The Kohelet Prize Database

Database Entries Tagged with: Holocaust

The Story of Our People: From One Generation to the Next

A keynote project in which students create professional documentaries based on the "Survivor Circles" experience & showcased in a beautiful community-wide Film Festival as the hallmark of a newly written literacy-based, student-centered curriculum for Modern Jewish History that integrates academic skills with primary sources.

By: Anna Bolman from Fuchs Mizrachi School

Grade(s): 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Middle school, High school

Subject(s) of entry: History, Literature, Social Studies

Pedagogy: Experiential Education, PBL - project based learning, UBD - understanding by design, 21st Century Skills

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From History to memory

An innovative program in our middle school: a multi-disciplinary. multi-grade curriculum that will help our students understand the meaning of Holocaust. We currently are implement a new curriculum for each grade of middle school includes projects, meaningful first-person accounts and personal student reflections.

By: Stephenie Samuels , Jack Fidler, Megan Hemliton , Roberta Writh , Barak Cerf, Benji Hain , Hal Borkow, Dana Bar-or , from Maimonides

Grade(s): 6, Middle school

Subject(s) of entry: English/ Writing/ Language Arts

Pedagogy: PBL - project based learning

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Art as a Lens to the Holocaust and Genocide: The Legacy Project

Middle schoolers become researchers, artists, historians, and storytellers, exploring memorials and monuments through an integrated year-long study in Judaism, Fine Arts, and Humanities. This project-focused learning fosters deep understanding and engagement about the Holocaust on a personal level as well as within a deeper global context.

By: Colleen Simon, Rhiannon Van Bindsbergen from Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford

Grade(s): 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Middle school, High school

Subject(s) of entry: Art, Engineering, English/ Writing/ Language Arts, History, Literature, Philosophy/ Values/ Ethics/ Hashkafa, Social and Emotional Learning, Social Studies

Pedagogy: Constructivist, Design-Thinking Model, Experiential Education, IBL - inquiry based learning, PBL - project based learning, Social and Emotional Learning, Soulful Education, 21st Century Skills

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Child Victim Project

Each year our Grade 6 students partake in a project that connects them to the lives of Jewish children who perished in the Holocaust.

These innocent victims who perished are honored and remembered by our students who retell their stories. Our students feel connected to their Jewish heritage and have a deeper and more meaningful understanding of the lives of those who lived before them.

By: Ms. Amy Taylor from Jewish Peoples and Peretz Schools (JPPS-BIALIK)

Grade(s): 6, Middle school

Subject(s) of entry: Art, History, Literature

Pedagogy: PBL - project based learning

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