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Using the Lewin film in ESL class

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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...

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The Years Make Their Own: Teaching ESL/History

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My escape from Prague

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History

A 9. évfolyamon a történelemórákon 20. századi történelm tanításához,  Jindrich Lion című filmjének felhasználásával. 
Cél: a tanulók felismerjék, hogy a történelmi események nem csupán egy fejezet a történelemkönyvben. Tanulmányozni fogják...

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Irregular Cookbook

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History

Tantárgyi célok és készségekkel kapcsolatos célok
A tanulóknak meg kell érteniük, hogy a szóbeli történelem; különösen a családi történetek is a történelmünk részei. Sokat tanulhatunk más emberek élettörténetéből.
Ezeknek a...

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"Three promises": A project about the Kalef family

History

This project uses family photos from the Kalef family to trigger a discussion about memory.

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Every Photo tells a Story: A Project about Franziska Smolka

History

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...

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Interviewing a Picture

History

Using Edward Serotta's photographs from the synagogue in Sarajevo during the Bosnian war of the 1990s, students will study several pictures carefully, answer questions and use what they learn in...

Let All Who are Hungry Come and Eat

History

In these two back-to-back lessons, students will explore Jewish values, Jewish identity, and the question of how to balance their ethnic/religious identities with being a citizen of the world.  Students...

We Remember

History

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...

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So that Memory Doesn't Die

History

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...

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Multimedia Yom Hashoah Presentation

History

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...

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Storytelling and Filmmaking to Remember Holocaust Survivors

History

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...

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Using Stories to Connect with Jewish History

History

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...

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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...

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I Was There - A Journey into a child's past

History

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...

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Food and Family: combining 20th & 21st century Jewish cooking

History

Students interviewed and took pictures of a relative while they prepared a favorite family recipe. The students then created a PowerPoint presentation that included their relative preparing the dish; background...

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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...

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Picturing Kristallnacht

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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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We speak for them

History

6th Grade SS/LA Project 

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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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The women who taught me everything - Interactive Film Script

History

The interactive film scripts combine the scripts of the Centropa Films with the links metioned in the Study Guides, thus marking various historical, cultural and geographical references.

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The History of the Bulgarian Jewry - Interactive Film Script

History

The interactive film scripts combine the scripts of the Centropa Films with the links metioned in the Study Guides, thus marking various historical, cultural and geographical references.

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Married twice in a lifetime - Interactive Film Script

History

The interactive film scripts combine the scripts of the Centropa Films with the links metioned in the Study Guides, thus marking various historical, cultural and geographical references.

You can use...

Surviving Stalin's Gulag - Interactive Film Script

History

The interactive film scripts combine the scripts of the Centropa Films with the links metioned in the Study Guides, thus marking various historical, cultural and geographical references.

You can use...

The Story of the Brodmann Family- Interactive Film Script

History

The interactive film scripts combine the scripts of the Centropa Films with the links metioned in the Study Guides, thus marking various historical, cultural and geographical references.

You can use...

"Three Promises" Interactive Film Script

History

The interactive film scripts combine the scripts of the Centropa Films with the links metioned in the Study Guides, thus marking various historical, cultural and geographical references.

You can use...

Lesson plan on the Centropa film "Three Promises"

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European History Map - interactive film script

History

The interactive film scripts combine the scripts of the Centropa Films with the links metioned in the Study Guides, thus marking various historical, cultural and geographical references.

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Guler Orgun - Interactive Film Script

History

The interactive film scripts combine the scripts of the Centropa Films with the links metioned in the Study Guides, thus marking various historical, cultural and geographical references.

You can use...

Centropa eBook: Lily Arouch

History

"Lily Arouch, 77, has beautiful light blue eyes and wears glasses. She lives in a big apartment in the suburbs of Athens. Since September 2005 she shares her apartment...