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.
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Holocaust
Resistance during the Holocaust: An Exploration of the Jewish Partisans
Deepen students’ understanding of resistance with these lessons that bring together the firsthand accounts of former Jewish partisans and historical context on the partisan movement.
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Rescue
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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Holocaust
Resistance
Legacy
Teaching Who Will Write Our History
Invite students to reflect on why it matters who tells our stories as they view a documentary film about the profound courage and resistance of the Oyneg Shabes in the Warsaw ghetto.
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Belonging
Three adults from different perspectives reflect on their experiences growing up in Germany under Hitler.
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Choosing to Rescue
Sociologist Nechama Tec explores the story of one woman, Stefa Dworek - a Polish Christian - and her motivation to shelter a Jewish woman during the Holocaust. If caught rescuing a Jew during this time, Stefa would have faced imprisonment or worse. Yet about 2 percent of the Polish Christian population chose to hide Jews in a nation known for its long history of antisemitism.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Holocaust
Chuck Out the Men (Raus mit den Männern)
"Chuck Out the Men" (Raus mit den Männern) is a Cabaret song composed by Friedrich Hollaender in 1926 during the Weimar Republic in Germany.
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Commentary on Samuel Bak Painting Envelope
Commentary by Professor Lawrence Langer. Painting by Samuel Bak. See full size painting.
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Commentary on Samuel Bak Painting Stronghold
Commentary by Professor Lawrence Langer. See full size painting.
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Democracy & Civic Engagement
Holocaust
It's All a Swindle (Alles Schwindel)
"It's All a Swindle" (Alles Schwindel) by Mischa Spoliansky and Marcellus Schiffer is a Cabaret song from the Weimar Republic in Germany, 1931.
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Langer Commentary Study for Micro and Macro
Commentary by Professor Lawrence Langer. Artwork by Samuel Bak. See full size artwork.
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Langer Commentary Study for Reconstruction
Commentary by Professor Lawrence Langer. Painting by Samuel Bak. See full sized painting.
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