Teach Jewish History K–5 Lesson
Handout A

Six Faces

One People, Many Faces · Grades K–2

How to use these photos

  1. Cut on the dashed lines.
  2. Fold each place name back on the dotted line.
  3. Show one at a time. Ask: Where are they?
✂ Cut on the dashed lines
Seven young children in costume standing in a row on the grass at a Jewish kindergarten in Vienna, 1930
Jewish children at kindergarten in Vienna, Austria, 1930. Courtesy of ANU, Museum of the Jewish People, Tel Aviv.
A large group of children in party clothes standing on a lawn in Baghdad, 1959
Jewish children at a birthday party in Baghdad, Iraq, 1959. Photograph courtesy of Maurice Shohet, Iraqi Jewish Archive.
A class of girls standing together in front of a chalkboard at a school in Morocco
Jewish girls at their school in Morocco. Alliance Israélite Universelle.
A family with children walking across the desert carrying their belongings, Yemen, 1949
A Jewish family from Yemen on the road to Aden, 1949. Government Press Office, Israel. Public domain.
Ethiopian Jews stepping off a military transport plane in Israel, 1991
Jewish people from Ethiopia arriving in Israel, 1991. Photo: Tsvika Israeli, Government Press Office (Israel), CC BY-SA 3.0.
A young child in a pink hat placing a note between the stones of the Western Wall in Jerusalem
A child at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, Israel. Courtesy of Teach Jewish History.