Schools 2016 WHERE HISTORY HAS A VOICE Our Next Contents Chapter: This publication is dedicated to A major the memory of the Plotke family renovation 2017 General Program 2 The Sydney Jewish Museum (SJM) is pleased to present a range of education Guide Tours during the programs for 2016. All SJM education In 2017, our new Holocaust 2016 Museum Renovation 3 exhibition will open. programs are inquiry based, linked Modern History 5 to The Board of Studies Teaching It will include: and Educational Standards syllabus History outcomes and can be tailored to meet A multimedia-enriched National Curriculum Stage 5 10 class needs. Bookings are essential for experience for students HSC History Programs 11 all programs. and teachers, including HSC History Extension Please call the SJM Education innovative new ways of Part II History Project 16 Department on 9360 7999 or email engaging with Holocaust Studies of Religion 17 [email protected] to make your Survivor testimony booking. Prices vary according to English 21 program. No charge for teachers. The latest in historical Legal Studies 25 research and thinking Confronting Bullying 27 Australia’s connections to Gifted and Talented Program / the events of the Holocaust Developing an Ethical Framework 28 PRIORITY FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES With the generous support of the Archie Professional Development and Yetta Hendler Foundation, the 2016 Opportunities for teachers Sydney Jewish Museum is pleased to at the Sydney Jewish Museum offerfree entry to students from New In 2016 we will continue in 2016 29 South Wales Priority Funded Schools. The Museum is also able to assist Priority to offer our world class Resource Materials 32 Funded Schools with transportation education programs - costs. To take advantage of this offer, including the opportunity FRONT JOSEPH (JOE) SYMON please inform the education officer that HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR GUIDE your school qualifies. to hear the testimony of a BORN 1925 IN BUDAPEST, HUNGARY Holocaust Survivor and to BACK KATHLEEN (KITTY) LOWINGER HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR GUIDE Please note funding is allocated on participate in seminars BORN 1941 IN BUDAPEST, HUNGARY a first come, first served basis and is with Museum educators. SURVIVOR PHOTOGRAPHS BY KATHERINE GRIFFITH limited to one excursion per school. See Page 3 for more information 1 General Guided Tours Program During the A two hour Museum experience, including testimony from a Holocaust Survivor and a 2016 Museum guided tour of our temporary Museum space Renovation The SJM general program has Years 5–8 (Stages 3 & 4): HSIE, Civics & During the 2016 renovation, all students applicability across the national Citizenship, History, English will have the opportunity to explore the curriculum with particular relevance Years 9–10 (Stage 5): following temporary exhibitions: to the key syllabus areas noted below. Elective History Topic 6 Changing Rights Utilizing Holocaust history as & Freedoms a framework, teachers can engage Depth Study 1 Making a Better World, Anne Frank: students in discussion of the related Movement of Peoples A History for Today issues of racism, intolerance and Depth Study 2 Australia and Asia, Examines the life of Anne Frank, which persecution that continue to beset our Making a Nation includes an overview of the history of the world. The general program can be Holocaust with a particular focus on the adapted to focus on key syllabus areas Core Study – Depth Study 3 Australians at War (World Wars I and II) Frank family's plight. as requested by the class teacher. Mandatory Study Students will learn about the experience of Jews and other victims of Nazi Core Study – Depth Study 4 persecution through oral testimony and Rights and Freedoms (1945–present) Signs of Life - Letters of examining key displays and artefacts. Mandatory study the Holocaust Depth Study 5 The Globalising World, Showcases the letters and postcards Migration experiences, Site Study $8/student sent by those destined for the ‘Final Years 11–12 (Stage 6): Preliminary Solution’. This collection reveals the Course: Part 1, Teacher Developed personal dimension of the Jewish Case Study; HSC Modern History: Part experience during the Holocaust and II: National Studies Option C: Germany illustrates that even through the darkest National Study 1918-1939; Part IV: tragedies, hope and humanity remains. International Studies in Peace and Conflict Option B: Conflict in Europe 1935-1945 TOP © PHOTO COLLECTION OF THE ANNE FRANK STICHTING AMSTERDAM BOTTOM HELENE LEVY, TEREZÍN GHETTO-CONCENTRATION CAMP, TO HER DAUGHTER SELMA, LÜDENSCHEID, GERMANY, 1943. 