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Jewish Cemeteries in Europe

The central aim of this project is the surveying of vulnerable Jewish cemeteries in Central and Eastern Europe.

Promises

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The broad theme of these lessons is human connection, and a more specific theme is promises: how people keep promises, or don’t, and what happens in either situation. Students are asked to look at:

· individual promises they make and want to keep for themselves

· the commitment we make to keeping the traditions of our communiites;

· the promises made in international treaties and what happens when those treaties are broken.

Return to Rivne: Stations Lesson

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European Jewish life

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Holocaust

HOLOCAUST; RIGHTEOUS AMONG THE NATIONS; RIGHTEOUS GENTILE

Jewish history

Jewish life before WWII

Using Return to Rivne as the centerpiece, this lesson uses stations for students to explore the geography, pre-war life, Roma people, the family that hid Shelly and Raya, the toys Shelly and Raya made, statistics, and Holocaust terms for students to explore the context of this story. Google Earth and Google Voyager are used to virtually visit Rivne.

Hannah - Challenging and debunking antisemitic myths

With antisemitism becoming more prevalent across Europe, the HANNAH project focuses on education about Jewish history, remembering the Holocaust and fighting against antisemitism in Germany, Greece, Serbia, and Poland, through capacity-building trainings, awareness raising activities and policymaking recommendations.

What We Live is History

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history lesson

“What We Live is History,” can be used in social studies, history, English, and other classes. This lesson challenges students to consider that their lives now will one day be considered history, and using Centropa’s film Return to Rivne they explore the differences between primary and secondary sources. The final product asks students to document for history their experiences living in the pandemic of the last year. This lesson can be used either in remote or in-person teaching. We hope you can adapt it to your own classes!

The Jewish Life in Poland in the 20th Century

English Project

Submitted by Eden Degerzi and Yuval Ravid-Tal (11th Grade)

English Teacher and Project Designer: Sylvia Asher

Ironi "Tet" High- School, Tel-Aviv

The Jewish Life in Poland in the 20TH Century as Presented in Centropa’s Film about HAYA LEA-DETINKO and Amos Oz’s Book A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS

This project is based on a Centropa film about the life of Haya –Lea Detinko (http://www.centropa.org/centropa-cinema) and

Jewish Life in Germany: the Erna Goldmann Story

Jewish life was part of Germany and German culture in the 19th and beginning 20th century, but disappeared with the Nazi-Regime in 1933. Using the Erna Goldmann film, From Frankfurt to Tel Aviv, this lesson teaches students about the history of Jews in Germany, Jewish religious life, Zionism, and antisemitism with the goal of conveying the idea that students learn that Jewish life should be a part of Germany. In addition, this lesson explores the concept of "home" and "homeland."

Centropa Biography Film/Stolpersteine Assignment

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European Jewish life

digital story telling

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 Coordinator

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.

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