1938Projekt: Developing Holocaust Curriculum in a Challenging Environment

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Published Jan 25, 2021

During two professional workshops in early 2020, educators from the New York City public school system explored LBI's online 1938Projekt under the guidance of educational consultants Rebecca Krucoff & Natalie Milbrodt, as well as Dr. Magdalena M. Wrobel, LBI’s Project Manager, and Renate Evers, LBI’s Director of Collections. The lesson plan project was sponsored by the METRO New York Library Council as part of their pilot project “User Engagement with Digital Collections.”

The goal of this project was to engage students in grades 6-12 with LBI’s online 1938Projekt: Posts from the Past as part of a broader mission to expand the use of digital archives and digital source material in schools. The project wanted to introduce teachers to specific educational methodologies that utilize digital archival material and digital settings. The project at the Leo Baeck Institute also aimed at maintaining the memory and importance of the Holocaust in the constantly changing world for both Jewish and non-Jewish students. As the time since WWII increases, more and more young people do no longer have direct contact with the generation who experienced anti-Semitism in Europe before WWII and survived the Holocaust. This reduces the Holocaust to a dramatic but far removed event in history for Jews, and even a lesser known episode in history for non-Jews.

Today right-wing populism gains new followers around the world, and includes an increase in racism and anti-Semitism in both the United States and the world. The Covid-19 pandemic presents further obstacles in how to educate. In the face of these challenges, how does one teach the Holocaust in a way meaningful to students, especially when this teaching now must be handled largely in a digital environment?

This discussion addressed the changing landscape of Holocaust education in the face of these challenges and explored the 1938Projekt lesson modules. Among other points, we talked about ways that the lessons of the Holocaust can be made relevant for today’s students.

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