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Estudios de nativos americanos • Sociología • Historia de EE. UU. • Estudios americanos • Sociología del deporte • Estudios medioambientales
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¿Qué significa ser un REVOLUCIONARIO AMERICANO hoy? Grace Lee Boggs, una mujer chino-estadounidense de Detroit, que murió en octubre de 2015 a los 100 años, tiene una visión sorprendente de la revolución. Escritora, activista y filósofa arraigada durante más de 70 años en el movimiento afroamericano, dedicó su vida a una revolución en evolución que abarcaba las contradicciones del pasado de Estados Unidos y su futuro potencialmente radical. Este documental ganador del Premio Peabody nos sumerge en la práctica de toda la vida de Boggs de encender el diálogo y la acción comunitarios, trabajo que atraviesa los principales movimientos sociales estadounidenses del siglo pasado: desde los derechos laborales hasta los derechos civiles, pasando por el Black Power, el feminismo, el asiático-americano y el medio ambiente. movimientos de justicia y más allá.
Angela Davis, Bill Moyers, Bill Ayers, Ruby Dee y Ossie Davis, Danny Glover, el marido de Boggs, James Boggs, y una gran cantidad de camaradas de Detroit de tres generaciones ayudan a dar forma a esta historia exclusivamente estadounidense. Mientras lucha con un Detroit en transición, las contradicciones de la violencia y la no violencia, Malcolm X y Martin Luther King Jr., las rebeliones de 1967 y nociones no lineales del tiempo y la historia, Boggs emerge con un enfoque que es radical en su simplicidad y claridad: la revolución no es un acto de agresión o simplemente una protesta. La revolución, dice Boggs, tiene que ver con algo más profundo dentro de la experiencia humana: la capacidad de transformarse uno mismo para transformar el mundo. Con más de diez años de realización, esta película interdisciplinaria tiene un gran atractivo.
American Jewish University | Rabbi Michael Berenbaum - Holocaust educator, Historian, Museum Curator, Rabbi and Author, Founding Curator of the USHMM, Professor of Jewish Studies and the Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute
"Karen A. Frenkel has unlocked her family treasures, once brought home in plastic bags, to tell the story of her parents’ and grandparents’ ordeals during the Holocaust. Her research was prodigious, her work indefatigable, and her courage admirable. As we follow their stories, the history of the Shoah unfolds, the world before, the diverse ways in which these Jews faced their fate and made life and death choices––even choiceless choices––how they dealt with the legacy of their struggle––some in silence, and some in words. As the child of survivors, Frenkel uncovers her past but the story she tells is not just personal for we begin to feel that her family could be ours. Her exploration of the past is engaging. Family Treasures is truly a treasure.”
New Jersey Education Association NJEA | Dr. Kim Pinkney, Associate Director - Consortium Coordinator PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND INSTRUCTIONAL ISSUES
“The NJEA Consortium is steadfast in its commitment to supporting educators in fostering a socially conscious and just society. It ensures this vital work with resources and professional development needed to empower students to become empathetic, engaged global citizens. The five-part docuseries, Family Treasures Lost and Found, is a perfect example of a tool that can be used in high school and junior high school educational settings to bring studies of the Holocaust to life."
Jewish Press Review
“Family Treasures Lost and Found is a visually stunning film, largely because producer Karen A. Frenkel inherited a formidable family archive of art and photos from her mother’s refugee grandparents, who escaped Berlin in 1941."
New York University | Avinoam J. Patt, Ph.D. - Maurice and Corinne Greenberg Professor of Holocaust Studies, Ingeborg H. and Ira Leon Rennert Director, NYU Center for the Study of Antisemitism
"Family Treasures Lost and Found can serve as an excellent resource for Holocaust educators, modeling key skills such as critical inquiry, archival research, and the analysis of survivor testimony essential for effective instruction. Students and teachers will be introduced to fascinating aspects of Holocaust history as they follow Karen Frenkel's quest to learn her family history and by extension the broader history of Jewish life in Europe before, during, and after World War II. The discussion guide and appendix offer helpful resources designed to provide educators with the necessary tools to effectively teach this complex history."