2 3 Modern History SJM History programs cater to a variety of key syllabus areas in NSW Modern History Stages 4, 5 and 6 ANNE FRANK: A GIRL WRITES HISTORY Three-hour interactive program includes workshop with Museum educator, firsthand Years 5-8 (Stages 3 & 4): HSIE, Civics & testimony of a Survivor of the Holocaust Citizenship, History, English and a specialized tour of the temporary Years 9-10 (Stage 5): Elective History exhibitions Anne Frank: A History for Today Topic 6 Changing Rights & Freedoms; and Signs of Life: Letters of the Holocaust. Depth Study 1 Making a Better World, $10/student Movement of Peoples Years 11-12 (Stage 6): HSC Modern History: Part II: National Studies Option C: Germany National Study 1918-1939; Part IV: International Studies in Peace and Conflict Option B: Conflict in Europe 1935-1945 On 28 March 1944, Anne Frank heard a special news report on the radio “Mr. Bolkestein, the requesting that Dutch people record Cabinet Minister, their wartime experiences and collect speaking on the documents. For over two years, Anne had kept a detailed record of her thoughts, Dutch Broadcast from feelings, and daily living conditions London, said that after during the Nazi occupation. Upon this announcement, Anne began to revise, the war, a collection edit, and rewrite portions of her diary in would be made of preparation for post-war publication. diaries and letters.” In this seminar, students will analyze the ANNE FRANK (DIARY ENTRY MARCH 29, 1944) diary as a primary source by engaging with the multiple versions of Anne’s diary. Students will come to greater understanding about the ways in which artefacts shape the way we come to understand history, and connect a moment in history with a person’s life, © PHOTO COLLECTION OF THE ANNE FRANK STICHTING AMSTERDAM a set of values and beliefs. 4 5 RESISTING THE HOLOCAUST CONSTRUCTING HISTORY: Three hour program includes interactive GENOCIDE IN THE 20th AND 21st session with Museum educator (including Years 6-10 (Stages 3, 4 & 5): English, UNEARTHING THE HOLOCAUST CENTURIES artefact analysis), first-hand testimony of Studies of Religion and History. Years 7–8 (Stage 4 & 5): Elective Years 9–10 (Stages 4 & 5): Elective a Holocaust Survivor and guided tour of History, Topic 1 Constructing History History, Topic 4 The Shaping of the Stage 5 Depth Study 6: The Holocaust Museum. Teaching materials are available. Year 11 (Stage 6): Preliminary Course, $10/student Modern World The old image, still prevalent today, that Part II: The Historical Investigation, Students will have the opportunity to Jews went ‘like lambs to the slaughter’ Ancient History (Archaeology) explore the concept and examples of falls into the realm of historical legend. genocide in the 20th and 21st centuries Jews resisted the Nazi genocide, in UNEARTHING THE HOLOCAUST and its impact on the modern world. groups or as individuals, in public or in represents a unique chapter in In a facilitated workshop, students will hiding. Their strategies of defence and Australia’s history. It details the develop an understanding of the origins survival took many forms. Resisting the atrocities committed against the Jewish of the legal definition of genocide and Holocaust highlights the courageous inhabitants of Serniki, a small village in the debates surrounding its definition. acts of resistance by Jews during the the Ukraine. The archaeological and Focus will be placed on the early Holocaust. Focusing on Jewish resistance, historical exploration of this killing site stages of genocide, particularly the this program looks at the individual formed the material evidence for the segregation, marginalisation, and experiences of Jews who were able to Australian War Crimes Trials that took place in South Australia between 1991 Hear Mark Aarons speak at the Sydney Jewish dehumanisation of victim groups. fight back, either through armed means Museum | 18 August 2016 | $15/student Students will be encouraged to explore or simply by not giving up their ideals and 1993. The SJM is the repository of Mark Aarons, an international award-winning the archaeological evidence that was the moral dilemmas of victims and and beliefs. investigative reporter and the author of War recovered at the excavation. Through Criminals Welcome: Australia, a Sanctuary for bystanders. Students will also gain an Three hour program includes interactive viewing the exhibition and participating War Criminals since 1945, will speak about how insight into the impact of such atrocities session with Museum educator (including in a workshop led by the Chief Historian and why he exposed Nazi war criminals in on the Survivors of genocide through Australia and prompted changes to Australian artefact analysis), first-hand testimony of of the Australian War Crimes Special the experience of hearing Holocaust a Holocaust Survivor and a specialized tour federal law. Mark Aarons stunning revelations Investigation Unit, Emeritus Professor forced