Teaching Salvaged Pages
A series of in-depth, interdisciplinary lessons developed by the author and a team of teachers working in cooperation with Facing History and Ourselves to support the use of Salvaged Pages in middle- and high-school classrooms. Learn the History is aligned for Social Studies and Read and Reflect is geared toward English Language Arts. There are also interdisciplinary and intertextual lessons on a variety of topics and themes. You may access the lessons through this finding aid. They are all hyperlinked and easy to download.
Topic/Theme Chart for Salvaged Pages
This simple chart provides a navigational tool for finding diary entries in Salvaged Pages that align with commonly taught topics and themes in the Holocaust. Teachers will find the name of the diarist, entry date, and page numbers linked to the writer’s wartime experience (refugee, hiding, or ghettoes,) the subject of the entry, and the topic or theme that it covers. This may be useful for teachers who are not able to use the full lesson plans in Facing History’s Teaching Salvaged Pages but want to find diary entries to bring into classroom use.
Teaching I’m Still Here
A companion study guide designed to support classroom use of the documentary film I'm Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust, developed by the author in cooperation with the educational organization Facing History and Ourselves.
The guide helps educators use the diaries of young writers featured in the film and in Salvaged Pages as a springboard for discussion and reflection on their value as historical sources and literary records. It also provides an avenue for discussing the power of the written word to make a difference in the world.
Lecture at Yad Vashem
Alexandra Zapruder delivers a lecture about Salvaged Pages at the Ninth International Conference on Holocaust Education organized by the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem, Israel (July 7-10, 2014.)
The conference brought together Holocaust survivors, scholars, educators and artists from four generations. Over 400 participants from 50 different countries engaged in an educational, intergenerational and multicultural dialogue on how we will preserve the legacy and grapple with the challenges of Holocaust education in the years to come.
Lecture at Museum of Jewish Heritage
Alexandra Zapruder delivers a lecture about Salvaged Pages at the Sixteenth Annual Fanya Gottesfeld Heller Conference for Educators at The Museum of Jewish Heritage in New York City (April 23, 2015.) Other presenters included Dr. Michael Berenbaum and a presentation of The Living Words Award to Nobel Laureate, Elie Wiesel.
Voices on Antisemitism Podcast
Alexandra Zapruder is interviewed by Daniel Greene for Voices on Antisemitism, a podcast created by the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, featuring a broad range of perspectives about antisemitism and hatred today. (March 27, 2008)