Survivor Interview

Subject: Foreign Language

Grade Levels: 3 through 12

Objectives:

Sunshine State Standards: View all Sunshine State Standards

Background:

Florida Holocaust museums and organizations maintain speakers bureaus, through which schools can arrange for a Holocaust survivor to visit the school to speak to students. Local community organizations have speakers, also. See Resources for a contact in your area.

Procedure:

Contact a speaker's bureau and arrange for a Holocaust survivor or historian fluent in the class language to speak with the class. Have students write questions in advance.

Variation:

Search the Internet for an e-mail address of a Holocaust survivor or expert who agrees to communicate with language students via e-mail.

Resources:

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
Produced by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology,
College of Education, University of South Florida © 2005.


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