Stereotyping and Perspective

Tue, 03/28/2017 - 4:55pm
Through testimony of genocide survivors from the Visual History Archive, it is possible to examine how stereotypes manifest into society and fuel prejudice.
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Teaching with Testimony

Teaching with Testimony

Genocide: Holocaust survivor Itka Zygmuntowicz

Holocaust survivor Itka Zygmuntowicz on the last time she saw her mother.

  • Genocide: Holocaust survivor Itka Zygmuntowicz

    Language: English

    Holocaust survivor Itka Zygmuntowicz on the last time she saw her mother.

  • Jan Karski on the Warsaw Ghetto

    Language: English

    Jan Karski speaks on being smuggled into the Warsaw Ghetto to report on the horrible conditions and the destruction of Polish Jewry. He also recalls how he recently met, just months prior to his interview, a very successful business man, who as a child followed Karski around in the ghetto. 

  • Alicia Appleman-Jurman on courage

    Language: English

    100 Days to Inspire Respect

    Alicia describes when her house was attacked. She recognizes one of the attackers, and she makes a speech to him that causes him to leave.
     

  • Roméo Dallaire on the 1994 Rwandan Tutsi Genocide

    Language: English

    Roméo Dallaire describes how quickly violence escalated in Rwanda in 1994 and his disappointment in the lack of support from the international community.

  • Carl Wilkens on neighbors speaking up

    Language: English

    Carl Wilkens, an aid provider during the Rwandan Tutsi Genocide, describes the courageous acts of his neighbors. 

Event Details

Facebook Live Chat with Holocaust Survivor Paula Lebovics

November 29, 2016 @ 11:00 am - November 29, 2016 @ 12:00 pm

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Start: November 29, 2016 / 11:00 AM
End: November 29, 2016 / 12:00 PM
Robert Mindelzun on Gratitude and Citizenship
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#BeginsWithMe - 2016

#BeginsWithMe - Why I Support Teaching with Testimony

Thu, 05/05/2016 - 10:51am
As the son of two survivors of the Shoah and the husband of a daughter of two survivors, identifying as the Next Generation has been the essence of who I am. It is the prism through which I see and evaluate all worldly events. It was particularly my father’s life that affected me the most. He truly was a “survivor." He survived the war running for his life through Russia, Siberian labor camps and other lands in Asia. He survived losing his parents, five of his sisters their husbands and children. He escaped from his hometown in the Russian sector to a displaced person camp in in the American sector. He survived as a refugee in Belgium and then as an immigrant in the United States. He survived the loss of his wife at a young age raising three children as a single parent in a foreign land.
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IWitness Publishes “The Bystander Effect” Activity about the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda

Wed, 01/06/2016 - 5:00pm
Students all over the world can now complete an IWitness activity about the dangers of being a bystander that was first piloted in the United States and Rwanda.
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IWitness in Action: Teaching the Bystander Effect

Tue, 01/05/2016 - 11:27am
As educators, when we go into teaching, we go in with what some might call ideological visions: This concept that we can and will make a difference; this idea that the children we teach will take the lessons we’ve taught and use them to become productive people long after they leave the four walls of our classroom. As we sit here now, reflecting on our most recent efforts to teach the Holocaust in a profound manner that gives justice and honor to the victims of this atrocity, we feel fortunate that such ideologies are being lived in our classroom.
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