Pigeon teacher’s guide : a companion to the VHEC docent-led classroom workshop, Pigeon

"This teacher's guide is a companion to the classroom-based workshop, Pigeon , facilitated by docents of the Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre (VHEC)... The 60-minute or 45-minute long workshop (duration depending on the usual class length) consists of a short film that focuses on rescue and decision making during the Holocaust in France, followed by an interactive exploration of those themes led by the docent... The lessons in this guide introduce students to the [ Pigeon ] film's broader historical context, and facilitate their ongoing engagement with the topics and themes raised in the docent-led classroom workshop. The guide includes pre and post-workshop activities, discussion questions, student study documents, links to primary sources, including a survivor testimony, a historical document from the VHEC collection, as well as a glossary and recommended sources. The pre-workshop activities introduce students to a testimony of a Holocaust survivor from France and her exposure to antisemitism and propaganda. The post-workshop activities offer students the opportunity to engage further with the topic of rescue during the Holocaust and to learn about a specific case of rescue by engaging with a primary source document from the VHEC collection." —Introduction, page 2