Presentations, Lessons and Videos

CSA Presentations

Each year we invite experts – scholars, journalists, activists – to present to CSA participants, as well as veteran Centropa teachers who present their successful, classroom-tested lessons and projects. Below are PowerPoint slide decks and lessons presented during this year’s CSA.

Day 1. – July 5.

Introductory presentations to Centropa resources

The Missing House by Nina Sasportas

See the project film on the Centropa website: http://www.centropa.org/border-jumping/school/judische-oberschule-berlin/missing-house-jewish-past-and-present-and-around

The Conflict by Amos Raban

Download presentation: Amos Raban – The Conflict

Day 4. – July 8.

Panel discussion: “How do we teach the Cold War?”

Cold War taught in the US by Charles Vaughan

Download presentation: cvaughan-ColdWarFINAL_small

Cold War taught in Israel by Amos Raban

Download presentation: Amos Raban – Teaching the Cold War in Israel

Day 5. – July 9.

Presentation after the screening of the newest film of Centropa, “Zahor – Remember”

Zahor – Remember by Michael Heitz and Alan Götz

The newest film of Centropa, Zahor – Remember, tells the story of Menachem Mayer and Fred Raymes, who grew up in the South German village of Hoffenheim in Baden Württemberg. The film is narrated by Ilay Elmkies, an Israeli teenager who plays for the TSG Hoffenheim youth soccer team. The presentation of Micahel Heitz and Alan Götz explains how this film has been used in class in Germany.

Download presentation: PPT_Zachor_Berlin_8.7.2018_new

Presentations of the “Marketplace of Ideas”

Crossing Borders Project by Phillip Goebbels

The goal of this lesson is to open the students’ eyes regarding possibilities and opportunities in crossing borders between religions.

Download presentation: Goebbels – CrossignBorderProject

Find the lesson on the Centropa website: http://www.centropa.org/de/teaching-materials/uberleben-sarajewo

Teaching History by Alesia Golovko

Using the Centropa film, “Maps, Central Europe and History,” in this lesson high school students explore the changing borders of Europe.

Download presentation: Golovko, Alesia, Teaching History

Download lesson plan: Golovko, Alesia, lesson plan

Courageous People Project by Karolina Morton

Students work on the questions of “what is an act of moral courage” and “what is required to act courageously,” exploring the past and the present to discover courageous acts and/or courageous people.

Download presentation: Morton, Courageous people project

Find lesson on the Centropa website: http://www.centropa.org/de/border-jumping/school/prywatne-gimnazjum-jezykowe-parnas/courageous-people-0

Roots History Project by Lowell Blackman

Students choose a family member or another person, and use modern technologies to create a film presenting the story of that person.

Presentation and lesson materials available on the Centropa website: http://www.centropa.org/teaching-materials/my-family-and-my-roots-film-project

The Other Project by Jeffrey Ellison

Students in Chicago, Berlin, and Skopje explored minorities in each of their cultures.

Download presentation: Ellison, The Other Project

The Poem Project by Rina Lund

Students select a poet who lived during the Shoa and wrote poetry about it, research the poet’s biography, and then finds a Centropa interviewee who lived in similar surroundings (city ,town ,village) to compare.

Download lesson: Rina Lund, Poem Project lesson

The Conflict by Amos Raban

Teaching civics and 21st century skills in a multi-cultural society. Encouraging students to be proactive citizens and teachers to be proactive educators.

Download presentation: Amos Raban – The Conflict

Day 6. – July 10.

Presentation following the Centropa film “A bookstore in six chapters”.

Beautiful People by Evgenia Doulami

The presentation shows how the Centropa films on the Balkans, “A bookstore in six chapters” and “Three promises” can be used in elementary school.

Download presentation: Doulami, Beautiful people

Presentations following the Centropa film “Survival in Sarajevo”.

Survival in Sarajevo: the exhibition, by Marijan Misic

The presentation shows how the Survival in Sarajevo film and the accompanying exhibition has been used in education in Nis, Serbia.

Download presentation: Marijan Misic, Sarajevo in Serbia

Download lesson: Maijan Misic, Sarajevo in Serbia lesson

Beyond Boundaries by Jerome Price

The fourth and final unit Jerome Price teaches each year is entitled “A Nation Divided and Rebuilt.” The content begins with the events leading up to the American Civil War, moves to the actual fighting of the war, and ends with the period of Reconstruction. Specifically, this unit highlights the economic, political and social tension that ensued between the North and South throughout the mid to late 1800s. Though the harsh realities endured during the Bosnian War occurred over one hundred years later, Jerome pushes his historians to draw connections to the concepts of change and unity beyond difference.

Presentation and lesson available on the Centropa website: http://www.centropa.org/teaching-materials/beyond-boundaries

From Sarajevo to Szolnok by László Tóth

As part of the Common Ground Project of Centropa, three Hungarian schools decided to work together and build a project around the Survival in Sarajevo film and exhibition. The students came from different backgrounds: from Budapest and the countryside, and there were Roma, Jews, and Muslims among them. Inspired by the story of Survival in Sarajevo, they visited each other’s schools, learned from each other, and presented the exhibition together during the official opening in the Israeli Cultural Institute.

Watch the fim created about this project on the Centropa website: http://www.centropa.org/de/border-jumping/school/sarajevo-szolnok

Day 7. – July 11.

Panel discussion: “How countries cope with their past”.

How countries cope with their past – the Polish case by Marzanna Pogorzelska

Download presentation: Dealing with the past – a Polish case

How I use Trans.History by Anna Olenenko

Download presentation: Olenenko_CSA2018

Elective videos

Teachers sign up to take the video elective because they are interested in learning how to make a video – and boy do they! In 7 days they have a crash course in narrative storytelling, filmography, audio, and editing. Working together, or sometimes individually, the below videos represent an extraordinary amount of work within the 7 days of the CSA – including evenings and free time – as well as the mentoring and help of our video coordinator Alex Treyger (United States), and Centropa’s own talented filmmaker, Wolfi Els.

Regina Jonas

Created by Matthew Wynne and Phillip Goebbels

Keep the Memory Alive

Created by Georgia Asvesta

Victims of the Wall

Created by Miljenko Hajdarovic

Ada Sereni

Created by Rina Lund

Saba Yakov

Created by Amos Raban, Ayelet Drori and Judith Nockemann

Memories of women in Berlin

Created by Adrienn Nagy and Ágnes László

Berlin – A visual experience

Created by Andrae Walker

Be(rl)in Home(less)

Created by Igor Radulovic

Where are we now?

Created by Cristiano Alves and Kevin Williams