FESTIVALS
Miami Jewish Film Festival
SCREENINGS
Dorot screening followed by a Q&A with Karen
June 12, 2025, 3:30 – 6 pm, NYC.
“Dorot” means “generations” in Hebrew, and is a nonprofit organization addressing the challenges of an aging population.
Brevard Jewish Center, Ken Wallston Lecture
June 1, 2025, 4:30 pm, Brevard, NC.
Congregation Beth Israel
May 18, 2025, 7:30 pm, Carmel, CA.
Sousa Mendes Foundation virtual screening & Zoom Q&A
May 11, 2025, 4 pm (Mother's Day)
Congregation Beth Elohim
April 23, 2025, 6:30 pm, Park Slope, NY.
Yom HaShoah screening and book signing
Manhattan University
October 7, 2025, 7 pm
St. Elizabeth University
November 11, 2025, 7pm
Q&A moderated by Richard Quinlan, Professor of History
Kean University
November 12, 2025, 4:30 pm
Holocaust Museum Houston
November 21, 2025, 6:30 pm
Holocaust Museum Los Angeles
November 24, 2025, 2 pm
JCC of Greater Baltimore
December 18, 2024, 11 am
International Association of Jewish Genealogy Societies (IAJGS) Annual Conference
August 22, 2024
Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre, Durban Holocaust Centre, Cape Town Holocaust and Genocide Centre
September 19, 2024, all in South Africa.
Review of South African event
New York University
March 7, 2024, New York, NY.
Introduction by NYU President, Linda Mills, Panel and Q&A with Karen A. Frenkel, Marcia Rock, Avinoam Patt, Director of NYU Center for the Study of Antisemitism, and Rabbi Yehuda Sarna, Executive Director of the Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life.
Center for Jewish History (NY Premiere)
NYC Public premiere at the Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY
LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS
Teaching the Holocaust through Film
April 21, 2025, 4:30 - 6:00 pm
A three-panel webinar event co-sponsored by the Museum of Jewish Heritage and the NYU Center for the Study of Antisemitism
CTLE credit
New Jersey Education Association, Consortium Transform Conference
April 5, 2025, Princeton, NJ.
Kean University Seminar for Holocaust educators
November 12, 2024
To view the full discussion guide, please acquire a screening license through GOOD DOCS.
The 75-minute feature is not broken into parts. Also, some information in the 83-minute, Five-part Series was omitted in the feature in the interest of time. The feature does not include information in Part 5, for example, in which Karen builds a family tree and meets a relative from the long-lost California branch.
The Five-part Series is for high school students and the 75-minute feature is for college and university students
Teaching the Holocaust with Family Treasures Lost and Found
Want to host a seminar with Director Marcia Rock and Producer Karen A. Frenkel? Email education@gooddocs.net for inquiries.
An innovative documentary series about investigating the plight of one Jewish family helps teachers and students challenge assumptions and provoke conversations about the Holocaust.
Incorporating documentaries into the curriculum can make teaching the Holocaust real and relevant because students today appreciate visualizations of issues and concepts. The challenge for teachers is to choose a non-fiction film that engages students while focusing on the critical themes of antisemitism, racism, identity, fascism, courage, resistance, cruelty and genocide. In both the 75-minute feature and the Five-Part Series of Family Treasures Lost and Found, one family’s story incorporates all these elements as journalist Karen A. Frenkel, a daughter of Holocaust survivors, fills gaps in her parents’ and one grandparent’s stories of survival. The films interweave her research with her relatives’ stories underscored by historical context, photos, archival footage, survivor testimony and the importance of memory. These elements and current perspectives on the Holocaust and the rise of authoritarian regimes are also relevant for discussions with students. The documentaries also describe violent antisemitism as well as highlight acts of altruism and resilience. However, we are sensitive to the pornography of violence and discuss with teachers how to manage that in the classroom.
Now that very few survivors are left, their children and grandchildren are recounting their stories and making them relevant. In Family Treasures, unique family photos and portraits show that Jews caught in the maelstrom led full lives before the Nazi onslaught. By revealing the plights of individuals, we hope students will feel empathy for them and the displaced today.
