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Introducing Our US History Curriculum Collection
Draw from this flexible curriculum collection as you plan any middle or high school US history course. Featuring units, C3-style inquiries, and case studies, the collection will help you explore themes of democracy and freedom with your students throughout the year.
Maggid, The Four Children
Use this reading to introduce students to the Four Children featured in the Maggid, the storytelling section of a Passover Seder.
Partisan Life
Former Jewish partisan Sonia Orbuch explains how she perceived life among the partisans as a "good life."
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Passing the Torch of Memory: The Importance of Survivor Testimony
Holocaust survivors and their families talk about the importance of survivor testimony.
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Pigeon
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Set during World War II and based on a true story, Pigeon recounts a rare act of kindness.
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Power and Responsibility
Former Jewish partisan Frank Blaichman reflects on how he managed the responsibility of carrying firearms.
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Preconditions for the Holocaust: Prejudice in 20th Century Europe
Scholar Doris Bergen describes some of the preconditions that contributed to Nazi violence in World War II and the Holocaust.
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Prejudice and Pride (1965-1980)
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Part five of Latino Americans details the creation of the proud Chicano identity, as labor leaders organize farm workers and activists push for better education opportunities for Latinos, the inclusion of Latino studies, and political empowerment.
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Preparing for the Kindertransport
Vera Gissing, a Holocaust survivor from Czechoslovakia, recalls how her family prepared her for the Kindertransport, a rescue mission that brought thousands of Jewish refugee children to Great Britain.
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Protecting Jews
Former Jewish partisan Frank Blaichman describes finding shelter for Jews who could not join the partisans' resistance efforts.
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Questions of Complicity: France and the Nazi Occupation
Scholar Aliza Luft discusses the changes that took place in France when the Nazis invaded in 1940.
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Rachel Auerbach and Jewish Life in Warsaw between the Wars
In this clip from the feature documentary "Who Will Write Our History," Rachel Auerbach, a leading member of the Oyneg Shabes, describes the richness of Jewish life in Warsaw, Poland, before World War II.
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