Learn about regional Nazi party leader Julius Streicher.
Learn about regional Nazi party leader Julius Streicher.
Introduce your students to the life and work of German satirist Kurt Tucholsky, which was active during the Weimar era.
Käthe Kollwitz was an exceptional artist who was a champion of the poor and those who struggled in society. Born in East Prussia in 1867, Kollwitz came from a middle class family.
These three lessons are centered on excerpts from the documentary film Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness by Joseph Dorman. The film looks at Sholem Aleichem’s life and the culture of the shtetl through several of his short stories, among them "On Account of a
Listen to music recordings and narration paired with The Children of Willesden Lane book and accompanying teacher's guide.
Maximilian Harden, whose original last name was Witkowski, was an actor and also the writer and editor of Die Zukunft, a political, cultural, and theatrical weekly.
Explore profiles of diplomats who played a major role in efforts to rescue thousands of Jews during the Holocaust.
View photos by Rodrigo Abd depicting the aftermath of the Guatamalen civil war which took place between 1960-1996.
View images from photographer Sara Terry detailing the aftermath of the 1992–1995 war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
View photographs by Pep Bonet depicting life after the civil war in Sierra Leone from 1991 to 2002.
View images by photographer Kathryn Cook exhibiting the aftermath and legacy of the Armenian genocide of 1915.
Ruth Fischer was a member of the creative Jewish Eisler family, which produced political activists and creative artists. She was a leader of the German Communist Party (KPD) during the 1920’s and fought battles both within the party and within the international communist movement to keep the KPD from falling under the control of Moscow.