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Centropa Biography Film/Stolpersteine Assignment

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European Jewish life

digital story telling

biographical films

Antisemitism

Concentration camp

Centropa films

Holocaust

Jewish life before WWII

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.

Looking back: A child’s recollections of the Holocaust through the eyes of the children of today

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In this cross-cultural project, three Jewish school teachers assigned their students to read the same text using slightly different assignments. Students in all classes produced art in response to the text and sent the art to Thessaloniki, where their work was displayed in the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki. This project can be done with any text or Centropa story.

Sára Szilágyi

Project Manager for Hungarian programs

szilagyi [at] centropa.org

Sára studied Minority and Ethnic Studies at ELTE University in Budapest. She has been working in NGOs and education projects about social issues for many years. She really enjoys facilitating trainings with non-formal education methods and supporting young people in creating their own initiatives. She was part of different Jewish youth and educational organizations in Hungary and also the Roma Genocide Remembrance Initiative. At Centropa she is the coordinator of the programs in Hungary.

Getting to know and “adopting” my neighborhood

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 students to present their work to the school. The goal: to help students understand the sociopolitical motives that drive people into committing atrocities. I believe that my students learned to recognize prejudiced attitudes, racist behaviors and also developed skills in order to face them off in the future.

Greek Jewry of Thessaloniki

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Educational resources

The subject of the script concerns the acquisition of knowledge of local history, focusing our attention on the multiculturalism of Thessaloniki and especially on the existence of a prosperous Jewish Community until World War II. To serve that goal, two films from the Centropa organization are used together with the website of the Jewish Museum of Thessaloniki. The aim of the script is to give students the opportunity to acquire basic knowledge so that they can take part in the creation of a short film on the Holocaust.

Diary and Memoir Project

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biographical films

Holocaust

Survivor stories

An interdisciplinary lesson is designed to expose students to important responses to historical and social events and enable students to explore the following statement of inquiry: In times of social crisis man seeks meaning and value in his life through expression. This lesson uses Centropa’s film Return to Rivne, among other primary sources, and was designed for distance learning.

Ninja Stehr

Deputy Director; Manager of Public History Programs & Diversity and Inclusion Officer (currently on maternity leave)

stehr [at] centropa.org

Ninja Stehr studied History at the University of Hamburg with a focus on media, gender, and culture in the 20th century. After graduating with a Master degree, she did a traineeship in a studio for exhibition design in Berlin, where she specialized in museum education and editing. She continued to work as a freelancer for exhibition projects and in event management until she joined Centropa in 2020. She is now coordinating education projects as a project manager and is functioning as the Deputy Director and Diversity&Inclusion Officer in Centropa Hamburg.

Could you be righteous?

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Holocaust

Students will understand who were Righteous Among the Nations – people who not only saved Jews but risked their lives while doing that. They will be introduced the basic stages in the development of moral reasoning (Kohlberg’s interpretation). Holocaust dilemmas will help students understand the challenges that non-Jews have been faced with. They will understand the circumstances in which people lived during World War II through personal stories from 3 Centropa’s films as well as through research and analysis on the Righteous from Krusevac.

Jewish People and Gentiles

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Our textbooks have very little information on the Holocaust. Students are familiar with the impacts of the Holocaust in Germany and Poland but they know very little about Eastern European countries. Many Jewish people were saved and taking the time to learn about the Gentiles allows our students to see how different people around the world helped.

Forgiveness

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moral questions

Post-war

relationships with gentiles

Students will explore the concept of “Forgiveness” while studying the Holocaust. Using a Centropa Film and the book “The Sunflower: On The Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness," students will explore their own attachment to “home” and the existential question of “Would you forgive if someone took what was dearest to you away?”

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