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 Allan Drummond, Escape from Paris, 2005, courtesy Allan Drummond and Institute for Holocaust Education, Omaha, NE. Image courtesy ExhibitsUSA. |
his resource features pre-visit activities that will prepare students for the VHEC school program, introduce them to Margret and H.A. Rey, the author and illustrator of the Curious George books and provide them with background information on the history of France during the Holocaust.
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The Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust: Download the Teacher's Guide
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Broken Threads: The Destruction of the Jewish Fashion Industry in Germany and Austria Broken Threads: A Teacher's Guide explores the period of the Holocaust beginning in 1933 and concluding with the concentration camps. Concerned with issues of cultural and human loss, the Teacher's Guide deals with themes of propaganda, boycotts, intimidation and humiliation, nationalism, Aryanization, Nuremberg Laws, Kristallnacht, deportations and emigration. The guide includes archival photographs, fashion drawings and newspaper clippings, as well as suggestions for classroom activities and discussion. ($5) |
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Canada and The Holocaust: Social Responsibility and Global Citizenship Canada and The Holocaust: Social Responsibility and Global Citizenship is a resource guide developed by the VHEC, Canadian Jewish Congress and the BC Ministry of Education for Social Studies 11. It is designed to provide support for approximately seven hours of classroom instruction with resources including: timeline, glossary, handouts, bibliography, instructional procedures and background information on the Holocaust. The guide focuses on the impact of Canada’s immigration policies, which directly affected Jews during the Holocaust. Divided into a three-part examination of the pre-war period, the period during the war and post-war immigration policies, resources include newspaper clippings, letters, diary entries, and speeches. A guide for Social Studies 11 Teachers. ($6) |
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GREECE AND THE HOLOCAUST: The Teacher’s Guide Greece and the Holocaust: The Destruction of a Community provides an historical overview of the Jewish community in Greece before, during and after the Holocaust. In three months in 1943, the Nazis used nineteen train transports to deport much of the Greek Jewish population, extinguishing centuries of Jewish culture. The Teacher’s Guide explores themes of cultural loss, deportation, rescue and resistance in relation to the Holocaust. The Guide features archival photographs, primary source documents and classroom activities.
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The Holocaust: The Holocaust: Social Responsibility and Global Citizenship is a resource guide developed by the VHEC, Canadian Jewish Congress and the BC Ministry of Education for Social Studies 6. It is designed to provide support for approximately eight hours of classroom instruction with resources including: charts, reading materials, case studies, a glossary and a time line, touching upon themes of discrimination, human rights, and global citizenship in order for students to gain an understanding of social responsibility. A guide for Social Studies 6 Teachers. ($6) |
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Korczak and the Children Janusz Korczak was one of the world’s first advocates of children’s rights. On August 6, 1942 he became a heroic figure. On that day, this famous and beloved doctor, writer and educator was forced by the Nazis to gather together the two hundred orphans under his care in the Warsaw ghetto and report for deportation. Refusing all offers for his own rescue, he led the children with quiet dignity to the tram that would take them to their deportation to Treblinka, an extermination camp where they were murdered. Janusz Korczak & The Children of the Warsaw Ghetto examines the life of Janusz Korczak, the experiences and tragic fate of the children in the Warsaw ghetto and looks at how the violation of children’s rights during the Holocaust is reflected in the global fight for children’s rights in the world today. |
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Life Unworthy of Life:
Life Unworthy of Life Nazi Euthanasia Crimes at Hadamar: A Teacher's Guide , deals with the issues of ethics and social justice involved in the history of Operation T-4, the plan to kill mentally and physically disabled German citizens, as well as those deemed "undesirable" by the Third Reich. The Teacher's Guide addresses themes of eugenics, euthanasia, propaganda and dehumanization. It also touches upon how Nazi medicine has cast a shadow on genetic research and contemporary policies through student readings, discussion questions, a glossary, a timeline and a list of books and videos. ($5) |
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One Candle: Light One Candle A Child's Diary of the Holocaust: A Teacher's Guide, is based on the lost secret diary of a young boy, Solly Ganor, who survived internment in the Kovno Ghetto, the slave labour camp of Landsberg-Kaufering and the Dachau death march. The Teacher's Guide presents excerpts from Solly Ganor's writings as well as discussion questions, suggestions for multi-disciplinary classroom activities with opportunities for individual study and small group work. ($5) |
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Maus: A Memoir of the Holocaust MAUS: A Memoir of the Holocaust: A Teacher's Guide deals with the two-volume Pulitzer Prize winning book by graphic artist Art Spiegelman that tells the story of the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of the artist's father, Vladek. Maus serves as an example of how the artistic process can become a form of social justice by exploring the Holocaust through Vladek's experiences of segregation, hiding, deportation, the working of Auschwitz, resistance, liberation and the aftermath of the war. |
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In 1946 Streicher, the publisher of the virulently anti-Semitic newspaper Der Stürmer, was convicted of "crimes against humanity" for his role in inciting the persecution and murder of Jews through the dissemination of hate propaganda. Using primary source material as evidence, students will reenact Steicher's trial, learning about the Nuremberg tribunals' processes and contemporary significance. The VHEC is pleased to offer all material necessary for conducting a mock trial in the classroom: Download a Teachers' Guide for the student mock trial Download a PowerPoint presentation of evidence used in the mock trial (grades 7-9) Download a PowerPoint presentation of evidence used in the mock trial (grades 10-12) |
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On the Edge of the Abyss On the Edge of the Abyss explores the Holocaust through examination of art by survivors about their Holocaust experience. The Teacher’s Guide is focused on drawings by Ella Liebermann-Shiber, which she created after liberation when she was 17. Liebermann-Shiber spent what would have been her school years in Bedzin Ghetto and Auschwitz. The Teacher’s Guide, which includes images, background readings and classroom activities, explores art of the Holocaust and related themes of remembrance, eyewitness testimony and human rights. The lesson plans are designed for both art and social studies teachers.
