Resources
This award-winning 30-minute documentary tells the story of Kalman and his sister attempting to escape from the Warsaw ghetto. Through the voices of Kalman’s sister Anna and her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren this story comes alive and sets the stage for your students to share their family stories. Comes with free full-color teacher guide. Appropriate for middle school and older.
Free downloads:
-Connecting to Art and History.pdf
A 28-page educator’s guide with lesson plans, reproducibles, background information, additional resources, links to standards and a scoring rubric. Appropriate for middle and high school as well as adult groups.
A 10-minute video with a Holocaust survivor’s riveting testimony about life in the Warsaw ghetto and the brother she lost to the Nazis blended with images of her daughter painting a series of haunting oil portraits of that boy--her uncle.
You can stream the video on youtube or you can download the video for free and save it to use at your convenience or email us to order a DVD. (It takes the video a few minutes to download. Don’t worry if it doesn’t look as if anything’s happening at first.)
A 10-minute video of Roz Jacobs demonstrating the activity in the Educator’s Guide.
Nine free posters you can download and print for your classroom.
ID cards final 30 to print.pdf
Thirty 2-sided ID cards with photos and stories of Holocaust victims, survivors and rescuers to download and print. Use to make portraits and share stories.
Students can send questions to Holocaust survivor Anna Jacobs, who is featured in the video and film. She answers in her own voice. The blog has an archive of FAQs about her life before during and after the war as well as her explanations of common Yiddish words.
