We offer the following LIVE Zoom interactive workshops and presentations which you can book on a date/time of your choice for groups of 25-30. Please choose from any of the Interactive Field Trips listed below. You can also combine multiple sessions for a broader experience.
Each module is designed to cover a classroom period (approx. 50 minutes). Modules are $250 each for a classroom of 25-30 students. Limited grant funding is available.
Your students will experience a virtual exploration of the dynamic MOT exhibit, Anne, to discover her story through carefully curated research that challenges many popular assumptions. The session will shed light on Anne's family background and reveal little known details of Anne's childhood, as shared in personal testimony by her last remaining relative, cousin Buddy Elias, exclusively for the MOT. We will also examine rare artifacts and discover fascinating connections between Anne Frank and the U.S. The session concludes with the period after the arrest, imprisonment and deportation of everyone from the Secret Annex. Students will be inspired, anew, by the legacy and lessons of her writing and indomitable voice. This workshop focuses on the theme of identity. In understanding more about Anne we gain tools to help better understand ourselves and those around us.
In Holocaust education, students resonate especially with modules that examine the Holocaust through the lenses and voices of other children. As the Holocaust's most tragic victims, children were also resilient resisters. This module led by a skilled MOT Youth Educator offers an introduction to the Holocaust through primary documents and interactive activities. This module will introduce students to major themes including the use of propaganda, effects of dehumanization and roles & responsibilities of ordinary people in effecting change.
The Museum of Tolerance offer its "Bridging the Gap" program to connect students virtually with Holocaust Survivors to hear their stories first-hand and bring history to life. To hear a Survivor story is to become a witness to history. This is an unforgettable experience of which we are in the last years. Students (middle and high school) praise it as a highlight of their school year. The session is 60 minutes and is delivered via Zoom, administered by one of our staff members. Survivor speakers share photos and artifacts online, and ensure time for Q&A.
