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Seven Poems, Seven Paintings: A Teacher's Guide to Selected Holocaust Poetry
Seven poems paired with seven original works of art provide learners an opportunity to draw connections between literary and artistic interpretations. Designed to augment a study of the Holocaust, each pair is accompanied by discussion...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Written in Pencil in the Sealed Freightcar
Dan Pagis experienced the horrors of the Holocaust as a young child and only addresses the trauma he experienced through poetry. In the poem "Written in Pencil in a Sealed Freightcar" he uses Genesis and the murder of Abel by Cain as a...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Five Poems by Dan Pagis
Poetry can be used to invoke emotions and humanize events in history. Students will analyze poems written by Dan Pagis about the Holocaust and answer critical thinking questions. Included are the poems, background information, teaching...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Teaching the Holocaust Through Poetry
Teaching a topic as emotional as the Holocaust requires different pedagogical techniques. One way to humanize the Holocaust is through poetry. This lesson centers around the poem "Refugee Blues" that was written a year before the war....
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Seven Poems, Seven Paintings
When teaching about an event such as the Holocaust, using varying teaching methods helps to bring a deeper understanding of the human victims of this atrocity. Students will read seven poems pertaining to the Holocaust, view artwork...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: A Childhood Ensnared in Tears
Chava Wolf is a Holocaust survivor whose paintings and poetry can be used to study the difficult subject of the Holocaust. Students will analyze her art and gain an understanding of art related concepts as well as her experience...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Hidden Children: Expressions
After the Holocaust, the writings, poetry, songs, and artistic expressions of Jews who experienced it firsthand were collected. These expressions were in some cases ordered by the Nazis, or done secretly in concentration camps,...