Poetry in Holocaust Education
“The historical, by its nature, tends to accent the unfolding of events while indicating social and political trends. Art, on the other hand, has always sought out the individual, his inner [world], and from that, it tries to understand the [outside] world. Art, perhaps only art, is the last defense against the banal, the commonplace and the irrelevant, and, to take it even further, the last defense against simplicity.”
Aharon Appelfeld, Speech on the eve of Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Day, 1997, Yad Vashem
Articals
The Value of Holocaust Poetry in Education
The Wooden Synagogue of Chodorow
Felix Nussbaum: Self Portraits of a Jew in Turmoil
The German-Jewish Artist Charlotte Salomon
Teaching the Holocaust through Literature
The Third Reich: Classical Music and the Nazi Leadership, 1933-1945
The Third Reich and the Theft of a Musical Legacy
Commemoration and Poetry
Interdisciplinary Education
Are There Boundaries to Artistic Representations of the Holocaust?
Commemoration in the Art of Holocaust Survivors
Education Video Toolbox
Survivors Testimony Films Series
Online Exhibitions
The Anguish of Liberation as Reflected in Art 1945-1947
Private Tolkatchev at the Gates of Hell - Majdanek and Auschwitz Liberated: Testimony of an Artist
Felix Nussbaum - the Fate of a Jewish Artist
Last Portrait - Painting for Posterity
Landscapes - the Art Collection
Women Artists in the Holocaust
Samuel Bak - An Arduous Road
Heartstrings - Music of the Holocaust
lesson plans
Teaching the Holocaust through Literature
Teaching the Holocaust Through Poetry
Seven Poems, Seven Paintings
Written in Pencil in the Sealed Freightcar – A Poem by Dan Pagis (1930-1986)
The Sacrifice of Isaac as a Motif in Holocaust Poetry
Propaganda and the Visual Arts in the Third Reich - lesson plan
Creative Use of Holocaust Imagery in the Classroom
Lesson plan based on Hannah Gofrit's story "I Wanted to Fly Like a Butterfly"
