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Artistic Creations of the Auschwitz Prisoners. Educational Materials for Teachers

The International Center for Education about Auschwitz and the Holocaust has released a collection of lesson plans entitled, Artistic Creations of the Auschwitz Prisoners. Educational Materials for Teachers. The materials prepared are based on the album Suffering and Hope. Artistic Creations of the Auschwitz Prisoners, created under the care of Jerzy Dałek and Teresa Świebocka. The lesson plans are created for educational work done with students in their third year of secondary school and above. In addition, the lesson plan materials prepared by practicing teachers are excellent help while choosing the method of teaching about the tragic history of Auschwitz.

Among the educational help in the lesson plan materials for teachers are chosen fragments of testimony by former prisoners as well as photographs, artwork, and letters, from the Collections Department and Archive of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum in Oświęcim.