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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...

11

"Three Promises" - Lesson Plan

History

Aims:

-       Identifying causal relations between characters and events

-       Helping the students develop critical thinking skills through the analysis of historical sources (a film)

-       Raising students’ consciousness...

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Exhibition: A century of Jewish culture or “We are all the same by the different ways”

other projects

The main theme:

(1) To bring a different culture to the students by showing them that it is not so much different.

(2) The secondary theme is an exhibition...

11

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...
10, 11, 12, 8, 9

My Family and My Roots: A Film Project

other projects

In the framework of the Roots project, students choose a family member or a Jewish person, and use modern technologies to create a film presenting the story of that person...

11

Roots in Spain, Trees in Sarajevo

History

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

History and the Power of Personal Stories

History

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

Choosing to be Jewish Family Education Program

Religion / 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

Lesson plan on the Centropa film "Max Uri - Looking for Frieda"

History

Using the Centropa film "Max Uri -Looking for Frieda", which is a touching love story, together with Emily Dickinson's poem "I Held a Jewel", you can expose your students to...

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

History

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...

11

European Jewry and the Holocaust

History
In this honors class, students play a major role in teaching their peers about the Holocaust. After the teacher covers the period from the rise of modern anti-Semitism to the...
11

Digital Story Telling

other projects

This is a project that combines a variety of skills and tools with modern technology to create films similar to those produced by Centropa.

Students produce digital stories, using narratives...

11

Mieczyslaw Weinryb: Exploring my past

History
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Max Uri: Kristallnacht

History

In this lesson students will use a variety of the written stories from the Centropa website to gain an individualized and specific perspective on the events of Kristallnacht.  Students will...

11

Survival in Sarajevo: cross-cultural tolerance

History

Using "Survival in Sarajevo" to discuss cross-cultural tolerance. Developed and tested in a school in Nahariya, Israel.

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Rosa Rosenstein: Exploring My Past: An Autobiographical Project

History
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Kurt Brodmann: "Exploring My Past: An Autobiographical Project

History
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