Teaching material on the Holocaust
The Holocaust as a school subject:
Bilingual teaching resource on film for history lessons
Now that the process of coming to terms with the history of Switzerland during the Second World War has taken place, teaching in schools is increasingly facing up to the Holocaust as well. By way of a contribution to Holocaust education in Switzerland, the SIG published the teaching resource ‘Survive and Tell’. In moving interviews, six Jewish Holocaust survivors give an account of their fate that was intimately connected with politics and society in Switzerland between 1933 and 1948.
In this publication, the publishers and authors develop a specific educational approach for Switzerland geared to the special position of the country in the Second World War.
Interviews with six contemporary witnesses currently living in Switzerland form the backbone of the DVD. The interviews are in either French or German, with each one subtitled in the other language. Two other interviews with historians, members of the Bergier Commission, comment on the personal reports and put them into a wider historical context.
The DVD also contains a collection of source texts and highly interesting material which should act as a stimulus for further research on the subject. In the accompanying booklet, two specialists in history teaching methods discuss issues surrounding the Holocaust and give a range of creative ideas for the teaching of the subject. The discussion reflects the different teaching traditions prevalent in the German and French speaking parts of Switzerland.
Details:
DVD and accompanying booklet for classroom teaching
112 pages, CHF 45.00
Bilingual version published by Verlag Pestalozzianum and Les éditions ies 2007
ISBN 978-3-03755-056-4
Obtainable on order from the teaching resource publishers for the Canton of Zürich:
The resource ‘Survive and Tell’ has two objectives: using the ‘Oral History’ resources to create an interest in young people for the historical event, and to stimulate them to reflect on prejudices, racism and anti-Semitism and get them to act responsibly in the present.
Contributors to the resource:
Gabrielle Antosiewicz, film director, Alexandra Binnenkade, historian, history teaching specialist; Monique Eckmann, sociologist, Technical University Professor at the Haute Ecole de Travail Social, Geneva; Charles Heimberg, historian, history teaching specialist; Marc Perrenoud, historian, Eva Pruschy, Educational Officer with the Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities; Gregor Spuhler, historian.