Long Beach Jewish Life August 2014 | Page 39

HAPPENINGS Workshop student and a teacher in a San Fernando Valley high school, Lisa Kassner, enjoys a chat with Gerda Seifer at the reception for those who attended the Teachers Training workshop on the Holocaust the week of July 1 4-1 8 at CSULB. The workshop , which provides regional high school teachers with information about the historical context and major events of the Holocaust and other genocides throughout the world was initiated by a generous contribution from Gerda and Dr. Harold Seifer in honor of Mrs. Seifer's parents who perished in the Holocaust. Eva Schlesinger, r.,accompanied by her daughter, Veronica Schweitzer. enjoyed the reception at the completion of the one-week Eva and Eugene Schlesinger Teacher Training Endowed Workshops held at Cal State University Long Beach each summer attracting teachers from all over this region of Southern California. This was the fifth year of the important program sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program and the History Departments at CSULB. WWW.LBJEWISHLIFE.COM