Human Rights Violations
The Artifacts Collection of Yad Vashem’s Museum is home to more than 27,000 items donated over the years by Holocaust survivors, their families, and various organizations. It includes a wide […]
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The Ghetto Fighters’ House Talking Memory Series presents: Artist as Witness: The Holocaust Art of David Friedmann in the Lodz Ghetto Guest Speaker: Miriam Friedmann Morris David Friedmann (1893-1980) depicted […]
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Classrooms Without Borders cohort visits Children’s Village, develops friendships and greater appreciation for home READ ABOUT IT HERE
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Reflections on the Past, Present, and Future of Holocaust Studies.
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Our honored guest was Charles Person, one of two surviving Freedom Riders to have made the trip in its entirety from Washington DC to New Orleans. The songs of the movement sustained him, he said, especially so when he knew that he should have felt fearful, and no song strengthened him more than “Oh Freedom.”
Read MoreThis lesson addresses an Essential Question that is common within secondary history courses: How can we know what really happened in the past? It was written to mark two occasions: […]
Read MoreThis lesson provides a structure for educators to guide students in comparing two texts: Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz (estimated Lexile 1210) and Journey with Howard Chandler, an app available […]
Read MoreThis lesson addresses Essential Questions that are common within Secondary ELA courses: What makes a text effective for its purpose? How are stories from other places and times about me? […]
Read MoreOverview Using the Short Film Masel Tov Cocktail students will explore concepts of identity and stereotypes. They will also explore the progression of antisemitism and continuation of implicit bias in […]
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A clear and well-informed understanding of the Holocaust, the paradigmatic genocide, may help educators and students understand other genocides, mass atrocities, and human rights violations. Teaching about mass suffering only […]
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