This section focuses on civic engagement and the importance of humanizing refugees.
Exercise Overview
View these short videos of child refugees from WWII, from The United Stated Holocaust Memorial Museum and Facing History. Answer the questions on Holocaust Child Refugees worksheet.
View the slideshow Migration and Refugees Today to see current images.
Read the following excerpts about refugees today:
Student in groups will draw anchor charts about the refugee crisis today. Charts should include information about the crisis today to compare with the experience of the refugees from the Holocaust.
- What are the similarities between the two time periods?
- What are the differences?
- How does identity help to explain the issues that refugees face today?
View this video clip from Samantha Power, UN Ambassador (2013 - 2017), Small Things We Can Do for Refugees: The Importance of Humanizing Refugees.
Design an exhibit for your school about the refugee crisis today.
- Find a photograph and three documents about a refugee today.
- Where are they from?
- Why did they leave their home?
- What aspect of their identity helps us to humanize them?
- If you were introducing them to your friends, what would you say about them?
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