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Holocaust Memorial Day: Reflections on One Day
Gain ideas and inspiration for how to mark Holocaust Memorial Day in your classroom.
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Single Session
Our single professional learning sessions are designed to easily fit into your day. Typically one hour or less, these sessions explore timely and relevant topics including teaching strategies, current events, and more.
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This professional learning event is self-paced and will be delivered virtually. When you register, you will receive instructions for how access and participate in the event.
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History
The Holocaust
In this one-hour webinar you will gain ideas, inspiration, and resources for how to mark Holocaust Memorial Day. This session will provide you with classroom-ready practical materials and teaching strategies that will support your students' intellectual and emotional engagement with the Holocaust and reflect on the theme of Holocaust Memorial Day 2022, ‘One Day’. In addition to engaging with historical case studies, the resources will enable your students to make connections to the world today and think about how they can be Upstanders against hate and injustice.
Supporting Materials
- Teaching Holocaust and Human Behavior
- Contracting
- Journals in a Facing History Classroom
- Youth in Society Anticipation Guide – PDF
- Video: Changes at School under the Nazis
- Video: Friendship and Betrayal
- Youth in Nazi Germany Reading Set 1 (UK) – PDF
- Youth in Nazi Germany Reading Set 2 (UK) – PDF
- Kristallnacht
- Phases of the Holocaust - PDF
- Video: The Nazis in Vilna
- Jewish Ghettos in Eastern Europe
- Main Nazi Camps and Killings Sites
- We May Not Have Another Chance (UK) – PDF
- Diary from the Łódź Ghetto - PDF
- Collection: Teaching Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust
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