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Traces of Memory. Saved from Oblivion.

History

The educational project Teaching the Holocaust was introduced in the fourth class of vocational school at the General-Technical School in Lubliniec for students in their last year of high school...

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Teofila Silberring and Janusz Korczak. Living in the Cracow and Warsaw Ghetto.

History

In this lesson written and tested by Anna Janina Kloza from Bialystok, the class participants learn about the situation of people in the Warsaw and Cracow Ghetto with a particular...

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Working with Centropa's Photos

History

The Centropa Exhibition Jewish Witnesses to the Polish Century was at our school for 9 days (5 – 14 November 2012) At that time 14 classes, which means over 400...

Teofila Silberring Walking Tour

other projects

Except for those years during the Holocaust, Teofila never lived anywhere else but Cracow, and in her interview, she takes us on a tour of the city-to all the places...

Centropa Ebook: Chava Pressburger

History
Mrs. Chava Pressburger lives in both Israel and the Czech Republic. It was in Prague, in her cozy and tastefully furnished apartment, where the interview took place. Mrs. Pressburger impressed...

Centropa eBook : Leontina Arditi

History
Leontina Arditi is a part of the history of Bulgarian theater. She was among the first to successfully introduce one-(wo)man performances, or the so called ‘theater with one actor’, as...

Centropa eBook: Elza Rizova

History

Click below to download the eBook on Elza Rizova

Centropa eBook: Lilli Tauber

History
 
Lilli Tauber and her husband, Max Tauber, welcome me in their communal apartment in Viennas 19th district. We had already spoken on the telephone and were curious to finally...

Centropa ebook of Emilia Ratz

History

Shortly after the beginning of our interview, Mrs. Emilia Ratz, called Mila by her friends, impresses me with her exceptional life-story and her humor, which overshadows the tragic of...

Schindler's List: Another perspective

History

Using Centropa’s film, So Memory Doesn’t Die, about the life of Teofila (Toska) Silberring – a Schindler Jew - this lesson enables those using Steven Spielberg’s film Schindler’s List in...

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Breda and Matilda Kalef: "Three Promises"

History
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Haya-Lea Detinko: Centropa, Russia and Zionism

History

This lesson plan uses resources from the Centropa website including some of Ursula Reinhart-Döring’s lesson plan from the teachers’ section. Because her lesson was designed for ESL kids, Margaret Chasan...

"Rescued Memories": Creating a student exhibition

History

In this lesson plan, Cynthia Peterman illustrates how she used the Centropa database to create a student exhibition.

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“Of Shtetls and Cities”: Creating a student exhibition

other projects

A student-created exhibition based on Centropa

photo taken by Jonathan Ah Kit, on April 28, 2000, CC licensing

Centropa - A model for creative and project-based learning

other projects
This presentation will help...
1) ... define/describe Project-Based Learning (PBL)
2) ... show PBL’s implementation in a classroom
3) ... demonstrate Centropa’s connections to Project-Based Learning
a.As an example of...
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Jewish Soldiers: Identity of the Jews from Transylvania in the 20. Century

History
This lesson is an opportunity to make the students understand the situation of the minorities, namely the Jewish minority, who lived in the 20th century South-Eastern Europe, where nationalism soared...
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Laszlo Nussbaum: Identity of the Jews from Transylvania in the 20. Century

History
This lesson is an opportunity to make the students understand the situation of the minorities, namely the Jewish minority, who lived in the 20th century South-Eastern Europe, where nationalism soared...
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European Jewry and the Holocaust

History
In this honors class, students play a major role in teaching their peers about the Holocaust. After the teacher covers the period from the rise of modern anti-Semitism to the...
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Understanding European Jewish life beyond the periods of catastrophe

History

This lesson assists students in appreciating the contours of modern Jewish history.  Using a Centropa film, students synthesize their learning from film, oral history interview, and standard history textbooks.

Here...

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A place to call home

History

Using nine Centropa films and one feature length documentary about the Jewish sports club of Vienna, as well as conducting personal interviews, students will examine factors affecting immigration in their...

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Digital Story Telling

other projects

This is a project that combines a variety of skills and tools with modern technology to create films similar to those produced by Centropa.

Students produce digital stories, using narratives...

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Mieczyslaw Weinryb: Exploring my past

History
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Max Uri: Viennese Jewry in the 1930s

History

In this lesson, students will learn about early Zionism and Jewish life in Austria in the first part of the 20th Century. Students will engage themselves with materials on...

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Max Uri: Kristallnacht

History

In this lesson students will use a variety of the written stories from the Centropa website to gain an individualized and specific perspective on the events of Kristallnacht.  Students will...

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Lilli Tauber: The Kindertransports

History

This is a one-class lesson on the Kindertransport.  Following a group viewing of the Lilli Tauber film, students were self-directed by a PowerPoint presentation to explore the politics behind the...

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Erna Goldmann: From Frankfurt to Tel Aviv Interactive Film Script

other projects

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...

Teofila Silberring - So that memory doesn't die

other projects

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...

Lilli Tauber: Viennese Jewry In The 1930s

History

In this lesson, students will learn about early Zionism and Jewish life in Austria in the first part of the 20th Century. Students will engage themselves with materials...

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"Culminating project": Student films about omitted topics

History

This lesson plan outlines a project, in which students were asked to make a short Centropa-style documentary about a topic that had to be omitted from class due to time...

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Lilli Tauber: European Jewish Life and Death 1929-1949

History

Using the film, “A Suitcase Full of Memories,” this lesson plan helps students explore the topic of the Kindertransport and the impact of the Holocaust on children who survived and...

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