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EDUCATIONAL UNITS

 
Holocaust Educator's Resource Kit.
 
The kit is designed to help the educator plan and run short, focused learning sessions on two facets of the Holocaust: The Stories of Jewish Children in the Holocaust, and the Faces of Jewish Resistance. The kit includes a comprehensive teachers' manual, two video cassettes 'Four Stories of Hiding and Rescue' and 'The Warsaw Ghetto Fights Back', Activity Cards, an audio compact disk 'Beneath the Starry Sky: Melodies of Remembrance',and an exhibit catalogue with photos and exhibit excerpts from the Yad Layeled Children's Museum.
Price: $99.00
 
Four Stories of Hiding and Rescue.
 
A video and teachers' guide which includes brief video testimonies of four child survivors together with written suggestions for viewing tasks, topics for discussion, workshop ideas, full transcripts of the testimonies, and enrichment activities in the creative arts.
Price: $25.00
 
Resistance Reaffirmed:A Dramatic Reading for the High School Classroom by Dr.Karen Shawn
 
A rich document-based dramatic reading that presents the narrative history of the important and often unknown story of Jewish resistance. It presents specific examples of Jewish spiritual, religious, and physical resistance during the Holocaust and is designed for students in grades 8 through 12. The reading is also suitable for adults to stage in informal education settings, synagogue or church groups, or community gatherings. Performance time is about 30 minutes, with parts for twenty readers, and it can be easily reassigned to accommodate more or fewer readers. With the addition of staging and music, performance time can be expanded.
Price: $12.50
 
“The Warsaw Ghetto: A Documentary Discussion Guide to Jewish Resistance in Occupied Warsaw 1939-1943” by Dr. Karen Shawn
 
Presents facts about Jewish resistance and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in particular, using historical documents and a narrative thread to help explain the complexities of Jewish response to the Nazis and the extent to which Jews resisted the Nazi death machine in Poland. Written for high school students, this four-section, 13-page teaching unit includes photographs, maps, and questions for discussion, writing, and further research. Reprinted with permission from Dimensions.
Price: $4.00
 
Portraits of the Fighters
 
A Teachers’ Guide and mini-poster series on nineteen leaders of the Jewish Resistance Produced by The Ghetto Fighters’ Museum The Teachers’ Guide includes historical background and information on the youth movements and the Jewish Resistance, as well as biographies of each of the featured young resistance fighters. Each of the nineteen mini-posters highlights one of the leaders of the Resistance through photos and quotations.
Price: $45.00
 
Traces of Humanity, Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust
 
This kit is an introduction to the full complexity of the concept of Jewish Resistance during the Holocaust through texts, historical documentation and rare photographs. The kit is composed of two main units: Traces of Humanity – The Exhibition, containing a Teacher’s Guide, 20 exhibition posters and 30 testimony cards; and Art as Spiritual Resistance, containing 32 prints of art work created during the Holocaust, 15 cards with quotations from Holocaust artists and a detailed Teacher’s Guide.
Price: $65.00
 
 
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