Teach Holocaust Education with Film

Teach Holocaust Education with Film

We’re excited to share our new step-by-step guide on how to Teach Holocaust Education with Film. From award-winning documentaries to tools for fostering critical discussions, these resources help educators teach the Holocaust authentically, inspire empathy, and honor the lessons of history.

Holocaust Education Guide Highlights

1. Getting Ready to Teach Holocaust Education: instructional foundations & teaching tools for teaching Holocaust Education with Film.

2. Teaching with Holocaust Education Films: Award-winning films about the Holocaust with classroom-ready lesson plans.

3. Wrapping Up Your Holocaust Education Class: Tools for helping students process big feelings when you teach Holocaust Education.

4. When to Teach Holocaust Education: A Holocaust Education Calendar, of opportunities for sharing Holocaust Education films with your education community.

We hope the resources we have shared here will make it easy for teachers to bring Holocaust Education alive in the classroom and boost student engagement with this important subject.

Read the full article at Share my Lesson: Teaching Holocaust Education with Film.

PS We’re honored that our article was featured in the Share My Lesson newsletter!On the left, text says: "Journeys in Film: Teaching Holocaust Education with Film Have you tried teaching with film? Get ideas for teaching about the Holocaust using films to transform history lessons that drive home the enormity of this historical genocide in age-appropriate ways." On the right there is a colorful photo of Sonia Warshawski, an elderly Jewish-American woman and Holocaust Survivor. Text over the image says, "If I reach one heart, I accomplish something. - Big Sonia."

 

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