Education & Community Engagement
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Our lead educational partner is Facing History and Ourselves, one of the world’s most respected educational engagement organizations. FHAO is dedicated to raising students’ awareness of injustice and intolerance. The organization has created primary, middle and high school educational materials for the film with an online curriculum that brings the story alive to students as they engage with materials from the Sharps and the people they rescued.
Facing History Curriculum: Defying the Nazis "Text to Text: Comparing Jewish Refugees of the 1960s with Syrian Refugess Today" by Facing History Senior Associate was published on the NYTimes Learning Network!
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Children's Emigration Project | Defying the Nazis: The Sharps'
This lesson delves into Martha Sharp’s project to bring refugee children from wartime France to the United States in 1940, and it invites students to consider how one person can make a difference in the lives of many. The lesson combines analysis of historical documents with emotional engagement, perspective taking, and personal reflection. It begins with a moving letter from Martha to her eight-year-old son, explaining why she chose to stay in France rather than returning home to be with her own children. |
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A HYMN FOR THE BRAVE : the Sharps and Humanitarian Work in World War II is an exhibition featuring professional documents and personal records from the Martha and Waitstill Sharp Collection and the Robert Cloutman and Elisabeth Anthony Dexter papers, on view in Brown University’s John Hay Library from September 19 – December 23, 2016. |
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As we witness ideological divide and xenophobic, inflammatory rhetoric in the news, the need for collaborative work between groups from different faith traditions to heal ailing society is growing stronger every day. However, learning how to work peacefully together toward action is often hard and complicated. The Fahs Collaborative at Meadville Lombard Theological School (Unitarian Universalist) has developed a curriculum, We Who Defy Hate: An Interfaith Preparation for Social Justice Action, to help communities engage and bring societal change. It is created in the context of the film, Defying the Nazis. Today, Unitarian Universalists carry on their legacy of interfaith social justice action. For more information, please contact The Fahs Collaborative by emailing [email protected] |
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How are you carrying on the Sharps' legacy by defying hatred and discrimination today? Islamophobia and the Syrian refugee crisis are modern day parallels to the bigotry the Sharps fought against. Download tools and materials to help plan events and projects, and add your action to the map below.
Join the #WeDefy email list to get regular updates through the film's release. And for tools, tips and resources that go beyond the film screenings: Congregational Action Guide & Building Bridges: Refugee Support and Advocay Toolkit (UUSC).
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The Olga Lengyel Institute (TOLI) is a New York-based public charitable institution that provides professional development to inspire and sustain educators teaching about the Holocaust, other genocides, and human rights across the United States and overseas. TOLI will host a screening on Sunday, September 11, 2016 at Cinema Village in lower Manhattan. TOLI has also publicized the film to the hundreds of educators within its network, many of whom have had the opportunity to view the film and meet with Artemis Joukowsky at summer seminars held in Manhattan at the Memorial Library.
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The Unitarian Universalist Service Committee, 1940-2015 http://ahtl.omeka.net/exhibits/show/uusc75/intro
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