אנשים בשחור-לבן

Our personal and professional lives invite endless dilemma - what to wear in the morning? Which partner to choose? Should we close this deal? Do I need to lay off some employees to save the company? How to motivate my employees? What would be the correct way to implement changes in the organization?
What is the connection between our personal and professional dilemmas now days and our dramatic dilemmas that occurred in our history?
To many people the Holocaust is an event cut off our normal lives, and considered as another event that took place on a different planet, an event that belongs to history lessons and for Holocaust Remembrance Day only. The Holocaust is indeed an extreme event in human history, but it did not happen on another planet. It happened in the in the 20th century as one of the horrible things that happened in the modern age. It was carried out by ordinary people and ordinary people have had to deal with it. The Holocaust provides us with a fascinating sight to look at ourselves as human beings taking place in our daily lives. We refer to the Holocaust mostly as a model of destruction and death docile, but the opposite view on it - life against all odds - is fascinating and full of practical lessons and inspiring.

There is much to learn on the practical level from real occurrences of the Holocaust, because they showed the worst and the best from us humans.
How did the Jewish leaders in the Ghettos dealt with an endless crisis conditions and extreme uncertainty when they are between a rock and a hard place - the obligation to obey the Germans and their attempts to save the inhabitants of the ghetto? How they the leaders forgo over their own survival and were able to move an entire community into action? What made thousands of non-Jews risk their lives to save Jews without asking anything in return? Is there a common denominator to such a supreme altruism?

About Me

My name is Guy Shemer, a lecturer on the Holocaust and its lessons. Not only for the Holocaust Remembrance Day, and not just lectures. As a History teacher to the populations who are considered tough, I realized that in order to learn from history, words are not enough, it requires also the need to experience.                         
During my years, as chief instructor at the Yad Vashem Museum, I instructed heads of states, Hollywood stars and billionaires alongside survivors, youth, institutions, organizations and private companies.                         
I am an expert in the Holocaust education. I was the chief instructor at Yad Vashem Museum and Deputy Director of Training. I guided, among others, the United States President Barack Obama, Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown, The President of Austria Heinz Fischer, Jerry Seinfeld, Quentin Tarantino, Israeli Defense Force Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi, Minister Dan Meridor and many more VIPs. I conducted training courses at Yad Vashem Museum, training manuals and dozens of instructional and lectured in Hebrew and English to hundreds of diverse groups of adults. In addition, I am also specializing in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum and the Museum of Majdanek in Poland and guided army delegations and youth groups to Poland.