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Explore propaganda and mind control during the Nazi Era as illustrated in Artwork.
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| Professor Christopher Long's Links for Holocaust Studies | ||
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Teachers should use these links to spark thought and classroom discussion on the Holocaust and the impact the Holocaust has on our world today. I hope you find these websites interesting and helpful. Please e-mail me at longc@stockton.edu if any of the links no longer function. Enjoy. |
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Control - Art in the Nazi Era (Grades 8-12) Explore propaganda and mind control during the Nazi Era as illustrated in Artwork. |
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| PowerPoint Presentation for Videoconference
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This PowerPoint presentation is designed to introduce middle and high-school students to the manner in which the Nazis used art as propaganda. The lesson attempts to develop the cognitive skills students need to actively and critically engage the images and information with which they are faced everyday. By focusing on two works of art, a painting by Oskar Martin-Amorbach and one by Marc Chagall, this lesson not only shows in a very concrete way how the Nazi’s used art for their own political purposes, but also, it models a critical way of analyzing images that will be of lasting importance in the daily lives of students. The presentation seeks to relate the information developed in the first part to the relationship between art and politics in other contexts, including our own political culture. There is a teacher's guide that goes with the lesson. | |
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Additional
Web Resources for Classroom Discussion on Holocaust Studies
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Eyes From The Ashes
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| -- | This is an extremely powerful website with pictures compiled from a collection of pictures expropriated by the Nazis from newly arrived prisoners of Auschwitz. Ann Weiss stumbled into a small room with these pictures when she got lost on a tour of Auschwitz. Her story is almost as moving as the pictures are haunting. | |
| Facing History & Ourselves
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| -- | This website offers excellent resources for the study of the Holocaust. "Facing History helps students find meaning in the past and recognize the need for participation and responsible decision making." | |
| Fourteen Stations
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| -- | Contemporary artist Ari Galles has undertaken an incredible artistic project described and displayed (although not yet complete) at this site. | |
| The Jewish Museum: New
York
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| -- | The website of the Jewish Museum in New York City. | |
| Lessons for Life
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| -- | Documentary shown on NJN examining how the Holocaust is taught in New Jersey public schools. I was involved in developing the teacher's guide for the documentary. | |
| Moshe Rynecki Virtual Museum
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| -- | This web site is managed by Moshe Rynecki's great-granddaughter,
Elizabeth Rynecki, its description is best left to the site itself: "Moshe
Rynecki's life spanned many turbulent events: the partition of his country
(Poland), almost constant political turmoil, and two world wars. While Rynecki's
artistic merit is important, in his paintings we can gain deeper insight
into a culture transformed and nearly annihilated by Nazism. Through his
choice of subjects, he provides us with a realistic depiction of Jewish
family life, work, religion, education, and recreation. Although his primary
goal and focus in life was to be an artist of merit, history turned him
into an important witness when he was transferred to the Warsaw Ghetto.
There he documented the atrocity and horror that surrounded him.
Although the Holocaust brought great loss and a tragic end to Moshe Rynecki and many members of his family, our goal in this web site is to celebrate him and his work." |
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| Poisonous Mushroom
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| -- | In 1938 the anti-Semitic publisher of Der Stürmer, Julius Streicher published a collection of children's stories by Ernst Hiemer. The 17 stories in this collection reinforce some of basic tenets of the Nazi ideology: That Jews are dirty, dangerous, poisonous, deceptive, impure, etc., and that they can be identified by certain distinctive physical characteristics. These stories stand as a reminder of the tremendous impact stories have in shaping the lives and beliefs of children. The Nazis knew that if they planted the seeds of hatred in the young, the future of their ideology would be secure. The only possible response to stories like these is to assiduously work to undermine prejudice of every kind in children of all ages. | |
| Simon Wiesenthal Center
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| -- | "The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust by fostering tolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach and social action." | |
| Stockton
College's Holocaust Resource Center
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| -- | "The Center is a joint project of Stockton and the Jewish Federation of Atlantic and Cape May Counties. It serves as a resource for the study of the Holocaust and its significance for the past, present and future." | |
| University over
the Abyss
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| -- | Lectures in Ghetto Theresienstadt, 1942-1944. | |
| US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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| -- | The United States government's official memorial for the Holocaust. It is an excellent place to begin research concerning the Holocaust. | |
| Yad Vashem
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| -- | Israel's national Holocaust Memorial. | |