Children of the Lodz ghetto - A Memorial Research Project

Based on a unique record of almost 14,000 children from the Holocaust, the collaborative history lab, Children of the Lodz Ghetto: A Memorial Research Project, invites learners to take an active role in our understanding of the past. As "citizen historians," participants investigate children from the Lodz ghetto via an on-line research "lab" that structures the search, provides access to primary and secondary historical sources, and allows direct feedback from experts and peers.

This project creates an authentic research and learning environment that asks learners to struggle together with the challenge of uncovering what is still unknown—what happened to these children. Yet, the project also ties individual research to the larger questions of how the Holocaust occurred. Working within this social research environment, participants improve critical thinking skills and gain a more complex understanding of historical events.

Learn more and join the project at http://online.ushmm.org/lodzchildren.

Historical Photo credits:
1. Ghetto school children holding small pails and cups wait in line outside the ghetto soup kitchen. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Robert Abrams.
2. A child who has been selected for deportation, bids farewell to his family through the wire fence of the central prison, during the "Gehsperre" action in the Lodz ghetto. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Moshe Zilbar.
3. Jewish youth cut blocks of wood in the furniture workshop in the Lodz ghetto. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Robert Abrams.
4. Teenage boys in tattered clothes haul a large cart laden with loaves of bread in the Lodz ghetto. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Arie Ben Menachem.
5. A group of pre-school children lined up with sacks in the Lodz ghetto. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Muzeum Sztuki w Lodzi.
6. Portrait of Chaim Kozienicki. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Chaim Kozienicki.

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