These activities accompany my FREE Holocaust Victims' Identity Cards and are designed to help students make a personal connection with the victims of the Holocaust. These activities could be used before a novel study or a history lesson. This lesson can be printed, used digitally, or a combination o...
Teaching the Holocaust while reading a Holocaust-related novel can be challenging; there is so much information to be shared, but you don't want to the topic to become overwhelming, distant, or unreal to students. Analyzing photographs from the time period, assigning students the identity of a Holocaust victim, and a mini-lesson on nutrition are all ways to help students make personal connections with the Holocaust.
Karl Höcker’s album shows SS officers at events ranging from ceremonies to social gatherings, in stark contrast to other photographs from Auschwitz. Learn more.
"With the creation of his 1993 film Schindler's List, I have always felt that Steven Spielberg has given us a geniune masterpiece. With its penetrating portrayal of Oskar Schindler's heroic rescue of hundreds of Holocaust victims, the film delivers a powerful moral message for generations of viewers. The original score for the film included a memorable performance by violinist Itzhak Perlman playing the main musical theme. For many years, I have thought that cellists might hals bring their own particular magic to this music, and I am proud to offer this adaptation that I have made expressly for them." - John WilliamsDifficulty: A4/A5NOTE: This version is for cello and piano. It is also arranged for violin and piano and two violins (violin and viola) and piano.
Teaching the Holocaust while reading a Holocaust-related novel can be challenging; there is so much information to be shared, but you don't want to the topic to become overwhelming, distant, or unreal to students. Analyzing photographs from the time period, assigning students the identity of a Holocaust victim, and a mini-lesson on nutrition are all ways to help students make personal connections with the Holocaust.
Eva Kor and her twin sister Miriam were only 10 years old when they were subjected to experiments by Nazi doctor Josef Mengele
Teaching the Holocaust while reading a Holocaust-related novel can be challenging; there is so much information to be shared, but you don't want to the topic to become overwhelming, distant, or unreal to students. Analyzing photographs from the time period, assigning students the identity of a Holocaust victim, and a mini-lesson on nutrition are all ways to help students make personal connections with the Holocaust.
Teaching the Holocaust while reading a Holocaust-related novel can be challenging; there is so much information to be shared, but you don't want to the topic to become overwhelming, distant, or unreal to students. Analyzing photographs from the time period, assigning students the identity of a Holocaust victim, and a mini-lesson on nutrition are all ways to help students make personal connections with the Holocaust.
"Never shall I forget the little faces of the children, whose bodies turned into wreaths of smoke beneath a silent blue sky" - Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor.
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Do you aware that the Holocaust resulted in the deaths of about six million Jews? Many people are unaware of the mass murder that occurred
Help your students make a personal connection with the victims of the Holocaust. This activity could be used before a novel study or a history lesson. For this activity the students will be using a link to explore the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website. Using a slide to "sign up" (so th...
Teaching the Holocaust while reading a Holocaust-related novel can be challenging; there is so much information to be shared, but you don't want to the topic to become overwhelming, distant, or unreal to students. Analyzing photographs from the time period, assigning students the identity of a Holocaust victim, and a mini-lesson on nutrition are all ways to help students make personal connections with the Holocaust.
"Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future." — Auschwitz survivor and author Elie Wiesel
While I was planning my unit over Night by Elie Wiesel, I wanted to find something that would make the students connect with individual survivors and victims. I came across The Butterfly Project, and I knew it would be the perfect way to not only connect, but to visually represent lives lost during the Holocaust.… Continue reading The Butterfly Project: A Meaningful Addition to Any Holocaust Book Study
The first year I taught Night by Elie Wiesel, I was struck by the sense of "unfinished-ness" my students felt upon completion of the text. They said they felt like there should be something "more." We talked about it, and realized that what we really wanted was a way to reflect and remember, and we weren't quite sure how to go about doing so. As it often does during times of uncertainty, poetry presented itself as a fitting option. In my research, I came across the book I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from the Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944 This book includes writing, poetry, and artwork from the concentration camp Theresienstadt, or Terezin. Though Terezin was a concentration camp, the Nazis also used it as a "model settlement" to show high-ranking officials and even, on one occasion, to deceive the Red Cross. Out of the 15,000 children who passed through Terezin, fewer than 100 survived. The fact that the words and drawings of some of these children are preserved in this book makes it a powerful artifact to consider. I created this project in response to our study of symbols in Night as well as Pavel Friedmann’s now unforgettable poem "The Butterfly." How We Remember and Honor the Victims of the Holocaust: The Butterfly Project created by Lauren Colletti is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
Ruth Franklin on Jane Yolen’s “Mapping the Bones,” which reflects the way the Holocaust-fiction genre she helped to create has changed.
Looking for a meaningful way to honor Holocaust victims? With respect and dignity, Pavel Friedmann's poem, The Butterfly, guides students through a close reading of the text, a paired short answer response, and the option to create their own butterfly in honor of Holocaust victims. The teachers in my middle school found this activity to be a meaningful closure to a Holocaust unit. If you’re looking to sample poetry close reading, CLICK HERE to sign up and download my free poetry sub plans. Download Includes: Full-text - including a full-color image that can be used as a poster. Close reading instructions Short answer response prompt and response template Butterfly clipart for participating in the Butterfly Project Detailed teacher directions. Looking for more poetry ideas? Check out the Middle School Poetry Analysis Bundle, which includes 9 different poetry resources! You might also be interested in using my poetry analysis strategies that pair with any poem! If you're looking for other literacy ideas, let's connect! - Find more literacy ideas at www.mrspricewrites.com. - Follow on mrspricewrites on Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, and Facebook. I appreciate all TPT followers - follow me here!
While I was planning my unit over Night by Elie Wiesel, I wanted to find something that would make the students connect with individual survivors and victims. I came across The Butterfly Project, and I knew it would be the perfect way to not only connect, but to visually represent lives lost during the Holocaust.… Continue reading The Butterfly Project: A Meaningful Addition to Any Holocaust Book Study
Auschwitz was a network of Nazi concentration and extermination camps built and operated in the annexed Polish land during World War II. Auschwitz I was first constructed to hold Polish political prisoners who first arrived in May 1940. Plans for the total eradication of the Jewish population of Europe, eleven…
October 7, 1944. On this date, the Sonderkommando working at Crematorium IV in Auschwitz-Birkenau rose in revolt.
Of all the concentration camps in history, Auschwitz was the deadliest. Here are 29 photos that show what it's really like to visit the Auschwitz memorial.
Confused, exhausted and vulnerable, they may have somehow survived and are about to be free, but these chilling colour photographs show that for victims
1. Gay male victims of the Holocaust, who wore the downward-facing pink triangle, were still considered to be criminals when they were freed from concentration camps. They were often sent back to prison to serve out their terms.
Timothy Snyder’s examination of the Holocaust is chilling, timely and instructive
Lise Akar and other family and vintage photos from the past. Put faces to the names of your loved ones at AncientFaces.
