Renée Saltiel and Solon Molho grew up in the greatest Sephardic Jewish community of them all, Salonica, or Thessaloniki, in today's Greece. Around 90,000 Jews lived there in its heyday, 50,000 lived there before the war. During the Second World War, the Germans rounded up and deported the city's Jews and almost none were left. Only a handful returned. This is the story of two Jews who did manage to survive, thanks to a Spanish diplomat and some very brave Christian families.
Renée Molho - A Bookstore in Six Chapters
Lesson plans for this film
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| Title | Language | For grades | Documents | |
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| Getting to know and “adopting” my neighborhood etika, hit- és erkölcstan, History A year-long project that includes several parts—making videos and a photograph tour of the local Jewish history in Thessaloniki, creating a Holocaust library for the school, creating an exhibition for students to present their work to the school. The goal: to help students understand the sociopolitical motives that drive people into committing atrocities. I believe that my students learned to recognize prejudiced attitudes, racist behaviors and also developed skills in order to face them off in the future. |
en | 10, 11, 12, 9 | ||
| Renee Molho –Α bookstore in six chapters History The Jewish community of Thessaloniki was one of the Jewish communities in Europe that were completely destroyed during the Holocaust (94% of its members were murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau). After the war only 1.950 Jews were counted in Thessaloniki. This lesson plan, which is based on Centropas’ film “Renee Molho –Α bookstore in six chapters“, provides the tools which students need to learn about this lost community and its people who participated in the historical events, people with specific names, jobs, lives and not simply anonymous victims. |
en | 10, 11, 9 | ||
| Why Study History? History The goal of this lesson is to introduce students to the major reasons for studying History (any History course will be appropriate with this lesson). Having said that, this lesson is meant to be used at the beginning of a year long course. Feel free to modify the lesson to fit your specific needs. |
en | 10, 11, 12, 8, 9 |