Lesson Plans

Telling Jewish Stories using Wordle

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...

Memory, Food and Senses

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...

A Survivor's Story: Dr. Richard Bugajer

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...

Love on a Paper Airplane

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...

Postcards to Sarajevo

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...

Cross-cultural Cookbook Project

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...

Why Study History?

The NEMESIS Cookbook Project

Students of EC №141 "ORT" participate in CJN Cookbook project. They do their own research and try to make the dish.

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Using the Lewin film in ESL class

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...

So that Memory Doesn't Die

In this 45 minute lesson, high school students explore two important aspects of survivors’ lives: 1) rebuilding their lives after living through horrors and losing their families, and 2) sharing...

History and the Power of Personal Stories

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...

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.

This...

Schindler's List: Another perspective

Using Centropa’s film, So Memory Doesn’t Die, about the life of Teofila (Toska) Silberring – a Schindler Jew - this lesson enables those using Steven Spielberg’s film Schindler’s List in...

"Rescued Memories": Creating a student exhibition

In this lesson plan, Cynthia Peterman illustrates how she used the Centropa database to create a student exhibition.

Jewish Soldiers: Identity of the Jews from Transylvania in the 20. Century

Laszlo Nussbaum: Identity of the Jews from Transylvania in the 20. Century

A place to call home

Using nine Centropa films and one feature length documentary about the Jewish sports club of Vienna, as well as conducting personal interviews, students will examine factors affecting immigration in their...

Max Uri: Viennese Jewry in the 1930s

Lilli Tauber: The Kindertransports

This is a one-class lesson on the Kindertransport.  Following a group viewing of the Lilli Tauber film, students were self-directed by a PowerPoint presentation to explore the politics behind the...

Lilli Tauber: Viennese Jewry In The 1930s

In this lesson, students will learn about early Zionism and Jewish life in Austria in the first part of the 20th Century. Students will engage themselves with materials...

Kitty and Otto Suschny: "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...

Kitty and Otto Suschny: Discussion points for the film.

Kitty and Otto Suschny: Lesson plan on Kindertransport

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.

Jindrich Lion: Discussion points for the film

Herbert Lewin: Discussion points for the film

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...

Kurt Brodmann: Discussion points