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I Was There - A Journey into a child's past

History

In this project, students in groups of 3-4 will read a memoir, diary or biography about a European child whose life was turned to chaos during the Shoah, 1933 to...

6

Food and Family: combining 20th & 21st century Jewish cooking

History

Students interviewed and took pictures of a relative while they prepared a favorite family recipe. The students then created a PowerPoint presentation that included their relative preparing the dish; background...

7

Of Shtetls and Cities

other projects

This project is a student museum about Czech Jewry. Students research the lives of Czechoslovakian Jews between World War One and World War Two.  The Museum consists of panels dedicated...

Cooking in the classroom: To cook or not to cook!

other projects

This lesson uses the interview from Hedvig Endrei, from Hungary. In a labor camp during the war, Mrs. Endrei and her friends wrote out a book of recipes and she...

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History and the Power of Personal Stories

History

In this family history project, students conduct oral histories with family members with the objective of creating a final project about their family history and understanding how an individual's family...

10, 11, 12, 7, 8, 9

Preserving Jewish Memory: A Family Education Program

Religion / Ethics

Just as we pass the Torah from one generation to the next at bar and bat mitzvahs, so do we pass family stories dor l’dor (from generation to generation). Stories...

6, 7, 8

Choosing to be Jewish Family Education Program

Religion / Ethics

During this session families will learn the stories of several individuals who survived the Holocaust and then stayed in Europe after the war. They saw the destruction of the societies...

11

Lo Ta'amod: A Jewish Values Family Education Program

Religion / Ethics

In this family education program, we apply Centropa’s stories from our past to reflect on our values, and translate that learning into action for the present and future. The goal...

Picturing Kristallnacht

History
This lesson commemorates Kristallnacht by having students examine how it was a turning point in the treatment of Jews in Germany and Austria. Taught within the context of the 8th grade Holocaust curriculum, the goal of the lesson is to personalize for students what happened by starting with their own photographs as a way connect to young Jews in Jews in Germany and Austria before the Nazi rise to power. We then used Centropa interview excerpts and photographs to learn first-hand memories of Kristallnacht.
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We speak for them

History

6th Grade SS/LA Project 

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Using Amos Oz with the Detinko film

Literature

An Introduction to Centropa’s film about Haya-Lea Detinko. This lesson uses excerpts from A Tale and Love and Darkness by the great Israeli novelist, and the film about Haya-Lea Dinko...

Jewish Surnames

other projects

The goal of these lesson plans, which should take about 16 hours of class time + home work, is for each student to produce a short biographical film on the...

Lesson plan on the Centropa film "Max Uri - Looking for Frieda"

History

Using the Centropa film "Max Uri -Looking for Frieda", which is a touching love story, together with Emily Dickinson's poem "I Held a Jewel", you can expose your students to...

11

Creating a Student Museum

other projects

As of 2013, for three years students at the Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy in Philadelphia have created, curated and been docents for museums they have made using Centropa...

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The women who taught me everything - Interactive Film Script

History

The interactive film scripts combine the scripts of the Centropa Films with the links metioned in the Study Guides, thus marking various historical, cultural and geographical references.

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The History of the Bulgarian Jewry - Interactive Film Script

History

The interactive film scripts combine the scripts of the Centropa Films with the links metioned in the Study Guides, thus marking various historical, cultural and geographical references.

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Married twice in a lifetime - Interactive Film Script

History

The interactive film scripts combine the scripts of the Centropa Films with the links metioned in the Study Guides, thus marking various historical, cultural and geographical references.

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Surviving Stalin's Gulag - Interactive Film Script

History

The interactive film scripts combine the scripts of the Centropa Films with the links metioned in the Study Guides, thus marking various historical, cultural and geographical references.

You can use...

The Story of the Brodmann Family- Interactive Film Script

History

The interactive film scripts combine the scripts of the Centropa Films with the links metioned in the Study Guides, thus marking various historical, cultural and geographical references.

You can use...

Ranana Malkhanova - Interactive Film Script

The interactive film scripts combine the scripts of the Centropa Films with the links metioned in the Study Guides, thus marking various historical, cultural and geographical references.

You can use...

"Three Promises" Interactive Film Script

History

The interactive film scripts combine the scripts of the Centropa Films with the links metioned in the Study Guides, thus marking various historical, cultural and geographical references.

You can use...

Lesson plan on the Centropa film "Three Promises"

History
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European History Map - interactive film script

History

The interactive film scripts combine the scripts of the Centropa Films with the links metioned in the Study Guides, thus marking various historical, cultural and geographical references.

You can use...

Guler Orgun - Interactive Film Script

History

The interactive film scripts combine the scripts of the Centropa Films with the links metioned in the Study Guides, thus marking various historical, cultural and geographical references.

You can use...

World History Class Centropa Exam

other projects

This is a Centropa final exam for  10th grade students. The students will use interviews and albums. There have already been several steps along the path--this is the destination.

This...

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Map of Centropa's Sephardic Interviews

other projects

photo taken by Horia Varlan, on November 14, 2008 , CC licensing

Centropa eBook: Ilona Seifert

other projects

My grandfather, Bernáat Riemer was born in Obuda. He studied bakery as an apprentice and then became a baker's journeyman. He worked diligently, and later bought the bakery where he had worked...

Centropa eBook: Lily Arouch

History

"Lily Arouch, 77, has beautiful light blue eyes and wears glasses. She lives in a big apartment in the suburbs of Athens. Since September 2005 she shares her apartment...

Centropa eBook: Rachel Randvee

History

"Rachel Randvee is not tall; she is an elegantly dressed lady with a lovely, open face. She is very friendly and hospitable and likes talking to people. She lives...

Centropa eBook: Kurt Kotouc

History

Kurt Kotouc lives in a small apartment in Prague, in a pleasant neighborhood close to the city centre. Mr Kotouc is a very elegant and friendly gentleman who comes...