When teaching about the Holocaust, it is not enough to teach how Jews were murdered; we must also teach students how Jews lived. Likewise, it’s not enough to teach Nazi stereotypes of Jews; we must educate students about the diversity of Jewish life in Europe before the war and give them an accurate picture of the group most targeted by the Nazis.

Using the 1200 interviews and 23,000 digitized photographs of Jewish life in 15 Central and Eastern European countries collected by Centropa (www.centropa.org ), in this 90 minute webinar we will explore the diversity of prewar European Jewish life (religious, social, economic, geographic), and the historical context from which Jews in Western, Central, and Eastern Europe faced the Nazis and their collaborators. You will return to your students with resources and lesson ideas you can fit into your curriculum that will help you teach about prewar Jewish life.

$50 Stipend Available for Current CA Educators

Register here.