Holocaust Survivor Project

Holocaust Witness and Remembrance

“For the dead and the living, we must bear witness”—Elie Wiesel, Night.

Goal:  Your task is to create and generate a written, oral, or visual project that will reflect on the life of a Holocaust survivor. 

Your project must address responses to the following three questions:

·        How was your survivor impacted by intolerance during the Holocaust? (what happened to them)

·        How do positivity and hopefulness influence seemingly doomed environments and situations? (how they coped)

·        How are humans strengthened by other humans and an experience like they had during the Holocaust? (how their lives were affected as a result of their experience)

Over the next few days: 

You must select a survivor whose story you will retell when we return to school next week.  Use this website to explore the life of a survivor: http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/phistories/

or a similar website of your own finding. 

You will begin a project of your choice. 

You must select a partner from your LA class or a student from the same period in Mr. Tategenhorst/Miss Drosdick’s class. (We will all be working together in one location.)

Ideas include:

Written	Oral **these will be presented to the class so be prepared to share them with the class or the special guest	Visual **all visual components must include a written portion explaining why you made decisions to use specific medium of materials, captions, etc.
Written	Oral	Visual
·        Biography ·        Brochure for a trip through the person’s life ·        Blog diary ·        Wiki page biography ·        Itinerary for a trip to meet the person, go to their hometown, through where they went to survive, and where their life took them afterwards (this includes flights, locations of places) ·        Essay ·        historical nonfiction writing piece ·        journal entries by the person in a crafty journal ·        letter to the person ·        magazine article ·        play (with a written script) about their experiences (like the adaptation we read) ·        poems totaling 50 lines	·        oral history talking about the person’s life (media file) ·        radio script interview ·        raps totaling 50 lines ·        songs totaling 50 lines ·        informative and animated speech (in character) ·        recorded personal instrumental piece created (with a written component about why you made musical changes in tone, tempo, instrument, etc)	·        Graphic novel adaptation of survivor’s story (must have scenes) ·        design a 3-D memorial statue and an engraving in honor of the survivor ·        design a museum display dedicated to your person ·        painting ·        scrapbook ·        sculpture representing their life ·        Prezi ·        Animoto video ·        Movie maker ·        Digital storytelling ·        Website ·