Life behind the Iron Curtain

A variety of lesson plans and activities available below. You can teach one lesson or teach a learning unit using our recommendations.

There are different lessons in Hebrew and in English, due to different material available (books, videos etc). The Hebrew lessons are available HERE

1948 (Golda Meir's visit in Moscow)

when Golda Meir arrived to Moscow in 1948, a groundbreaking unexpected event occurred...

Read & discuss: 13 year old against the KGB (short story)

For nearly two decades The Jewish Press publicized the cause of Marina Tiemkin of Moscow who had been kidnapped as a teenager by the KGB.

"Children's Tale" - slideshow on Jewish children in the USSR - American Soviet Jewry

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Hanukkah story discussions comparing to Soviet Jewry

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"Refuseniks: Heroes of History" Slideshow -- Archive of the American Soviet Jewry Movement

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Sharansky's matzah in Soviet Solitary confinement

The Haggadah's words were felt as KGB agents surrounded them. Later he would "celebrate" Passover in the Gulag.