The Centropa Archives: Using Primary Source Interviews and Photographs to Teach About the…

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Nothing speaks louder to today's students than images. Between 2000 and 2009, Centropa, a historical institute based in Vienna, interviewed over 1200 elderly Jews in 15 Central and Eastern European countries. They did not videotape the interviews, nor focus on the Holocaust. Rather, they asked the Holocaust survivors to tell them their entire life stories spanning the 20th century as they shared their old family photographs. In this module, we will use Centropa's archive of over 23,000 digitized family photographs and interviews to explore innovative methods of using primary sources to teach about the Holocaust. You will return to your students with lesson ideas that emphasize critical thinking, elicit curiosity, and analyze texts for teaching Holocaust history in social studies, English language arts, humanities, and history classes.