An online companion to the book The Children of Willesden Lane. This powerful true story of Lisa Jura, one of 10,000 young refugees who fled Nazi-occupied Vienna on the Kindertransport as a child before World War II.
An online companion to the book The Children of Willesden Lane. This powerful true story of Lisa Jura, one of 10,000 young refugees who fled Nazi-occupied Vienna on the Kindertransport as a child before World War II.
Explore with your students the lives of Jews before World War II and examine music as a form of resistance.
War is only half the story. Use these evocative photographs with your students to explore the human stories that emerge in the aftermath of war and violence.
This rich collection of readings, artwork, primary documents, and biographies, documents the creativity and catastrophe of Germany’s Weimar Republic (1919-1933). How did individual choices shape the events that led to the rise of the Third Reich and collapse of democracy?
In this unit students experience how art can serve as a tool to understanding history by analyzing paintings by renowned artist and Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak.
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.
View photos by Rodrigo Abd depicting the aftermath of the Guatemalan Civil war.
Photographer Carlos J. Ortiz: Too Young to Die Interview with WBEZ
See more resources from photographer Danny Wilcox Frazier.
See more resources on The Armenian Genocide.
See more resources on the Guatemalan Civil War and its aftermath.
See more resources on the civil war in Sierra Leone that took place from 1991 to 2002.