Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre
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This web-based Holocaust educational resource creates opportunities for students to interact with Holocaust survivor’s accounts of persecution, loss and survival. Educators and students can engage with Holocaust testimony in a lesson, within a larger unit, or as part of an independent research project.
- Recommended for students in grades 8 through 12, with adaptations possible for intermediate grades
- Includes excerpts of digitized audio-visual testimonies from the VHEC’s survivor testimony collection
- Contains lesson plans, student worksheets and classroom activities
The Online Symposium on the Holocaust provides student engagement with a historian and Holocaust Survivor Speakers. Once registered, the symposium is accessible to learners at any time, offering different levels of engagement and learning at the user’s own pace. It can be taught in half a day, or over several days or weeks.
Symposium is recommended for students in grades 10 through 12.
Includes:
- A video-recorded historical overview on the Holocaust by Dr. Lauren Faulkner Rossi (SFU)
- Video-recorded eyewitness accounts by Holocaust survivors Lillian Boraks-Nemetz and Dr. Robert Krell
- Video-recorded answers to frequently asked questions asked of survivors
- Guidelines for teachers, a note to students on how they can make a difference, and links to additional resources
Follow these easy steps to enroll:
- Click on this link: https://vhecsymposium.thinkific.com/
- Click on “Enroll for free”
- Register with your contact information
- Ask students to take the same steps to enroll
Holocaust Survivor Speakers share their experiences of persecution, discrimination and loss with teachers and students from their homes on Zoom.
Engaging with a Holocaust Survivor Speaker prompts your students to think in depth about social justice and human rights. Your students gain a better understanding of what it means to take on individual and social responsibilities, as many survivors address taking action toward a more just world.
The program’s duration is 60 minutes (40-minute survivor presentation followed by a 20-minute question period). A small number of speakers are able to address groups in French.
- Recommended for students in grades 6 to 12
- Recommended class size of as many students as possible up to a maximum of 95.
- Free of charge until December 2020, thanks to the generous sponsorship from the Diamond Foundation
For more information and bookings visit: https://www.vhec.org/school-programs/outreach-holocaust-speakers/
This workshop consists of a short film, Pigeon, followed by an interactive presentation by a VHEC docent on Zoom. Students learn about the systematic persecution of Jews in France and acts of rescue during the Holocaust. Questions by the workshop facilitator foster critical thinking and ideas about social responsibility with students. The interactive workshop stimulates student thinking about the choices we all make and our motivations for making them.
Sessions run 60 minutes for secondary school classes, 45 minutes for elementary school classes, or as per agreement with the Centre.
- Recommended for students in grades 6 to 12
- Recommended class size of a maximum of 30 students
- Free of charge until December 2020, thanks to the generous sponsorship from the Diamond Foundation
For more information and bookings visit: https://www.vhec.org/school-programs/classroom-workshops/
