Through a close reading of diary entries, students consider how terror and intimidation shaped the experience of Jews living under German occupation.
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Holocaust
Read and Reflect: Hunger in an Anonymous Girl’s Diary
By reading diary entries of a girl living in the Łódź ghetto, students consider the effects of hunger and deprivation on the bodies, minds, and spirits of those who lived in ghettos.
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Holocaust
Read and Reflect: Intellectual and Creative Life in Yitskhok Rudashevski’s Diary
Through a close reading of diary entries, students learn about the intellectual and cultural life of young people living in the Vilna ghetto during the Holocaust.
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Holocaust
Read and Reflect: Relationship with Rescuers in Otto Wolf’s Diary
Through a close reading of diary entries, students consider the complex relationships that surfaced between non-Jews and Jews living under German occupation.
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Holocaust
Read and Reflect: Survival in Alice Ehrmann’s Diary
Students read the personal reflections of two young Holocaust survivors on the cost of surviving and the responsibility to bear witness.
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Holocaust
Refugees and Rescuers: The Courage to Act
Students explore the intertwined personal stories of Jewish refugees who attempted to flee to the United States and the American rescuers who intervened on their behalf.
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Genocide & Mass Violence
Regret to Inform: Legacies & Memories of the Vietnam War
After viewing the documentary film Regret to Inform, students examine the impact of the Vietnam War on the lives of war widows from all sides of the conflict.
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Holocaust
Responding to a Refugee Crisis
Students think about the responsibilities of governments as they consider how countries around the world responded to the European Jews trying to escape Nazi Germany.
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Justice & Human Rights
Responding to the Rohingya Crisis
Students place this ongoing crisis in historical context, view footage from a refugee camp, and reflect on survivor testimony.
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Holocaust
Responding to the Stories of Holocaust Survivors
Students create a "found poem" drawing on words from the testimony of a survivor of the Holocaust.
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Responses to the 1930s Refugee Crisis
Students activate their thinking around being an upstander and their responsibility toward others in light of the Sharps' mission work in Czechoslovakia.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Social Media and Ferguson
Students explore the role of social media in Ferguson, apply information verification strategies to social media posts, and develop strategies for becoming critical consumers and sharers of social media.
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