The Ghettos

Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem
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Published 2016-05-02
This Educator Video Toolbox is aligned to Echoes and Reflections echoesandreflections.org/, a comprehensive Holocaust education program that delivers professional development and a rich array of multimedia resources for middle and high school teachers. This video complements Lesson 4: The Ghettos echoesandreflections.org/the-lessons/lessons-compo…. It addresses key historical context, supports your teaching, and provides a methodological and pedagogical framework to help you teach this subject effectively. Professional development programs for middle and high school educators are taking place around the country; you can find one near you here echoesandreflections.org/sign-up-for-training/.

This movie, which focuses on the story of the Lodz ghetto, will discuss the challenges of teaching about this period: how can we make the story of the ghettos relevant to our students? How can we shed light today, decades after the tragic events, on what Jews knew, felt or understood during those terrifying days? What are the sources that can reveal their internal worlds?

SPEAKERS
Dr Robert Rozett is Director of the Yad Vashem Libraries, as well as an author, researcher and senior editor on Holocaust-related subjects.
Shani Lourie is the Head of Pedagogy Section atThe International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem
Shlomit Steiner is a staff member at the International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem.
For additional information about Echoes and Reflections visit echoesandreflections.org/

Archival footage and photographs:
- Yad Vashem Photo Archive.
- Yad Vashem Film Archive.
- © Jüdisches Museum Frankfurt am Main / Photo: Walter Genewein.
- Agentur Karl Höffkes.
- Steven Spielberg Film and Video Archive, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
- Footage of Rudolf Bohlmann used with the kind permission of Eginhard Teichmann.
- Bundesfilmarchiv/Transit Film GmbH.
- The testimonies of Ellis Lewin and Eva Safferman are taken from archive of the USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education. For more information: sfi.usc.edu/.

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All Comments (15)
  • @kristinepfs
    They were such beautiful people - every one of them. May they rest in peace.
  • @TCrox
    This is absolutely heart breaking, lives destroyed, and families torn apart.
  • @lyndamulder6103
    I'm shocked and in pain now. What a cruel world ! Poor, poor people...😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
  • @andrewlogan3700
    I'm not Jewish, but, I feel terrible sadness for these people, what they went through was horrifying! 😢
  • @danielm.4346
    A well made documentary. Thankful to all the the people who worked to produce this video. Very glad of your survival. Thank You.
  • @mimosasmagnolias1243
    My heart always aches for the unbound fear & uncertainty the adults must have felt ~ living moment to moment on a daily basis ~ no control over yourself ~ being unable to protect your children & the children ripped away from all they knew of comfortable life ~ facing hatred & cruelty for absolutely no reason ~ no fault of their own ~ I cannot get my mind or heart around these atrocities... and hope I never will ~ for we know pure evil does exist... as an American I truly apologize & wish I could express my sorrow more fully that these acts were ever committed... God Bless and keep you.
  • @arodordie
    I am in tears. Poor, innocent souls.
  • @1963huong
    my heart is breaking but so much admiration to these people and their heart wrenching diary. I don't understand the existence of God through these days. These diaries shine their decent souls and dignity on the sky in which we live .
  • @dianarumboll2963
    Always GRATEFUL. FOR YOUR TEACHING AND SHARING THAT TRIGGERS OFF our great necessity to challenge our days ahead with Personal responsability. How to make an IMPACT ON OUR PRESENT HISTORY