"Survivor testimony" refers to a firsthand account or narrative given by someone who has experienced a difficult or traumatic event and managed to survive it.
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Photos and snippets
of survivor testimony serve as reminders of the cost of prejudice and discrimination.
This webinar reviews how to plan effectively for survivor visits to classroom settings, as well as how to use our
online survivor testimony resource collection with students.
Students place this ongoing crisis in historical context, view footage from a refugee camp, and reflect
on survivor testimony.
Learn about Facing History's new testimony collection and the IWitness educational platform, as well as strategies for using
survivor testimony in the classroom.
Earlier this month, Facing History and USC Shoah Foundation co-hosted their first joint professional development webinar, Survivors and Witnesses:
Using Survivor Testimony in the Classroom.
Facing History's Guide to
Exploring Survivor Testimony provides an extremely useful checklist for educators, as well as lesson ideas, teaching strategies, and resources for making the experience of engaging with testimony as rich and meaningful as possible.
It provided information and strategies for using
IWitness survivor testimony in the classroom in conjunction with Facing History's Holocaust and Human Behavior.
Marrying VR technology with first -
hand survivor testimony from Hiroshima, virtual reality experience The Day the World Changed is set to premiere at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival.
Trained facilitators offer practical information in a format that combines in - person teaching and video recordings
featuring survivor testimony.
Facing History teachers remark on the power
of survivor testimony to help students process the horrors of the Holocaust.
With fewer and fewer living witnesses to Operation Reinhard,
survivor testimonies are increasingly hard to come by, and while such testimonies are exceedingly valuable, they may be incomplete or contradictory.
As a young teenager, she'd met several survivors, and while working at her local library, she pored over
the survivor testimonies she found, struggling to wrap her mind around the immensity of the Nazis» crimes.
Topics: To Kill a Mockingbird, Books, Facing History Resources, Memoir, Facing History and Ourselves,
Survivor Testimony, Reading, Reading List
Topics: Classrooms, Civil Rights Movement, Teaching Strategies, Poetry, Teaching Resources,
Survivor Testimony, Video, History
Topics: English Language Arts, Poetry, Writing, Genocide / Collective Violence,
Survivor Testimony, ELA, Holocaust Education, IWitness
Survivor testimonies — firsthand accounts from individuals who lived through genocide and other atrocities — help students more deeply appreciate and empathize with the human and inhuman dimensions of important moments in history.
Topics: Webinar, Antisemitism,
Survivor Testimony, Experiential education, EdTech, Holocaust Education, Online Learning, Facing Technology
Class each day revolved around listening to
survivor testimony, closely reading a chunk of text from one of our anchor texts, Soundless Roar and Night by Elie Wiesel, and discussing our inferences.
According to witness and
survivor testimonies, Shapono was burned and attacked with firearms and explosives.»