How can a vast subject like the Holocaust be taught effectively? How can we approach this often daunting, difficult subject? How do we avoid deterring our students, or even traumatizing them? This film presents two components of the educational philosophy for teaching the Holocaust, as developed and refined at the International School for Holocaust studies at Yad Vashem.
Speakers:
Shulamit Imber is Pedagogical Director of the International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem.
Yael Eaglstein-Benayoun, Shanie Lourie and Dr. Naama Shik are staff members at the International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem.
- Part 1: Introduction
- Part 2: Rescuing the Individual from Anonymity
- Part 3: Murderers, Bystanders, and Rescuers
Pedagogical objectives
- Provide the educational meaning of the Holocaust to the present-day classroom.
- Orient questions and discussions so as to be relevant to students.
- Present the Holocaust as a human story, in accordance with the educational philosophy of the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem.
Teaching aids
Lesson plans
- Teaching about Perpetrators: A Case Study about a Deportation of German Jews from Düsseldorf to Riga
- “Until Then I Had Only Read about These Things in Books...”
- I Wanted to Fly Like a Butterfly
- Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara - Righteous Among the Nations
- Creative Use of Holocaust Imagery in the Classroom
- Teaching about the Holocaust through Children's Diaries
Resources
- European "Bystanders”
- Interview With Professor David Bankier
- An Interview With Prof. Saul Friedlaender
- An Interview With Prof. Shulamit Volkov
- Were These Ordinary Poles?
- Interview with Shulamit Imber, Pedagogical Director of the International School for Holocaust Studies
- How Do You Teach Children About the Holocaust?
- Jewish Self-Help in Warsaw
Online Exhibitions
- I am My Brother's Keeper
- Spots of light
- Human Spirit during the Holocaust
- The Story of the Jewish Community of Vilna
- The story of Munkács
- The story of the community of Monastir
- Heartstrings. Music of the Holocaust
- Jews and Sport Before the Holocaust: A Visual Retrospective
- The Stories of Righteous Among the Nations Who Devoted Their Lives to Sport
Learning Environments
