Using a project-based learning approach, students produce a museum exhibition that displays the stories of different partisans.
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Jewish History and Memory: Why Study the Past?
Students prepare for their study of the Holocaust by reflecting on the ways in which memory is an integral part of Jewish identity.
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Jewish Identity and the Complexities of Dual or Multiple Belongings
Students continue to explore the question “Who am I?” by examining the concept of dual or multiple identities and reflecting on their own identities as Jews.
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Jewish Life before the Holocaust
Students learn about pre-war Jewish life and compare it with today’s diaspora in order to reflect on how modernity can impact tradition.
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Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust
Students define the term resistance and then learn about the different ways that Jews resisted the Nazis during the Holocaust.
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Jewish Theological Dilemmas After the Holocaust
Students enter the conversation about the concept of “theodicy" through activities that allow them to explore the themes of faith and doubt after the Holocaust.
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Sonia Orbuch: Becoming a Partisan
Using a role identifying activity, students analyze the various roles undertaken by a teenage partisan during the Holocaust.
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Understanding Resistance
Students learn about the concept of resistance as they are introduced to firsthand experiences of the extraordinary Jewish partisans.
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Vitka Kempner: Identity and Resistance
Students consider how identity, and in particular how age and gender, shaped a partisan's actions.
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Genocide & Mass Violence
Connections for Investigation One
- What is empathy? What is compassion? When have you felt empathy and/or compassion for something or someone? What provoked this feeling in you? Did you do anything as a result?
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Connections for Investigation Two
- If you had the opportunity to interview Nicholas Kristof, what would you want to ask him?
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Bullying & Ostracism
Dennis Barr
Dennis Barr is the Director of Program Evaluation at Facing History and Ourselves, as well as a psychologist. He is a Lecturer of Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He was the principal investigator for the Carnegie Corporation of New York-funded research entitled, Intergroup relations among youth: a study of the impact and processes of Facing History and Ourselves. The Ostracism Case Study emerged from this project. Barr has published articles based on his research on social and ethical development and risk taking behavior in adolescents.
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