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Zasady tworzenia scenariusza lekcji Centropy

How my school used the Polish Centropa exhibition

A Meeting of Minds, Culture, and Penfriends!

In this cross-cultural project with students in North Carolina and Slovakia, our students are paired with a penfriend based on shared interests. The NC students wrote letters, but penfriends will...

Then and Now

Students bring in a family photograph they like. This can be from a vacation, a holiday celebration, a family life cycle event, any photograph that includes the student. In class...

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...

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STOLETÍ ČESKO-ŽIDOVSKÝCH PŘÍBĚHŮ

VÝBĚR Z ROZHOVORŮ CENTROPY V ČESKÉ REPUBLICE

Centropa Насоки за Наставен Час (Македонски јазик)

Centropa exchange: Kielce and Greensboro

This project was carried out in two schools: VI Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Juliusza Słowackiego in Kielce  (Poland) and Southeast Guilford High School (USA). In the beginning, students made intro videos...

Centropa Lesson Guidelines

We ask all teachers who submit their lesson to use these guidelines when writing up your lessons to submit for uploading to the website. Following these guidelines helps everyone who...

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

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...

My Family and My Roots: A Film Project

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...

The Great Centropa Treasure Hunt

Between 2000 and 2010, Centropa interviewed 1,200 Jewish Holocaust survivors still living in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and the Balkans. Centropa then digitized 22,000 of their...

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.

You can watch ther video by clicking here 

Sećanje na žrtve Holokausta

Pošto učenici uče jako malo o Holokaustu na časovima istorije, mislila sam da treba nešto raditi i na času odelj.starešine. Gimnazijalci imaju i sociologiju i građansko vaspitanje kao i psihologiju...

Stereotipi, predrasude i ljudska prava

Utvrđivanje nekih osnovnih pojmova iz gradiva I razreda Građanskog vaspitanja i upoznavanje sa novim pojmovima, proširivanje znanja iz oblasti kršenja ljudskih prava, uočavanje važnosti aktivnog odnosa prema istoriji, usvajanje novih...

How to Use Centropa resources in the English Language Classroom

This lesson plan consists of a Powerpoint presentation that you can download  below.

Дневно планирање | Граѓанско образование

Дневно планирање
Граѓанско образование

Училиште: Наум Наумовски Борче
Наставник: Лилјана Стефановска
Паралелка...

Извештај за спроведени активности во основното училиште „ Петар Поп Арсов“, Скопје по семинар одржан на 26-28 Октомври 2012 во реализација на:

Извештај за спроведени активности во основното училиште „ Петар Поп Арсов“, Скопје...

Map of Centropa's Sephardic Interviews

photo taken by Horia Varlan, on November 14, 2008 , CC licensing

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Interwar Hungarian Photographers Project

Interwar Hungary produced some of the best modernist photographers: Imre Kertesz, Robert Capa, and Laszlo Moholy Nagy. All were Jewish. Another great Jewish Hungarian photographer of the period was Imre...

Of Shtetls and Cities

This project is a student museum about Czech Jewry. Students research the lives of Czechoslovakian Jews between World War One and World War Two.  The Museum consists of panels dedicated...

Cooking in the classroom: To cook or not to cook!

This lesson uses the interview from Hedvig Endrei, from Hungary. In a labor camp during the war, Mrs. Endrei and her friends wrote out a book of recipes and she...

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Jewish Surnames

The goal of these lesson plans, which should take about 16 hours of class time + home work, is for each student to produce a short biographical film on the...

Creating a Student Museum

As of 2013, for three years students at the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy in Philadelphia have created, curated and been docents for museums they have made using Centropa...

Begleitheft für Centropas Sarajewo Ausstellung

In diesem Begleitheft zu Centropas Sarajewo Ausstellung finden SchülerInnen

a) Arbeitsimpulse und Leitfragen zu den einzelnen Panels,

b) ein Glossar mit Erklärungen zu schwierigen Begriffen, die in der Ausstellung vorkommen.

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...

Map of Centropa's Sephardic Interviews

photo taken by Horia Varlan, on November 14, 2008 , CC licensing