The Holocaust through Stamps

 

 

Teaching the Holocaust through Stamps

This project is a CMC based teaching unit dealing with the Holocaust. The learning tasks are acomplished through the use of stamps, photos, children's paintings and text in a computerized virtual environment.

The program deals with six subjects: The Executioner, The Victim, the Silent Bystander, The Righteous, A Stamp Album and a Stamp Gallery.

For each of these subjects the following resources are provided:

1. Primary historical sources: authentic stamps, poems, paintings and drawings by children and photorgraphs.
2. Secondary historical sources: stamps and historical research documents.
3. Links to relevant institutes and databases like the Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum in Washington and dialogue groups.
4. Instructions and work sheets for discussion and evaluation.
5. A template for composing and drawing a new stamp for uploading at the Stamp Gallery of the project in the Internet.

Contact: Chaya Ostrower, Beit Berl Teachers' College
Tova Perlmutter, Levinsky Teacher's College
Address:1 Borochov St. Tel-Aviv
Country:Israel
Phone:+972.3.5281939
Fax:
e-mail: chayao@post.tau.ac.il
URL:http://
mofetsrv.mofet.macam98.ac.il/~ochayo/einvert.htm

English Description of the Project

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