Next Course: Oct/Nov 2025
Speaker Training
3G Sydney is excited to partner with Living Links to offer Speaker Training to the grandchildren of Holocaust Survivors - empowering Sydneysiders to learn and compelling share their family's Holocaust stories with students and community groups.
What to Expect
Our Speaker Training program, presented in affiliation with Living Links, teaches you to confidently share your grandparent's Holocaust stories with others.
The Speaker Training Program, created by 3GNY in 2010, is an educational course for you to learn how to share your family's Holocaust experiences with students and community groups.
You will be provided with tools for storytelling and family research materials that include the vast USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive. Support is available throughout and after the course.
Why 3Gs Choose to Participate
To make the lessons of the Holocaust resonate with the next generation of students
To connect with their family history
To meet others with similar family stories
To explore how the Holocaust has shaped their lives, values, and perspectives
Course Outline
The program consists of 4 x 2hr virtual training sessions, delivered online over a course of Sunday mornings, and culminates in an in-person debrief at the Sydney Jewish Museum.
Each session is carefully tailored to demonstrate best-practice storytelling in the context of Holocaust education, and to impart a series of story-telling techniques to help you design a compelling story both about your grandparent's Holocaust experience, as well as your own experience as the grandchild of a Holocaust survivor.
Each week small tasks a set so that by the end of the program you have developed a 20 minute (approx) story ready to share with others.
Weekly Content
Week 1: Meet your fellow 3Gs. Discuss desired outcomes from the training and speaking engagements. Hear an example of a 3G presentation.
Week 2: Share your outline and receive peer and facilitator feedback. Discuss storytelling tools and style.
Week 3: Present a short section of your presentation and receive peer and instructor feedback.
Week 4: Present your full presentation and receive feedback. Discuss the story structure and your performance. Talk through next steps and how, when, and where you will tell your family’s story.
Dates
Session #1 Sunday 19 October 2025, 10am - 12pm, ZOOM
Session #2 Sunday 26 October 2025, 10am - 12pm, ZOOM
Session #3 Sunday 2 November 2025, 10am - 12pm, ZOOM
Session #4 Sunday 16 November 2025, 10am - 12pm, ZOOM
Session #5 Sunday 23 November, Time TBC, IN-PERSON debrief
Apply now
Spots fill up fast as numbers are limited (12 in a class only) so if you are interested, please register asap here: Speaker Training Class Application and someone will be in touch to confirm your place.
How do I need to prepare?
First, don't be daunted. Some people have stronger starting points because their grandparents filmed testimonials or were more forthcoming with their history, whilst many others others are starting from very little.
Start to gather whatever information you do have, whether that is photos, artefacts or testimony, and start talking to family members who might know more than you do. You might also want to do a little research about the place where you grandparents came from, or were held, or were in hiding, but we can also assist you to place your story into its proper historical setting.
Think also about what it meant to you to grow up as the grandchild of Holocaust survivors.
You don't need to have all the answers or all the information ready for the first session. Your research, as well as the formation of your story, will happen over time.