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Open Hearts - Closed Doors Open Hearts Closed Doors: A Teacher's Guide tells the story of the 1,123 Jewish war orphans who came to Canada from the devastation of Europe between 1947-1949. The material also presents a snapshot of Canada's treatment of other immigrant groups. The Teacher's Guide provides historical background materials in the form of summaries, timelines, glossaries, bibliographies, videographies and classroom activities. Hands-on documentary evidence includes: photos, orphan identification cards, correspondence from Canadian politicians concerning the immigration of Jews and other ethnic groups, steam ship tickets, a Chinese head tax, and a Japanese internment card is also included. ($5)
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RavensbrÜck: Ravensbrück Forgotten Women of the Holocaust: A Teacher's Guide, explores the treatment, experiences and responses of the women from diverse backgrounds and nationalities interned at Ravensbrück (a concentration camp built specifically for women). The Teacher's Guide contains lesson ideas, discussion questions, and supporting resources including primary documents such as poems and drawings made in secret by the women of Ravensbrück and staged photographs produced by the Nazis in an effort to deceive a Red Cross delegation about the true conditions of the camp. ($5) |
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Schindler & Vancouver's Schindler Jews The story of Schindler, a Sudeten-German industrialist and rescuer of 1,100 Jews, lends itself to key issues in the history of the Holocaust, most notably the theme of rescue. This Teacher’s Guide presents strategies for integrating the topic of rescue during the Holocaust into the classroom and, by extension, for encouraging students to consider the individual and collective responsibilities of citizens today in responding to contemporary issues of injustice and racism. The Teacher’s Guide includes five classroom lessons, each with a student reading and documents, as well as activities and discussion questions. Although the lessons can be used in conjunction with school tours of the Schindler & Vancouver’s Schindler Jews exhibits, the accompanying texts and visual support material are designed to ensure that they can be carried out in classes without direct access to the Centre. Download the entire Teacher’s Guide Download individual activities: Identity and Rescue Lists: The Difference Between
Life and Death Vancouver’s Schindler
Jews: Representing Schindler:
The Story of the Story Rwandan Genocide: Acts of Rescue To request a hard copy of the Teacher’s Guide, please contact info@vhec.org or 604.264.0499. Your feedback is important to us. Please let us know your thoughts about our teaching resources and school programs by completing our Teacher Evaluation Form. | |
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Shoes of Memory: Holocaust Ceramic Work The seventy pairs of ceramic shoes that make up the exhibition, echo the piles of shoes, clothing, hair, glasses and suitcases found in the warehouses of Auschwitz at liberation and evoke the memory those who perished. Meticulously researched and rendered in clay, Stolzenberg’s shoes return a sense of identity to the victims of the Holocaust by rescuing the shoes from their anonymity in the piles at Auschwitz. The accompanying teachers' guides link the artworks tot he Social Studies and Fine Arts curricula. Download the Social Studies Teacher's Guide |
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Shanghai: A Refuge During the Holocaust Shanghai a Refuge During the Holocaust: A Teacher's Guide, addresses the 18,000 European Jews who found sanctuary in Shanghai. The Teacher's Guide traces the history of the Jews in Shanghai and deals with the indifference that the world community had during the first phase of the holocaust through student readings, primary documents and photographs, a timeline, glossary and suggested resources. |
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Scream the truth at the world Download the Teacher's Guide |
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Close to Home: Anti-Semitism and Fascism Too Close to Home: Anti Semitism & Fascism in Canada 1930's & 1940's: A Teacher's Guide draws attention to a shameful part of Canadian history; a time when Nazi ideology and anti-Semitism permeated Canada's cultural and political landscape and was reflected in Canada's restrictive immigration policies. Too Close to Home , an artefact folio, provides secondary school students and teachers with primary source materials from Canada in the 1930s and 1940s. These materials paint a picture of the times and address the issues of anti-Semitism, Fascism, Nazism and immigration in Canada during the Holocaust. These artefacts have the power to engage students' interest and understanding. They help students appreciate how Canada's present diversity and multicultural identity evolved out of a more exclusionary past. ($20) Teacher's Guide
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