History is often taught through facts and dates, making it difficult to understand the personal experiences and emotions behind historical events. This lesson addresses this by using Teofila Silberring’s testimony to explore how individual memories, family experiences, trauma, and historical places shape our understanding of the past.
How can personal stories and memories help us understand history, and how do emotions, trauma, family experiences, and places influence the way the past is remembered?
The mission of this project is to encourage students to connect personal testimony with emotions, places, and family memories while developing empathy and intercultural understanding. To cultivate deep empathy and advanced historical inquiry. By transforming students from passive video consumers into active historical interviewers, they learn to analyze not just what a survivor says, but what is left unsaid, and why.
