Pedagogical Guide - Teaching history through the use of World War II memorials
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Pedagogical Guide
Read our essay on the memorial landscape in Europe and some pedagogical recommendations on how to incorporate memorial sites into history education.
Learning Activities
The learning activities can be adapted to other memorials local to you, or used as they are.
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Memorials in the past, present, and future using the example of Museum Berlin-Karlshorst
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The Stumbling Stones project as an example of victim commemoration
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A forgotten page of history: the Chișinău ghetto
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World War II memorials from the perspective of the Șerpeni Bridgehead Memorial
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Lessons from the camps: how to learn about violations of basic human rights by visiting a former World War II concentration/extermination camp
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The Katyń massacre: human rights and the Katyń lie
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Pavlov’s House and Gerhard’s Mill as reminders of the devastating consequences of World War II
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Using the Rzhev War Memorial to learn about the ‘hushing-up’ of history