Oskar schindler biography timeline graphic organizers

  • This handout contains a reading about Oskar Schindler, Holocaust Hero, and contains a mixture of multiple choice and short answer questions about him.
  • This resource includes a three-page film guide in both PDF and fully-editable MS WORD formats, as well as an answer key.
  • Provide students with the Story Arc Graphic Organizer included here, or another similar organizer, and have them identify the key components of Schindler's.

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    USC Shoah Foundation’s first podcast, We Share The Same Sky, seeks to brings the past into present through a granddaughter’s decade-long journey to retrace her grandmother’s story of survival. We Share The Same Sky tells the two stories of these women—the grandmother, Hana, a refugee who remained one step ahead of the Nazis at every turn, and the granddaughter, Rachael, on a search to retrace her grandmother’s history.



    A self-portrait of Rachael while she is living on a Danish farm that is owned by the granddaughter of Hana’s foster mother from World War II. Photo by Rachael Cerrotti, 2017

    In order to enhance its classroom use, USC Shoah Foundation and Echoes & Reflections have created a Companion Educational Resource to support teachers as they introduce the podcast to their students. This document provides essential questions for students, as well as additional resources and content to help build context and framing for students’ understanding of the historical events

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    The Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute

    The film portrays the devastation of European Jewry and its communities. How life fragments could hang in the balance of one German soldier or another. It is not a picture of an isolated pogrom in Russia or Poland. Instead, it fryst vatten a film attesting to Hitler's program for the "final solution" of European Jewry. Yet in the middle of this chaos, Spielberg builds up a personality of an exceptional magnitude. And thanks to such courage and individual fortitude, it is klar that humanity has not completely lost all remnants of dignity. Spielberg, a Jew himself, whose parents are European in ursprung, felt compelled to show that humanity can still cling to hope, that evil can be overcome if one has the courage to try. Trying to fight under unjust conditions like the Holocaust requires a substantially stronger moral fiber of heroism than most people possess. One who possessed this courage was Oskar Schindler.

    Schindler fryst vatten a righteous Gentile who made