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1. Collaboration and Inspiration at IWitness Teaching Fellowship

   ... since he first tested it five years ago. IWitness makes survivor testimony feel relevant to students’ lives, he said. Being able ... most exciting thing I’ve learned is how to really use survivor testimony to teach almost anything,” Collins said. “I would never ...

   robin.migdol - 07/13/2015 - 2:59pm

2. New Cohort of Master Teachers Learn About Testimony in Budapest

   ... century. Educators worked with the testimony of Holocaust survivor Lajos Erdélyi as part of their pre-task activity and during the ... possibly an IWalk or a lesson based on testimony from a survivor who attended the school she teaches at. Csitkei was looking forward to ...

   robin.migdol - 12/19/2016 - 3:03pm

3. You CAN Go Home Again

   ... has had many spectacular successes since my departure. Survivor testimony only exists historically; it comes from particular places ... to strip it of its most essential meaning. Using a clip of survivor testimony to teach about bullying, for example, without acknowledging ...

   deanna.pitre - 02/17/2022 - 3:30pm

4. The Place of the Vél d’Hiv Roundup in French Collective Memory

   ... the Visual History Archive Among the 45 relevant survivor testimonials, I noticed several overarching themes. First, the majority of the survivor-witnesses emphasize in their testimonies the “devoir de mémoire” ...

   deanna.pitre - 01/10/2020 - 4:46pm

5. Bringing Stories to Daylight

   ... he was 15 years old. Goldszer offers the perspective of a survivor who went through the thick of the Holocaust as a pre-teen, and who had ... online, and came up with no mention of his account as a survivor.  As far as I know, nobody has relayed any segment of his amazing ...

   deanna.pitre - 02/17/2022 - 4:05pm

6. UCLA IPAM Students Present Results of Information Retrieval Project

   ... Aces movie Wikipedia page for a segment in which the survivor discussed his immigration to New York City – not exactly relevant. ... Vilnius, Lithuania, was retrieved for a segment in which the survivor discussed her background there. This would be considered an accurate ...

   robin.migdol - 08/14/2014 - 5:23pm

7. Top 10 IWitness Activities of 2015

   ... learn about the experiences of Paula Lebovics, a Holocaust survivor who was imprisoned in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp as a ... engage in close reading of the testimony of one Holocaust survivor who was imprisoned there. Students also identify content-specific ...

   deanna.pitre - 01/10/2020 - 3:32pm

8. USHMM Levine Institute for Holocaust Education

   ... and other community members during Kristallnacht. By pairing survivor testimonies with historical photographs, the activity employs close ... case study – Kristallnacht – in a way that uses survivor testimonies that reinforce the human impact of individual ...

   robin.migdol - 09/10/2015 - 7:52am

9. Three Days in Auschwitz

   ... I returned to Auschwitz the next day with Gabor Hirsch, a survivor who appears in the liberation photograph as a 15 year old, and his ... will never have the opportunity to visit Auschwitz with a survivor, or attend a commemoration with hundreds of survivors present, in ...

   deanna.pitre - 01/10/2020 - 3:19pm

10. Rutman Teaching Fellow Harry Reicher Delves into the Visual History Archive

    ... I had read about.” For example, in one testimony, a survivor talked about finding out that she and the other Jewish children in her ... Another testimony revealed how upsetting it was when a survivor’s father was fired from his university and she was forced to leave ...

    robin.migdol - 07/24/2014 - 5:17pm

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