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16
Mar
2021
Return to Rivne: Stations Lesson
Using Return to Rivne as the centerpiece, this lesson uses stations for students to explore the geography, pre-war life, Roma people, the family that hid Shelly and Raya, the toys Shelly and Raya made, statistics, and Holocaust terms for students to explore the context of this story. Google Earth and Google Voyager are used to virtually visit Rivne.
17
Dec
2020
Centropa Biography Film/Stolpersteine Assignment
In this project, students work in pairs to read Centropa biographies, create a 5 minute video about the interviewee, and design a Stolpersteine (commemorative stone) for them.
26
Feb
2020
Could you be righteous?
Students will understand who were Righteous Among the Nations – people who not only saved
Jews but risked their lives while doing that. They will be introduced the basic stages in the
development of moral reasoning (Kohlberg’s interpretation). Holocaust dilemmas will help
students understand the challenges that non-Jews have been faced with. They will understand the
circumstances in which people lived during World War II through personal stories from 3
Centropa’s films as well as through research and analysis on the Righteous from Krusevac. In the
14
Dec
2019
Jewish People and Gentiles
Our textbooks have very little information on the Holocaust. Students are familiar with the impacts of the Holocaust in Germany and Poland but they know very little about Eastern European countries. Many Jewish people were saved and taking the time to learn about the Gentiles allows our students to see how different people around the world helped.
18
Dec
2017
American Civil Rights Movement and Sarajevo
Students build a more complex and deeper understanding about the Civil Rights’ Movement as well as the activists and their non-compliance/non-violence approach to halt the laws and people in positions of power that oppose change to the status quo and contrast it to the defiance of laws in Sarajevo during the war in the 1990s.
12
Dec
2017
Courageous People Project
Students work on the questions of “what is an act of moral courage” and “what is required to act courageously”. They explore the past and the present to discover courageous acts and/or courageous people.
07
Dec
2015
27 January -- International Holocaust Remembrance Day
13
Aug
2015
Righteous Remembrances
This 2015 Milton Wolf Prize winning lesson stresses the importance of individual responsibility and accountability in the face of difficult choices. Students will learn about individuals during the Holocaust who, in the face of incredible uncertainty and personal risk, chose to do the right thing and protect those who were being persecuted.
25
Aug
2014
Überleben in Sarajewo
Im Fokus dieses Planes stehen der Film und eine Ausstellung mit dem Titel „Survival in Sarajevo – Friendship in a times of war“.
22
Apr
2013
Breda and Matilda Kalef: "Three Promises"
