This lesson plan uses group work, creative writing, and multimedia to teach subjects including History, Literature, Civics, Social and Political Education, Philosophy, Language etc. It is also useful in discussions about multiculturalism, war and peace, the Second World War, crimes against humanity, genocide and holocausts (e.g. the Jewish Holocaust), modern European history, moral and ethical issues, struggle for survival, etc.

ЦИЉ ТЕМЕ: Упознавање ученика са географским положајем Сарајева и структуром становништва у прошлости и сада ради развијања интеркултуралних односа (дијалога) и проактивног става у борби против стереотипа и предрасуда, уважавања и поштовања различитости и исказивања толерантног става. 

NASTAVNIK: Timka Pašić-Alagić, profesor historije,  Srednja elektrotehnička škola Sarajevo, Bosna i Hercegovina

NASTAVNI PREDMET:  Odjeljenska zajednica/ Historija

NASTAVNA JEDINICA: Migracije

UZRAST UCENIKA: Učenici osnovnih i srednjih škola

NASTAVNI CAS:  45 min.

The Bosnian-Serb siege of Sarajevo, from spring 1993 until winter 1996, was the longest in modern history. With electricity, water and food supplies cut off and only sporadically supplied, with 11,541 citizens shot by snipers or killed by mortars, Sarajevans had to depend on each other.

We began this lesson by watching Centropa’s film, Survival in Sarajevo, and walking through the traveling exhibition of the same name, which we brought to our school.

In these two back-to-back lessons, students will explore Jewish values, Jewish identity, and the question of how to balance their ethnic/religious identities with being a citizen of the world.  Students will watch Centropa's film, Survival in Sarajevo: Friendship in a Time of War - the powerful story of how a small group of Holocaust survivors and their children worked with their Christian and Muslim neighbors to save each other and their city during the Bosnian war of the early 1990s.

Using "Survival in Sarajevo" to discuss cross-cultural tolerance. Developed and tested in a school in Nahariya, Israel.