Last week I had the opportunity to attend a one day teacher workshop about the Holocaust. The workshop was presented with the help of the Wassmuth Center for Human Rights located in Boise, Idaho.
As far as workshops go, this was one of the best I have every attended.
It was loaded with tons of resources and we were very fortunate to have met Ela Weissberger. She is a Holocaust survivor who spent time in the Terezin concentration camp. This was the camp the Nazis used as a "showcase" for the International Red Cross inspectors. Many artists, musicians, children, and elderly were sent to Terezin. When the Red Cross inspectors entered the camp, the prisoners were forced to perform concerts or plays. All as a ploy by the Nazis to demonstrate how the prisoners were being treated humanly. Ms. Weissberger participated in one of the concerts performed by the children. It was a children's opera entitled "Brundibar". It was a thinly disguised fable in which powerless animals and children are able to get the town bully. Guess what the bully was to represent? Yes, the Nazis. Weissberger played the part of the "Cat" in the opera.
I was lucky enough to have my picture taken with this wonderful lady. She had a very positive attitude and full of love. An incredible lady!
Also, here are some execellent resources I picked up from the workshop. Please feel free to check them out.
http://sfi.usc.edu/watch/exhibits/70-stories-auschwitz. This link includes 70 testimonies from survivors from Auschwitz. This is truely AMAZING!
http://sfi.usc.edu/watch/exhibits/remembering-kristallnacht. This link includes peoples' testimonies as it relates to Kristallnacht. Again, pretty amazing!
http://sfi.usc.edu/video-topics?nid=236. These clips include survivors speaking about love in the work/death camps. These clips would really get students' attentions since these folks were teenagers while in the camps.
I hope you can use these resources! Enjoy.
70
Days of Testimony: Leading up to the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation
of Auschwitz - See more at:
http://sfi.usc.edu/watch/exhibits/70-stories-auschwitz#sthash.pWWtjdWW.dpuf
70
Days of Testimony: Leading up to the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation
of Auschwitz - See more at:
http://sfi.usc.edu/watch/exhibits/70-stories-auschwitz#sthash.pWWtjdWW.dpuf
70
Days of Testimony: Leading up to the 70th Anniversary of the Liberation
of Auschwitz - See more at:
http://sfi.usc.edu/watch/exhibits/70-stories-auschwitz#sthash.pWWtjdWW.dpuf
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