Photo Analysis of Pre-War Jewish Life
Complete a Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self, Text-to-World activity using photographs of Jewish life in Europe before World War II.
Surviving Theresienstadt: The Michael Gruenbaum Collection
Photo archivist Judith Cohen describes how a scrapbook and memory book from Holocaust survivor Michael Gruenbaum provide a rare view into life in the Theresienstadt camp-ghetto.
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Historical Character Map
Help students engage with a historical character by creating an annotated illustration.
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Teaching Holocaust and Human Behaviour: Unit Overview
This unit overview gives you a brief summary of all of the lessons in the unit and lists the materials needed alongside the main activities.
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Watching Schindler’s List in Five Class Periods
Use these recommendations to segment a viewing of Schindler's List over multiple class periods.
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Forced March to the Ghetto
Holocaust survivor Moshe Shamir recalls how he and his family were uprooted when the Nazis invaded and forced to relocate to a ghetto.
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A Statement of Faith
Survivors of the ghetto-camp Terezin share stories about their underground publication Vedem and other acts of spiritual resistance.
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Forgetting Isn't Healing
Jouranlist Sonari Glinton connects Elie Wiesel’s teachings on bearing witness to his own experiences as a Black man in the United States.
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We Call Ourselves "Roma"
Scholar Margareta Matache explains significant moments in the history of the Roma people.
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We May Use Words to Break the Prison: Elie Wiesel on Writing Night
Elie Wiesel explains that he wrote his memoir Night out of a duty to bear witness to his experiences in the Holocaust.
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Monsters and Men: The Nazis at Nuremberg
Social psychologist James Edward Waller uses the stories of the Nazis at Nuremburg to discuss human capacity for evil.
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