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Welcome to the 15th issue of Teaching the Legacy. This edition focuses on the subject of childhood and creativity. The e-newsletter includes a main article on this theme, as well as an interview, a lesson plan about art in the classroom, and a story of childhood rescue. As always, the newsletter features new publications, book reviews, and updates on recent and upcoming activities at the International School for Holocaust Studies and around Yad Vashem. We hope you find this issue interesting and resourceful and we look forward to your feedback.
Teaching the Holocaust by Highlighting the Youth, their Perseverance, and Creativity
IntroductionChildren were particularly vulnerable during the Holocaust. Deemed as "unwanted," a threat to future Aryan domination, and too small to be of use to the Nazi war machine, children were killed first in aktionen. The Germans and their collaborators killed more than one million Jewish children during the Holocaust, in gas chambers, upon birth, with malnutrition, and with improper...
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Interview with Chava Wolf, Artist
This exclusive interview was published in our newsletter Teaching the Legacy (March, 2009). The original interview was conducted in Hebrew. Chava Wolf-Wijnitzer is a child Holocaust survivor and an artist, born in northern Bukovina (today's Ukraine, near the border of Romania). Her paintings and poems deal with her childhood, most of which was spent in ghettos in Transnistria (near...
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Creative Use of Holocaust Imagery in the Classroom
A lesson plan for young students on using artwork to express themselves on the subject of the Holocaust. These guided activities provide an avenue for teachers to use art in the classroom. Through a discussion of symbols and the artwork of Holocaust survivor Chava Wolf, students of varying ages can express themselves on this difficult subject.
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A Coat and Baby Utensils that Belonged to the Children Mirjam and Zvi Hamerslag
In this section we focus on artifacts, presented courtesy of the Artifacts Retrieval Department, that can inform us about a specific part of the Holocaust period. These items, which are part of the Yad Vashem collection, are unique: they characterize events that occurred during the Holocaust, and hold emotional value as well. The story of these artifacts is accompanied by points of reference and discussion...
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