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Video Making Guidelines

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An easy, step-by-step guide for teachers and students how to make videos on "The Jewish history of my town".

A material prepared in cooperation with the Galicija Jewish Museum in...
University

School Tableau Project

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It is a Austro-Hungarian tradition for schools to take group photographs of graduating classes, and post them in shops around town and throughout the school for everyone to take pride...

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Homeland Project

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This project will introduce you to editing in Adobe Premiere Pro, while letting you explore a social/historical issue. This issue affected many Jews in the 20th Century and is...

University

Righteous Remembrances

History

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...

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Civil Society - Whose Job is it to Guarantee We All Live in One?

History

This 2015 Milton Wolf Prize winning lesson is designed to introduce students to the UN Declaration of Human Rights and to help them realize the need for individual civic responsibility...

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From "The Other" to Another

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Too often, individuals or groups are labelled as the Other. The other is someone outside the group, they are considered diffferent; they are not wanted; they are labelled and...

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Cross-cultural projects: Holocaust and Civil Rights

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This was an on-going, cross-cultural project consisting of several min- lessons taught over the course of the school year, designed and taught by Ilijan Kuzmanovic (Republika Srbska) and Jeff Renihan (US)...

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A story of one human life as a history lesson - Photos as a key to understanding the past.

History
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Sarajevo Project for Jewish Day School Communities

History

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...

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When citizens take action in times of crisis

Civic activism

 A lesson plan and Project for 9th grade Civic Studies, inspired by the Centropa film: "Survival in Sarajevo"    

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Survival in Sarajevo —— La Benevolencija

History

Course lesson taught in: when filling in for absent colleagues  (happening with high frequency —after all it’s Italy

This lesson plan can be adapted to nearly every context and...

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Ladino, language of the Sephardic Jews

Literature

LADINO, LANGUAGE OF THE SEFARDIC JEWS

Grade of class: middle and junior high
Course lesson taught in: transversal during Spanish language and English language lessons
Category of lesson...

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Lesson plan to "Teofila Silberring: So that Memory doesn't die"

History

Subject : “We know ourselves only to the extent we have been tested”   (W.Szymborska).

Human attitudes towards different life situations.

How my school used the Polish Centropa exhibition

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History of Holocaust Final Exam Project

History

This final exam project culminates a semester of study and storytelling about Jewish life in Central Europe and the Holocaust that started with students presenting their own stories in picture...

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Life During World War II

History

This is a history project but because we want our students ultimately to teach each other, we started with an introductory video conference during which students asked each other questions...

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A Meeting of Minds, Culture, and Penfriends!

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In this cross-cultural project with students in North Carolina and Slovakia, our students are paired with a penfriend based on shared interests. The NC students wrote letters, but penfriends will...

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Then and Now

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Students bring in a family photograph they like. This can be from a vacation, a holiday celebration, a family life cycle event, any photograph that includes the student. In class...

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Telling Jewish Stories using Wordle

History

Students are each given a short, multimedia film from Centropa to watch. As they watch – they may need to watch it more than once – they are to write...

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Memory, Food and Senses

Sociology

In this lesson, which I adapt to different courses, students explore Centropa’s web page with Jewish recipes curated by Jayne Cohen, and read In Memory’s Kitchen, a collection of...

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A Survivor's Story: Dr. Richard Bugajer

History

Students in my class and Melanie Shaul’s class in Hadera, Israel, read the autobiography of Dr. Richard Bugajer, My Shadowlife. Melanie and I met his widow in Vienna, on...

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Love on a Paper Airplane

History

The class watched Centropa’s film Love on a Paper Airplane as an introduction to the love story of Judit Kinszki’s parents, and the early modern photography of Imre Kinszki (Judit’s...

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Postcards to Sarajevo

History

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. Each...

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Cross-cultural Cookbook Project

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We began by watching Centropa’s film So Memory Doesn’t Die, about Teofila Silberring’s harrowing experience during the Holocaust. She was saved from starvation by a kind family friend who gave...

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Centropa exchange: Kielce and Greensboro

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This project was carried out in two schools: VI Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Juliusza Słowackiego in Kielce  (Poland) and Southeast Guilford High School (USA). In the beginning, students made intro videos...

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Exploring Bitola through the film about Beno and Roza

History

The city as an interactive classroom.

A research project about Jewish life in Bitola before WW2, consisting of six 40 min. lessons and centering around the film "The years make...

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Using the Beno and Roza film with Macedonian students

History

This lesson is intended for Macedonian students in the final year of primary education (aged 14-15) The content of this lesson is part of the civic education curriculum, topic –...

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Lesson Plan | The Years Make Their Own

History

Centropa lesson

Centropa film: The Years Make Their Own

Teacher: Biljana Shotarovska

School: Blaze Koneski Primary school – Skopje, Macedonia

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Project Work | Student Exhibition

History

My town’s Jewish history – digital contents, modern technology and teaching

by:
Petar Pop Arsov Primary School
Skopje, Macedonia

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Jews In The Balkans

History

A presentation about the Jews in the Balkans, by Liljana Stefanovska

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