Holocaust learning event set for S.F.

The Day of Learning, presented by the Holocaust Center of Jewish Family and Children’s Services, will be held March 17 at Mercy High School in San Francisco.

The S.F.-based JFCS is inviting schools, youth groups and educators to sign up for the program.

Established in 2003, the Day of Learning offers students and educators an opportunity to learn about the Holocaust and patterns of genocide. A survivor’s eyewitness testimony is included in each of more than a dozen workshops.

More than 500 students (grades 8-12) and teachers are expected to participate in the program, which is free and runs from 12:30 to 5 p.m. at Mercy High, 3250 19th Ave., San Francisco. For more information, contact Morgan Blum, the Holocaust Center’s director of education, at .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) or (415) 449-1289.

The event is a program of the Preisler Shorenstein Institute for Holocaust Education and is co-presented by more than a dozen organizations, including the Anti-Defamation League, Congregation Emanu-El, the Curriculum Initiative, the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation, the Helen and Joe Farkas Center for the Study of the Holocaust at Mercy High and the USC Shoah Foundation Institute.