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This curriculum was created by the Jewish Family and Children’s Services Holocaust Center and Contra Costa Midrasha.
This curriculum was created by the Jewish Family and Children’s Services Holocaust Center and Contra Costa Midrasha. The guide explores the role music, theater, and art played as a tool for survival during the Holocaust. It highlights several case studies, including the fascinating story of Charlotte Salomon.
The following curriculum has been compiled to assist educators faced with the challenge of teaching the Holocaust and genocide in their classrooms. Lessons of this nature can fall into various aspects of a school’s curriculum. The lessons presented at this workshop are designed with the flexibility to complement a History, English, Social Studies, Music or Art class. This lesson is not to be used as a standalone unit. The class must have had at least a few days of general Holocaust education prior to the use of this lesson.
Art as a Tool for Survival has been created with the intention of introducing visual and oral mediums of the Holocaust. This curriculum might supplement or provide additional engagement tools to your current Holocaust curriculum. Art as a Tool for Survival strives to exercise the imagination and teach empathy to your students.
The JFCS Holocaust Center designs lessons targeted for high school students. The Holocaust is a very sensitive and emotional subject and exposing children to the horrors of Nazi Europe too young could be devastating. As teachers ourselves, we recommend to take caution when working with children younger than high school age.
The following curriculum includes sources from the 2011 exhibition Charlotte Salomon: Life? Or Theatre? at The Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco which adds a unique and exciting resource for your classroom. Each lesson has complementary resources, which can be checked out by appointment from the JFCS Holocaust Center. Included with the curriculum is a glossary and chronology for the events presented.
Curriculum created by Morgan N. Blum, Director of Education JFCS Holocaust Center, and Devra Aarons, Executive Director Contra Costa Midrasha.
This curriculum was created by the Jewish Family and Children’s Services Holocaust Center and Contra Costa Midrasha.
Charlotte Salomon: Life? Or Theatre? was organized by the Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam, and was specially created by Dr. Sabine Schulze, director at the Hamburger Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, and Edward van Voolen, curator of the Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam. All works in the exhibition are from the Joods Historisch Museum, Amsterdam. Copyright holder is the Charlotte Salomon Foundation.
The San Francisco presentation has been made possible by the generous and visionary support of Dorothy R. Saxe; Lydia and Doug Shorenstein; Roselyne Chroman Swig; Laszlo N. Tauber Family Foundation; Jim Joseph Foundation; Phyllis Moldaw; Jewish Community Endowment Holocaust Memorial/Education Fund of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin and Sonoma Counties; and the Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany—San Francisco. This project is also supported by several other individuals and public funds from the Netherlands Cultural Services.
The exhibition publication has been made possible by the thoughtful support of the Brill Family Foundation, Karen and Michael Zeff, and Luba Troyanovsky.
The Koret and Taube Foundations are the lead supporters of the 2010–11 exhibition season.
Header image: Charlotte Salomon, Gouache from Life? or Theatre?, 1940-1942, Villefranche, France. Collection Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam. Copyright Charlotte Salomon Foundation.