Teacher Training:
Director Marcia Rock and Producer Karen A. Frenkel offer a training seminar that walks teachers through their Discussion Guide, that supports both versions of the film. We model how to best implement concepts in the Guide and we also explain how to incorporate the activities into the classroom. We look forward to brainstorming with teachers to meet their specific needs.
The Series is divided into five segments that model family history research:
● Part 1. Oral History
● Part 2. Google Anything
● Part 3. Sleuthing Archives
● Part 4. Value of Visiting
● Part 5. Family Tree
Most segments are 15 minutes or less, except Value of Visiting, which is 30, and can be viewed together in class over two days, viewing Parts 1, 2, and 3 in one class and viewing 4 and 5 in the next class, or spread over five days.
Part 1. Oral History
This section introduces survivor testimony as well as the concept of identity and how the Nazis began stripping Jews of their identities, from professional restrictions to forbidding them to sit on park benches.
This section introduces Karen’s mother, who was 14 when her family fled Kraków, a similar age to many of the high school students today who will watch Family Treasures. The film offers a window into “normal” life in the pre-war urban Jewish culture of Poland and then contrasts it with the intense violence that accompanied the Nazi invasion.
One goal of this section is to have students value oral histories. An interesting activity is to have students interview an immigrant to understand the importance of gathering these memories.
Part 2. Google Anything
This section focuses on using the internet for archival research and on key ways to find information. Unlike the anthropology that students study today, we describe early anthropology that used and distorted scientific data to endorse racial superiority. An example in the film is measuring heads to rationalize racism. We also discuss the quota system U.S. colleges and universities used to limit the number of Jews admitted to Ivy League and other universities until the 1960s.
Part 3. Sleuthing Archives
We review some key research techniques that led Karen to realize her father was in the port of Havana at the same time as the famous ship, St. Louis. Ports in every country, including the United States, turned away the ocean liner, which was filled with Jewish passengers fleeing Nazi Germany. Karen’s father was on the French ship Flandre, whose Jewish passengers were also forbidden to disembark everywhere. On the dock of the next port (in Mexico), someone fell ill. Dr. Frenkel saved the person’s life and was allowed to work for free in a hospital while awaiting a U.S. visa.
To underscore this episode’s relevance, our teacher training seminar will review the history of immigration policy in the U.S. then and now.
Part 4. Value of Visiting
We think it is important for students to learn how to observe people and places in-person. Karen visited the cities where her parents lived. Students can describe a place they have read about and have then visited, and discuss how the two experiences differ.
This section also illustrates the Nazi strategy of slowly closing the vice around Jews in cities by forcing them into crowded ghettos and then deporting them. Karen’s mother escaped the Tarnów ghetto, for example, and was sheltered by locals who could have been shot for doing so. An important discussion could focus on why a person would risk their own life to help a stranger.
“…To be indifferent to that suffering is what makes the human being inhuman.
Indifference, after all, is more dangerous than anger and hatred.”
–Elie Wiesel, Holocaust Survivor
Value of Visiting is a difficult segment because it shows violence and examines great personal loss. Karen’s teenage mother survived, but her parents were murdered, a trauma she never really recovered from. The segment also reveals that Karen’s father’s mother committed suicide rather than be arrested by the Gestapo and deported to a concentration camp. We will discuss with teachers some difficult but challenging questions to pose to students about various forms of resistance.
Part 5. Family History
In the Five-part Series only, the last segment includes Karen building a family tree for each side of her family, pulling all the stories together. Part 5 also dives deeper into family history archival research and what documents reveal about the people behind the names. Karen also discovers relatives in California and meets one via zoom. It is always interesting for students to see a circle closed.
We look forward to discussing with teachers the best way to handle some profound questions raised in the film after students have seen it in its entirety, such as: How does seeing this history through one family’s story help to understand the Holocaust? And more broadly, is there a change in students' understanding of identity, immigration, antisemitism, intolerance and empathy.
Conclusion
The training session usually takes 90 minutes so that we can show clips from the film to illustrate the points we make.
It will interest a combination of educators in various subjects, from social studies and history to humanities and the Holocaust, in particular. Ideally, we could train a fairly large group from a district, union, or other group to make our fee reasonable. Our training session would also be ideal for teacher conferences and conventions.