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Teaching Schindler's List
Help your students be thoughtful, engaged viewers of Schindler's List with these lesson plans that foster reflection and make contemporary connections to the history.
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A Matter of Obedience?
Learn about psychologist Stanley Milgram’s experiments on obedience and the insight they offer into the motives of Nazi perpetrators.
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Art and Politics
Discover how the Nazis used art as a tool to promote their ideology by celebrating what they perceived as authentic German art and eliminating art they deemed degenerate.
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Choices that Define Us
Explore three stories of choices people made during World War II and consider their complexities, their impact, and what they can teach about human behavior.
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Experiencing Apartheid
Writer Mtutuzeli Matshoba provides a vivid account of life under apartheid through the story of his friend who was forcibly ejected from his home.
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Interpreting a Painting
Read commentary and tips from Professor Lawrence Langer on interpreting paintings and artwork.
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Intervention in Spain
Learn about Nazi Germany’s participation in the Spanish Civil War and analyze Pablo Picasso’s painting Guernica.
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Posters from the Freedom Struggle in the 1980s
Look at a selection of anti-apartheid posters that show the diverse range of messages and issues covered within the movement.
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Propaganda at the Movies
Learn how the Nazis used film to create an image of the “national community” and to demonize those they viewed as the enemy, such as the Jews.
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Refugee Blues
Read W.H. Auden’s poem “Refugee Blues” about the plight of Jewish refugees during the Holocaust.
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