Presenting on the importance of teaching the Holocaust and genocide to teachers from around Louisiana as part of the Annual Back to School Brunch for Northwestern State University Writing Project Teacher Consultants in Summer 2011.

Presenting on using photos, poetry, and technology to teach the Holocaust at the 2nd Annual Louisiana Literacy Lagniappe Conference at Northwestern State University in August 2011.

Dr. William Housel from NSU has been visiting my students at the high school and helping them adapt a scene from Macbeth. The students decided to reset the time period to Nazi Germany, and they are working very hard to do their very best work. They conducted reseach, wrote essays, and now they're putting all of that together to create an adaptation.

THis is a Torah ark decoration from the late 1800s or early 1900s. It decorated a Torah ark in a synagogue on South Seventh Street in Philadelphia. I saw this in Washington, DC, at the Smithsonian.

Visiting the Holocaust Museum Houston.

Cattle car at the Holocaust Museum Houston

T's using the USC Shoah Foundation's iWitness website to make her own video using clips from Holocaust survivors. My students will present their videos to the class and master teachers starting April 9th. The administration and teachers and students from other classes will also be invited to attend.

A couple of my students and I with Director Gaylen Ross at the showing of her documentary, Killing Kasztner: The Jew Who Dealth With Nazis.

3/29/2012
My project was about hereos during the Holocaust. Some of the hereos where a nun who hid Jews in her convent building, a man who helped smuggle Jewish children, and a preist who died in place of another man. I want people to remember that not everyone just did what they were told to do. Some people did resist.

3/29/2012
For my project I created a scrapbook about the Holocaust. It included many topics like the crematoriums, locations of death camps, quotes from Holocaust survivors, and short biographys of children that were murdered. I titled my scrapbook, "So Others Will Remember" to honor those who perished because of this horrific genocide. I hope…[Read more]

3/29/2012

My project was designed to look like a target board, with the different areas shaped like the Star of David, a symbol of the Jewish religion. The target board idea respresents how Jews were the main target during the Holocaust genocide, and the word genocide is at the top. Each section of the board represents something different…[Read more]

This painting is a representation of the lives lost in the Holocaust. The black background represents the horror of the Holocaust; the triangles in the top right corner symbolizes the patches people were forced to wear; handprints symbolized children lost.

D's final creative project was based on the system of transport used to liquidate the ghettos.

J presenting her work, which was our take on the identity box.

Hands down, Big Irv is my favorite person ever! 🙂