Memories, Voices & Choices: Lessons Learned from the Holocaust and Global Genocides ~ A Tolerance Curriculum
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Gerda Weissmann Klein, age 16, 1940 "I was in a place for six incredible years, where winning meant a slice of bread and living another day."
Project: Memories, Voices & Choices: Lessons Learned from the Holocaust and Global Genocides; video based tolerance curriculum; Publisher:
Gerda and Kurt Klein Foundation My Role: Curriculum concept and development; desktop publishing; field testing Comments: The Philadelphia Inquirer, in a March 19, 2001 article, named this curriculum one of the "several excellent curricula and models available for teaching tolerance." This curriculum will be launched nationwide in the fall of 2001. download PDF of Philadelphia Inquirer article
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This middle school and high school tolerance curriculum was inspired by the life of Holocaust survivor and hunger activist Gerda Weissmann Klein. The curriculum, based on a five-part two-time Emmy Award nominated video series I developed in 1999 in collaboration with program partners, helps students examine the lessons of the Holocaust through the eyes of experts, eyewitnesses and survivors. It relates the experiences of survivors to the moral and ethical dilemmas young people confront today. Students come to understand that factors that lead to genocide such as intolerance, prejudice and race hatred still exist in our world today. Students begin to think critically about the responsibility of individuals, groups, governments and nations to confront injustices in the past and present-day. They then translate their new understandings into concrete, positive action in their own communities.
AWARDS 1999-2000 two-time Emmy Award Nominee for Outstanding Informational Program and Outstanding Program Elements (National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences) 1999 Telecon Awards, First Place -- Best Community Service Program via Distance Learning (national award) ©
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