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Scavenger huntHistory, Religion / Ethics
This scavenger hunt was designed for Mitzvah Day 2021 where the theme was "Gedenken", Remembrance. The students were 8th graders and had to look for information about Centropa interview information... |
8 | |
Jewish Life in Germany: the Erna Goldmann StoryHistory
Jewish life was part of Germany and German culture in the 19th and beginning 20th century, but disappeared with the Nazi-Regime in 1933. Using the Erna Goldmann film, From Frankfurt...
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10, 11, 9 | |
Centropa Biography Film/Stolpersteine AssignmentHistory, 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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6, 7, 8, 9 | |
Getting to know and “adopting” my neighborhoodReligion / Ethics, 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...
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10, 11, 12, 9 | |
Three Promises: Personal Stories as Historical MaterialHistory
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... |
11 | |
Life During World War IIHistory
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... |
11 | |
Then and Nowother projects
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... |
10 | |
Telling Jewish Stories using WordleHistory
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... |
10 | |
Memory, Food and SensesSociology
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... |
10 | |
A Survivor's Story: Dr. Richard BugajerHistory
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... |
10 | |
Love on a Paper AirplaneHistory
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... |
10 | |
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...
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10, 11, 12, 8, 9 | |
Using the Lewin film in ESL classHistory
Herbert Lewin - stories of my life compared with "Address Unknown" The story of Herbert Lewin reflects the life of a secular Jewish family with its gentile neighbors in Vienna... |
10 | |
Roots in Spain, Trees in SarajevoHistory
This lesson aims to enlighten students about Sephardic history in the Balkans, and was originally taught in the context of a Jewish day school in the United States. The Jews... |
11 | |
I Was There - A Journey into a child's pastHistory
In this project, students in groups of 3-4 will read a memoir, diary or biography about a European child whose life was turned to chaos during the Shoah, 1933 to... |
6 | |
Choosing to be Jewish Family Education ProgramReligion / Ethics
During this session families will learn the stories of several individuals who survived the Holocaust and then stayed in Europe after the war. They saw the destruction of the societies... |
11 | |
Lo Ta'amod: A Jewish Values Family Education ProgramReligion / Ethics
In this family education program, we apply Centropa’s stories from our past to reflect on our values, and translate that learning into action for the present and future. The goal... |
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We speak for themHistory
6th Grade SS/LA Project |
6 | |
Using Amos Oz with the Detinko filmLiterature
An Introduction to Centropa’s film about Haya-Lea Detinko. This lesson uses excerpts from A Tale and Love and Darkness by the great Israeli novelist, and the film about Haya-Lea Dinko... |
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Working with Centropa's PhotosHistory
The Centropa Exhibition Jewish Witnesses to the Polish Century was at our school for 9 days (5 – 14 November 2012) At that time 14 classes, which means over 400... |
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Centropa Ebook: Chava PressburgerHistory
Mrs. Chava Pressburger lives in both Israel and the Czech Republic. It was in Prague, in her cozy and tastefully furnished apartment, where the interview took place. Mrs. Pressburger impressed...
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Centropa eBook: Lilli TauberHistory
Lilli Tauber and her husband, Max Tauber, welcome me in their communal apartment in Viennas 19th district. We had already spoken on the telephone and were curious to finally...
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Centropa ebook of Emilia RatzHistory
Shortly after the beginning of our interview, Mrs. Emilia Ratz, called Mila by her friends, impresses me with her exceptional life-story and her humor, which overshadows the tragic of... |
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Juci Scheiner: Foundations of Halacha and AggadaReligion / Ethics
In this lesson about the "Foundations of Halacha and Aggada", Students will engage in a unit exploring various definitions of Jewish community. They will study both classical (Biblical and Rabbinic)... |
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ESL Lesson on Silberring filmHistory
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... |
10 | |
Using Centropa's database for a student exhibitHistory
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10 | |
Piroska Hamos: Lesson Plan on Post-War Jewish Life in HungaryHistory
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... |
10 | |
Using the Detinko film with Amos OzHistory
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. |
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