Carson High School: Pilot Program for Living Histories

Carson High School student listening to a presentation on Living Histories.

Merri Weir, Carson High School teacher, presenting the lesson module to her class.

Students taking notes during the presentation.

Student from Merri Weir's class watching Howard Cwick's testimony of his experience as an American soldier liberating the Buchenwald concentration camp.

A student watching Howard Cwick's testimony.

After watching Howard Cwick's testimony, students broke out into groups to work on a classroom activity.

A student in Merri Weir's class presents her group's observations to the class.

Designed for educators, Living Histories: Seven Voices from the Holocaust, is a series of 7 downloadable 30-minute testimonies, with classroom lessons highlighting a range of eyewitness experiences related to the Holocaust, from the Institute’s Visual History Archive. Living Histories was piloted in several classrooms across the United States. One pilot took place in the Spring of 2009 in Merri Weir's history class at Carson High School in Carson, California. The photos below were taken during a classroom session that focused on one of the seven modules, Howard Cwick, Liberator: Eyewitness to History.

Visit the entire series, Living Histories: Seven Voices from the Holocaust.

Album posted on: May 21, 2009