18
Mar
2016
Three Promises: Personal Stories as Historical Material
This lesson plan uses group work, creative writing, and multimedia to teach subjects including History, Literature, Civics, Social and Political Education, Philosophy, Language etc. It is also useful in discussions about multiculturalism, war and peace, the Second World War, crimes against humanity, genocide and holocausts (e.g. the Jewish Holocaust), modern European history, moral and ethical issues, struggle for survival, etc.
21
Oct
2014
Love on a Paper Airplane
The class watched Centropa’s film Love on a Paper Airplane as an introduction to the love story of Judit Kinszki’s parents, and the early modern photography of Imre Kinszki (Judit’s father). We then explored the images in Kinszki’s work and examined what made them modern and how they were characteristic of modern photography and art in Europe in the early 20th century.
02
Apr
2013
Max Uri: Viennese Jewry in the 1930s
In this lesson, students will learn about early Zionism and Jewish life in Austria in the first part of the 20th Century. Students will engage themselves with materials on the Nuremberg Laws, the Anchluss, Kristallnacht (November Pogrom), and the American response to Jewish immigration from Europe in the 1930s.
02
Apr
2013
Max Uri: Kristallnacht
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 also gain insight into the power of multimedia presentations of personal stories.
