Interdisciplinary Holocaust Education: Using Music and Art Created in the Ghettos and Camps

Catalog description

Educators teaching diverse subjects develop seamless interdisciplinary strategies to hook and engage students through archival Holocaust art and music. Jewish children and adults trapped in ghettos and concentration camps turned to the arts for solace, solidarity, and spiritual resistance. We will lean into the lives and experiences of people of all ages and ethnicities who composed imploring and brave music, sketched and painted raw and enchanting artworks, secretly self-published imaginative and timely writing, brazenly photographed victims, bystanders and up standers, and documented scientific and mathematically based atrocities through sadistic and sarcastic song lyrics and melodies. Special attention will be placed on the talented Holocaust teenagers who demonstrated courage, resourcefulness, and creativity.