferences, mostly in the form of budgets and financial reports, correspondence, lists of attendees, minutes, samples of conference packets, programs, speakers' biographies and drafts of speeches, photographs, and audiocassette tapes of workshops and other conference events. The materials from the second conference held in 1989 include transcripts of the audiocassette tapes.
The JLC's commitment to promoting Holocaust education is also documented through its collection of educational resources in the form of curriculum guides, published materials such as books and plays, and audiovisual media.
