Teaching Holocaust Memory through Archival and Original Arts: Personal and Community Expression

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This course honors the Jews' remarkable creativity amidst the horrors of WWII ghettos and concentration camps. Participants learn about Holocaust musicians, artists and writers, many of whom were children. Inspiration will be drawn by brave teachers and their students who found solace and spiritual resistance by creating lullabies, work songs, partisan anthems, lamentations, drawings, paintings, self-portraits, jewelry, ritual items, plays, cabarets, poetry, diaries, clandestine writings, choirs, chamber music, operettas and much more.