"Abstraction is memory's most ardent enemy. It kills because it encourages distance and often indifference. We must remind ourselves that the Holocaust was not six million. It was one, plus one, plus one..."

One, by One, by One by Judith Miller

Susan Prinz Shear M.A. is a child of Holocaust survivors and a former teacher and school counselor who educates teachers and students about the Holocaust. Susan studied at Yad Vashem's International School for Holocaust Studies in Israel and Poland and worked as an interviewer of Holocaust survivors for Steven Spielberg's Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. She served as Education Specialist for the Holocaust Awareness Institute at the University of Denver, worked with Regis University and conducts presentations, workshops and trainings for teachers and students regionally and nationally No Way Out the story of Susan’s family in Nazi Germany told through their own letters, continues to be a central focus of her work. Susan developed a workshop based on her family's attempts at escaping Nazi Germany, published a Teaching Curriculum and a Readers' Theatre for school use. No Way Out will be available as a short story in the soon to be published The Call to Memory: Learning About the Holocaust Through Narrative. Recently Susan completed a full script of No Way Out ideal for Regional, Community and University theatre productions.


Additional Links:
Center For the Study Of War Experience
www.callofmemory.com

Contact Information:
Email: janice@patentseminars.com
Tel: (303) 772-6220 / Fax: (720) 652-0787

Susan Prinz Shear | Copyright 2008