Lesson Plans

World History Class Centropa Exam

This is a Centropa final exam for  10th grade students. The students will use interviews and albums. There have already been several steps along the path--this is the destination.

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Teofila Silberring and Janusz Korczak. Living in the Cracow and Warsaw Ghetto.

In this lesson written and tested by Anna Janina Kloza from Bialystok, the class participants learn about the situation of people in the Warsaw and Cracow Ghetto with a particular...

Mieczyslaw Weinryb: Exploring my past

Mariann Szamosi: Post-War Jewish Life in Hungary

In this lesson plan, Centropa films are used to introduce students to Jewish life in Hungary during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with a focus...

Guidelines for Creating a Centropa Lesson

Your guide for a successful lesson plan.

ESL Lesson on Silberring film

This lesson uses Centropa's film "So that memory doesn't die" about the life of Krakow-born Teofila Silberring, who survived the Jewish ghetto of Krakow, and Auschwitz, with the help of...

Using Centropa's database for a student exhibit

Survival in Sarajevo: Cooperation and Conflict

Survival in Sarajevo: Cooperation and Conflict: The History of Southeast Europe, Yugoslavia and the Arab-Israeli Conflict.

Piroska Hamos: Lesson Plan on Post-War Jewish Life in Hungary

The goal of this lesson plan on "Post-War Jewish Life in Hungary" is to explore Jewish life in Hungary before WWII. Life in Hungary for Jews during period of the...

Arnold Fabrikant: Lesson plan for English teachers

Using the Detinko film with Amos Oz

This lesson plan describes how an Israeli school used Centropa´s Detinko film with Amos Oz's book "A tale of love and darkness". Both depict Jewish pre-war life in Rovno.

Haya-Lea Detinko: Lesson plan for ESL teachers

Kurt Brodmann: "Viennese Jewry In The 1930s"

In this lesson about "Viennese Jewry in the 1930’s", students will learn about early Zionism and Jewish life in Austria in the first part of the 20th Century.  Students...

Border Jumping project Jewish School Berlin