Students view a short film about a third-generation descendant of Holocaust survivors and explore the questions it raises about obligation, memory, and family.
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A World Made New: Human Rights After the Holocaust
Students explore the historical basis for the modern human rights movement by examining the codes of ancient societies.
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A World in Transition: Emancipation, Acculturation, and Antisemitism
Students examine the pressures on European Jews as they moved away from the shtetls to larger urban centers at end of the nineteenth century.
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Analyzing Nazi Propaganda
Students define propaganda and practice an image-analysis activity on a piece of propaganda from Nazi Germany.
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Analyzing and Creating Memorials
Students learn about several Holocaust memorials around the world in preparation to design their own memorial.
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Analyzing the Effects of World War I
Students use maps of the world before and after World War I to make inferences and predictions about the ways the war changed the world.
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Children’s Emigration Project
Students discover the complexities of Martha Sharp's rescue project by analyzing historical correspondences.
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Choices in Weimar Republic Elections
Students read fictional biographies of German citizens and make hypotheses about the citizens' voting choices in the Weimar elections.
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Choosing to Participate
Students use the “levers of power” framework to identify ways they can bring about positive change in their communities.
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Confronting the Suffering Caused by the Nazis
Students use journaling and group discussion to respond to emotionally-challenging diary entries of a Jewish teenager confined in a Nazi ghetto.
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Creating Student Projects
Using a project-based learning approach, students produce a museum exhibition that displays the stories of different partisans.
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Dismantling Democracy
Students examine the steps the Nazis took to replace democracy with dictatorship and draw conclusions about the values and institutions that make democracy possible.
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