Max Uri -- Looking For Frieda, Finding Frieda

The classic story of boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy finds girl.
Max Uri was living the comfortable life of a Viennese Jewish lad when he fell for Frieda Haber. They met at a Jewish summer camp, then ran into each other the following summer on the Adriatic coast.
But the rise of the Nazis got in the way and Max, who had fled to Palestine in 1939, despaired of ever finding Frieda again. Until that day he was walking down a street in Tel Aviv...
Max and Frieda Uri died in August 2009.

Lesson plans for this film

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Centropa Biography Film/Stolpersteine Assignment
History, other projects
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.
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Max Uri: Viennese Jewry in the 1930s
History
In this lesson, students will learn about early Zionism and Jewish life in Austria in the first part of the 20th Century. Students will engage themselves with materials on the Nuremberg Laws, the Anchluss, Kristallnacht (November Pogrom), and the American response to Jewish immigration from Europe in the 1930s. Students will focus on the importance of physical culture engendered by Zionist Max Nordau and the concept of 'Muskeljuden'.  Students will use the sporting club Hakoah Vienna (“The Strength” in Hebrew) as a case study.  Using Centropa videos, students will learn about rising anti-Semitism in Austria, and the personal experiences of Jews during the Anchluss and Kristallnacht. Students will encounter material about the US response to Jewish immigrants from Europe and subsequent Jewish migration to Palestine, Shanghai, and England. 
en 10
Max Uri: Kristallnacht
History
In this lesson students will use a variety of the written stories from the Centropa website to gain an individualized and specific perspective on the events of Kristallnacht.  Students will also gain insight into the power of multimedia presentations of personal stories. 
en 11
The family - The root gives life to a tree. The family gives life to mankind.
History
Grade of Class:primary school students aged 11-12 students 13-14 and their parents Number of students in one class: 15 to 17The familyThe root gives life to a tree. The family gives life to mankind. By Dragan Gjorgievski Subject  taught: Ethics and Ethics in religion    
en 6
Jüdische Lebensgeschichten filmisch aufbereitet – Unterrichtsmaterial für Berufsschulen
History
Die hier präsentierten zwölf Unterrichtsentwürfe richten sich speziell an Berufsschulen. Sie basieren auf den Kurzfilmen von Centropa, sowie der DVD „Das Vermächtnis“ von _erinnern.at_ und kreisen um österreichisch-jüdische Lebensgeschichten des 20. Jahrhunderts. Die SchülerInnen werden eingeladen, sich mit der Geschichte dieser Menschen auseinanderzusetzen, und diese mit ihrer eigenen Geschichte, ihren eigenen Interessen und Fragen in Beziehung zu setzen.Der Unterrichtsentwurf basiert auf der Auseinandersetzung mit biographischen Texten sowie der Beschäftigung mit dem dreiminütigen Centropa-Film über Max Uri. 
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Lesson plan on the Centropa film "Max Uri - Looking for Frieda"
History
Using the Centropa film "Max Uri -Looking for Frieda", which is a touching love story, together with Emily Dickinson's poem "I Held a Jewel", you can expose your students to learning history, poetry and culture.Through an individual life story of a couple falling in love and then being separated by the war, your students will experience and learn about Jewish life in Vienna prior to WWII.The poem is used as an analogy to love, or to what is meaningful in life .
en 11