Through poetry and testimony, Sonia Schreiber Weitz gives life to the millions of children, men and women who were murdered during the Holocaust. Sonia was 11 years old when her family and other Polish Jews were herded into ghettos and forced to live in treacherous conditions that often led to death. Of the 84 members of her family, Sonia and her sister Blanca were the sole survivors. To help cope with her emotions, Sonia turned to writing poetry at an early age. Today she teaches and lectures to adults and children about the Holocaust.

I Promised I Would Tell: Her Poetry and Testimony During the Holocaust

Biographies & Memoirs

Sonia Schreiber Weitz

Community & Culture

Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation

Facing History and Ourselves: The Jews of Poland considers the ways Jews and their non-Jewish neighbors in Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe responded to questions of identity, membership, and difference at various times in their shared history. Students explore this history by reading autobiographies, diaries, official documents, literary works, and other sources. Each helps them "draw conclusions from what we see to what we do not see" and "recognize themselves in the past, on the steps to the present." Like other Facing History publications, The Jews of Poland is intended to be used as a resource book. It provides a meaningful but flexible structure for examining complex events and ideas. Teachers are encouraged to select the readings that are most appropriate for their students and match the objectives of their curriculum. They are also encouraged to choose the questions and activities that further those objectives from a section entitled "Connections." It appears at the end of every reading and contains suggestions for class discussions, writing assignments, and research projects. Many of the questions encourage students to investigate key concepts and issues, prompt perspective taking, and offer opportunities to explore connections between historical events and their own lives.

The Jews of Poland

History

Facing History, And Ourselves

Europe

Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement focuses on a time in the early 1900s when many people believed that some "races," classes, and individuals were superior to others. They used a new branch of scientific inquiry known as eugenics to justify their prejudices and advocate programs and policies aimed at solving the nation's problems by ridding society of "inferior racial traits."

Race And Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians combines the latest scholarship on the Armenian Genocide with an interdisciplinary approach to history, enabling students and teachers to make the essential connections between history and their own lives. By concentrating on the choices that individuals, groups, and nations made before, during, and after the genocide, readers have the opportunity to consider the dilemmas faced by the international community in the face of massive human rights violations. While focusing on the Armenian Genocide during World War I, the book considers the many legacies of the Armenian Genocide including Turkish denial and the struggle for the recognition of genocide as a "crime against humanity." The book can be integrated into courses dealing with multiple genocides, human rights, as well as history courses covering the late 19th century and World War I as well as U.S. international relations.

Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians

Children's Books

Stitching Truth: Women's Protest Art in Pinochet's Chile is the story of the sisters, wives, and mothers who made up the women's protest movement in Chile during Pinochet's dictatorship (1973-1990). It is an incredible story of courage and resistance. Facing what would seem like insurmountable odds, the women challenged silence and terror imposed by Pinochet, his military, and his secret police. Intended to make the material appropriate for classroom use, this case study includes Connection Questions for student reflection, suggested further reading, and primary source documents. 8 pps of 4-color inserts.

Stitching Truth: Women's Protest Art in Pinochet's Chile

Arts & Photography

Stories of Identity reflects the way that migration affects personal identity and offers educators and students resources to examine this migration through methods of storytelling. It shares the experiences of immigrants in America and Europe from the individual to the collective through memoirs, journalistic accounts, and interviews. The book uses stories about family and upbringing, faith and doubt, religion, school and community, history and scholarship, interviews with young people and meditations from novelists and authors, including author Jumpa Lahiri (The Namesake), Ed Husain (The Islamist), Eboo Patel (Founder of the Inferaith Youth Core), and many more. These experiences reflect a recent and global phenomenon where identity and citizenship are challenged by the greater blurring of national boundaries. Exploring the stories of young migrants and their changing communities, Stories asks readers to reflect on the fluidity of identity.

Stories of Identity: Religion, Migration, and Belonging in a Changing World

This resource book studies the role of religion in public life by examining the French Republican model of assimilation. This resource features a thoughtful essay that provides critical background to France s national debate over the veil as a declaration of religious practice. It offers a rich text comprised of meaningful readings to encourage classroom discussion. This book uses a national debate as a way to develop an educational framework for integration, tolerance, and cultural acceptance.

What Do We Do with a Difference? France and the Debate over Headscarves in Schools

Religion & Spirituality

Choices in Little Rock is a teaching unit that focuses on efforts to desegregate Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1957—efforts that resulted in a crisis that historian Taylor Branch once described as the most severe test of the Constitution since the Civil War. The unit explores civic choices—the decisions people make as citizens in a democracy. Those decisions, both then and now, reveal that democracy is not a product but a work in progress, a work that is shaped in every generation by the choices that we make about ourselves and others. Although those choices may not seem important at the time, little by little, they define an individual, delineate a community, and ultimately distinguish a nation. Those choices build on the work of earlier generations and leave legacies for those to come.

Choices in Little Rock

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Americas

Choosing to Participate focuses on the civic choices—both large and small—people make about themselves and others in their community, nation, and world. As teachers and students explore the readings in this collection they will come to understand that choices people make may not seem important at the time, but little by little they shape us as individuals and responsible global citizens. The stories in this collection focus on individuals and groups—the famous and the not so famous—wrestling with a question that many young people ask, How can I make a positive difference in the world? This resource is a valuable addition to units on civics, government, and US history. Features include: 10 readings centered around the following themes: civic participation, democracy, bystanders vs. upstanders, community, segregation; 2 new readings tell the story of social change (My Country Tis of Thee) and civic participation (From Sympathy to Action); Accompanying video/audio links add a multimedia component to each reading; Connection Questions to stimulate classroom conversation

Choosing to Participate, revised edition (2009)

Politics & Government

Now, Facing History and Ourselves introduces a 17-lesson unit designed to help middle school educators use the materials in Facing History and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behavior , as well as other Facing History resources. This unit has been designed to help students learn about this important moment in history while deepening their understanding of themes such as peer pressure, obedience, fear and self-preservation, opportunism, and prejudice.

Decision-Making in Times of Injustice

Business & Money

Management & Leadership

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