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Teaching with Video Testimony
Duration
One 50-min class periodSubject
- History
- Social Studies
Grade
6–12Language
English — USPublished
Updated
Overview
About This Lesson
Survivor and witness testimonies—firsthand accounts from individuals who lived through or encountered genocide and other atrocities—help students more deeply appreciate and empathize with the human and inhuman dimensions of important moments in history. They supplement what we learn from historians and secondary sources by offering unique perspectives on the difficult and sometimes impossible situations individuals were forced to confront during moments of collective violence and injustice.
The activities in this lesson support teachers and students to engage with video testimony of survivors, rescuers, and witnesses of genocide, and to discuss these important stories in a reflective classroom environment.
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