Dr. Batya Brutin is an art historian and researcher of art during and after the Holocaust and Holocaust monuments in Israel and worldwide. From 2000 to September 2018 she was the director of the Holocaust Teaching in Israeli Society Program at Beit Berl Academic College in Israel. Dr. Brutin taught ten annual courses connected to Holocaust events and their impact on Israeli society to students studying to be educators (Jews and Arabs). In addition, Dr. Brutin conducted a student exchange program with The Pedagogical University and The Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and organized and guided educational trips to Poland with her students.

Dr. Brutin is a research associate at the Chair of the Abraham and Edita Spiegel for Holocaust research, Bar-Ilan University. Dr. Brutin published academic books, essays, and educational materials on the subjects mentioned above and received the Yad Vashem Award for lifetime achievement in the field of Holocaust education in 2018.

Patron of the event: The Herzl-Thon Center for Israel Studies and Polish-Israeli Relations in Krakow

In English.
Free admission.