Through diary entries and historical documents, students learn about the complex rescue networks that cooperated to save Jewish children’s lives during the Holocaust.
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Membership, Identity and Traditional Jewish Texts
Students reflect on how a traditional Jewish text sheds light on the story of a high school student’s experience with belonging.
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Menachem's Challenge
Students view a documentary film about an Orthodox Jewish father and his sons' journey through Poland and reflect on how each character is shaped by religion and worldview.
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Music as a Survival Tool
Students broaden their understanding of resistance by exploring examples of music as spiritual and physical defiance to Nazi oppression.
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Nuremberg Remembered Documentary: A Lesson on Guilt and Responsibility
Students take on a comprehensive examination of the Nuremberg trials and evaluate how well the trials achieved justice.
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Obedience and Traditional Jewish Texts: The Milgram Experiment
Students explore obedience by drawing connections between traditional Jewish texts and Milgram’s psychological experiment on this behavior.
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Post-Viewing: Building a Toolbox against Hate
Students create a "toolbox" of the skills, attitudes, and actions that are necessary to respond to and prevent hatred from taking hold in their communities.
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Post-Viewing: Responding to Hate in Our Communities Today
Students begin to relate Schindler's List to the contemporary world by examining recent stories of racial hatred in Charlottesville and Germany.
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Post-Viewing: The Persecution of the Rohingya and the Persistence of Genocide
Students reflect on how the Holocaust can educate us about our responsibilities to confront genocide and injustice today.
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Pre-Viewing: Establishing the Historical Context for Schindler’s List
Students are introduced to the history of ideas, events, and decisions that shaped the world of Schindler’s List.
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Pre-Viewing: “Take This Giant Leap”: Preparing to Teach Schindler’s List
Students prepare for their study of Schindler's List by creating a contract establishing a thoughtful, respectful, and caring classroom community.
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Race and Space
Students examine the Nazi ideology of “race and space” and the role it played in Germany’s aggression toward other nations, groups, and individuals.
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