THIN EDGE OF THE WEDGE Free Project for Schools

Teaching the universal lessons of the Holocaust and the consequences of bigotry and hate.

These are free resources for schools for the THIN EDGE OF THE WEDGE project. The THIN EDGE OF THE WEDGE project is designed to encourage empowering responses and not fearful responses in the face of anti-Semitism and racism.

(Note that the entire one-act play script is recommended for school presentation programs while the trailer script or other script excerpts are recommended for classroom presentation and discussion.)

Short monologue from play performed in both English and German by bilingual actress/director Deena Unverzagt (based in Hamburg, Germany).

• • Free copy of the 11-actor script of the play THIN EDGE OF THE WEDGE — firsthand accounts of Holocaust survivors and saviors: pzmiller@gmail.com

 

• • Characters in THIN EDGE OF THE WEDGE play

 

• • Ideas for schools to utilize play

 

• • Script of play excerpts

 

• • Related school arts projects

 

• • Discussion questions

 

• • Selected Holocaust nonfiction reading list for schools

 

• • Read how Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara saved Jews during WWII

 

• • Read a firsthand account by a Jewish college student (and granddaughter of a Holocaust survivor) of how she educated the perpetrator who stole the mezuzah off her doorpost.

 

• • Video Holocaust testimonies

 

• • Arolsen Archives’ online information on 10 million victims of the Nazis

 

• • A survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto shares the lessons of the past in the hope that history does not repeat itself.

 

• • Standing up to anti-Semitism and hate TODAY

 

• • Anti-Semitism roleplay activities

 

• School visit: Holocaust survivor Susanne Reyto shares with students her family’s experiences in Hungary during the Holocaust and afterwards under Communism. Email Susanne at susanne@pursuitoffreedom.com

 

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