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"Three promises": A project about the Kalef familyHistory
This project uses family photos from the Kalef family to trigger a discussion about memory. |
8 | |
Every Photo tells a Story: A Project about Franziska SmolkaHistory
When engaging students with history in general, and with the history of National Socialism and the Holocaust in particular, teachers should not limit themselves to how European Jews died during... |
8 | |
We RememberHistory
Students make a 3-5 minute film that tells the story of a family member. We start the project by showing Centropa films as models for short films that tell a... |
8 | |
Multimedia Yom Hashoah PresentationHistory
In this unit, selected 8th grade students worked with three teachers to prepare a multimedia presentation for the middle school using Centropa materials in observance of Yom Hashoah. The... |
8 | |
Storytelling and Filmmaking to Remember Holocaust SurvivorsHistory
In this project Jewish middle/high school students explore Jewish life in Europe, the Holocaust, and post-war immigrant life in America through the experiences of local Holocaust survivors from Central or... |
8 | |
Using Stories to Connect with Jewish HistoryHistory
This lesson asks students to research family history and to create a project that tells the story of his/her family origins. Using the Centropa films about Max Uri and Jozsef... |
8 | |
Cooking in the classroom: To cook or not to cook!other projects
This lesson uses the interview from Hedvig Endrei, from Hungary. In a labor camp during the war, Mrs. Endrei and her friends wrote out a book of recipes and she... |
8 | |
History and the Power of Personal StoriesHistory
In this family history project, students conduct oral histories with family members with the objective of creating a final project about their family history and understanding how an individual's family... |
10, 11, 12, 7, 8, 9 | |
Preserving Jewish Memory: A Family Education ProgramReligion / Ethics
Just as we pass the Torah from one generation to the next at bar and bat mitzvahs, so do we pass family stories dor l’dor (from generation to generation). Stories... |
6, 7, 8 | |
Picturing KristallnachtHistory
This lesson commemorates Kristallnacht by having students examine how it was a turning point in the treatment of Jews in Germany and Austria. Taught within the context of the 8th grade Holocaust curriculum, the goal of the lesson is to personalize for students what happened by starting with their own photographs as a way connect to young Jews in Jews in Germany and Austria before the Nazi rise to power. We then used Centropa interview excerpts and photographs to learn first-hand memories of Kristallnacht.
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8 | |
Lesson plan on the Centropa film "Three Promises"History
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8 | |
"Culminating project": Student films about omitted topicsHistory
This lesson plan outlines a project, in which students were asked to make a short Centropa-style documentary about a topic that had to be omitted from class due to time... |
8 | |
Family Film UnitHistory
For more details please visit: http://blogs.jds.org/grade8humanities/2012/06/18/family-film-unit/ |
8 | |
Survival in Sarajevo - Interviewing a PictureHistory
"A picture is worth a thousand words" In this lesson, students look carefully pictures from the Sarajevo exhibition / film; they read the captions and reflect about what they...
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8 | |
Piroska Hamos: Foundations of Halacha and AggadaHistory
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)... |
8 | |
Ernst Galpert: Foundations of Halacha and AggadaHistory
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... |
8 |
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