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| National Park Service      | Manzanar         |   | PO Box 426        |
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| U.S. Department of the     | National         |   | 5001 Highway 395  |
| Interior                   | Historic Site    |   |                   |
|                            |                  |   | Independence, CA  |
|                            | Use the complete |   | 93526             |
|                            | site name here   |   |                   |
|                            | (e.g. Palo Alto  |   | 760 878-2194      |
|                            | Battlefield      |   | phone             |
|                            | Historic Site).  |   |                   |
|                            |                  |   | 760 878-2949 fax  |
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**Manzanar National Historic Site** News Release

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For Immediate Release: January 17, 2007

Contact: Gretel Enck

Phone: 760 878-2194 ext. 2713

**Manzanar Hosts Gulag Teacher Workshops Around California**

Manzanar National Historic Site is hosting four teacher workshops in
California in conjunction with a traveling exhibit about the Gulag camps
of the former Soviet Union. The workshops will be based on a curriculum
unit developed by Harvard University's National Resource Center for
Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies (NRC) as a companion to
the exhibit and accompanying website.

The 2 ½ hour workshops will prepare teachers to use a 3-day curriculum
unit for middle and high school students in the United States. The unit,
entitled, "GULAG: Soviet Prison Camps and their Legacy," includes
chapters devoted to the creation and scope of the Gulag system, daily
life in the camps, as well as the Gulag's historical legacy. The
curriculum includes historic accounts of different aspects of the camp
experience, photographs and artwork, as well as class exercises and
homework.

Workshops will be held in Los Angeles, Sacramento, and San Francisco in
February. The Los Angeles workshop will be held at UCLA on Monday,
February 12. Please contact Mary Miller for more information and to
register at 310.206.9796 or mmiller@gseis.ucla.edu. The Sacramento Area
workshop will be held at the Placer County Office of Education in Auburn
on Wednesday, February 14. Please contact Roni Jones for more
information and to register at 530.889.5990 or
<rjones@placercoe.k12.ca.us>. The San Francisco workshop will be held at
Fort Point National Historic Site on Thursday, February 15. Please
contact Gretel Enck for more information and to register at
760.878.2194, ext. 2713 or <gretel_enck@nps.gov>. These three workshops
will each run from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m.

Workshops will be led by David Hosford, a co-writer of the Gulag
curriculum unit. In addition to being a high school History teacher,
Hosford is also a member of the NRC and the director of the Stalin
Project. The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded Hosford a two
year grant to develop educational material about Stalin for high school
teachers and students.

A final workshop will be held at Manzanar National Historic Site in
Independence, CA, on Saturday, February 24 from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
This workshop will be led by Gretel Enck, a park guide at Manzanar and
the lead for bringing the Gulag exhibit to California. Participants of
this workshop will be able to tour the exhibit and discuss options for
class field trips. Please contact Gretel Enck for more information and
to register at 760.878.2194, ext. 2713 or <gretel_enck@nps.gov>.

Manzanar National Historic Site asks teachers to register soon for these
workshops. All workshops are free but space is limited. Workshop
participants will receive a bound copy of the Gulag curriculum unit and
Manzanar teaching materials. Please visit the Manzanar website at
<http://www.nps.gov/manz/planyourvisit/gulag-at-manzanar.htm> to learn
more about the workshops.

The curriculum unit complements a traveling exhibit, *GULAG: Soviet
Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom.* The National Park
Service, in a unique partnership with the Gulag Museum at Perm-36,
Russia, the International Memorial Society, and Amnesty International
USA, presents the first exhibition in the United States on the Soviet
Gulag. Manzanar National Historic Site and the Eastern California Museum
host *GULAG: Soviet Forced Labor Camps and the Struggle for Freedom*
February 17 to October 21, 2007. The exhibit will be on display at the
Eastern California Museum in Independence, California.

Manzanar National Historic Site is located six miles south of
Independence, California, on U.S. Highway 395 and contains exhibits and
audio-visual programs related to the World War II internment of Japanese
Americans. For more information please visit [www.nps.gov/manz or call
760.878.2194](http://www.nps.gov/manz or call 760.878.2194), ext. 2710.

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