Over the first few years of the existence of Asociatia Tikvah we have produced original travelling exhibitions derived from our own (and other people's) research; performed our own editing and sub-titling of videos; created downloadable Powerpoints/PDFs and lesson plans.

All these are provided without cost to teachers and we have created a separate website to make them available. We hope that you will take a moment to review them, use them and provide us with feedback. 

  

Human Rights through the Prism of the Holocaust 

One of our projects that is not held on the new website is Human Rights through the Prism of the Holocaust which was developed in the period March to December 2013 in conjunction with Onisfor Ghibu High School and with the approval of the regional Education Authorities. It was co-ordinated in the school by social sciences teacher Lilla Sandor, and together with Emilia Teszler from Asociatia Tikvah, they formed an enthusiastic team.

This project was funded by a generous anonymous donor from the USA and consisted of eight distinct lessons. 

  

The first two lessons 

The first lesson covered the subject of the Final Solution devised by the Nazi regime to wipe out the Jewish population and the subsequent development of the international agreements on Human Rights. The second focused on the use of propaganda, the links between prejudice, discrimination and genocide and an understanding of the nature of bullying.

 

                                  Emilia Teszler and Lilla Sandor explaining to pupils the project Human Rights through

the Prism of the Holocaust 

     Pupils actively illustrating individual human rights 

Understanding the pyramid of hate 

Working in groups

 

 

The third lesson

The theme of the third month was Human Rights and Communism. 

The introduction from Asociatia Tikvah was well received by pupils and was supplemented by presentations looking back at the communist regime. 

 

 The fifth lesson

We showed the award-winning film “David” which tells the story of Daud, an 11 year-old religious Muslim boy, growing up in Brooklyn, New York.

Concealing his Muslim identity, Daud inadvertently befriends a group of Jewish boys who, through a series of mistakes, think he is Jewish and accept him as one of their own.

Asociatia Tikvah had added Romanian sub-titles to the film for younger pupils and after the showing of the film there were lively debates on the nature and extent of prejudice.

As one pupil put on his blog “The atmosphere was hot, many people came up with all sorts of diverse arguments and as ever it showed not everyone agrees with everyone else”. 

 

 Assembling for the debate 

 

The sixth lesson

Emilia and Maia Teszler participated in an event to remember the Holocaust  in Romania day. Pupils produced a presentation both on the developments of the Holocaust generally and on the events within Romania, as it is today. 

Asociatia Tikvah also presented prizes to those students who had provided significant contributions to Holocaust remembrance during the project. 

The seventh and eighth lessons