As we prepare to welcome 2025, SPI is excited to share a glimpse of what’s to come.
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Stephan Lewy was 13 years old, living in a Jewish orphanage in Berlin on “The Night of Broken Glass,” November 9, 1938.
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WWII Marine Corps veteran John Robinson shares his memories of the Battle of Iwo Jima.
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Genocide Awareness Month is a time to educate and reflect on the darkest chapters of human history.
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For Black History Month 2024, SPI shares a project that asks students to create their own picture book, using legendary artist, writer, poet, anthologist, storyteller, and folklorist Ashley Bryan’s Freedom Over Me as a template.
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Max Ebel was born in Speyer, Germany in 1919. When Max refused to join the Hitler Youth life became very dangerous for him. This led Max to immigrate to the United States in 1937. Four years later his life changed drastically.
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Story Preservation Initiative was invited by the POLIN Museum in Warsaw, Poland, to join with others around the world to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. The Uprising took place between the dates of April 19, 1943, and May 16, 1943.
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Putting a twist on Women’s History Month, SPI this year challenges students to create an oral history of a woman who they admire.
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Known is as the “census taker of the sky,” Annie was one of a team of brilliant women employed by the Harvard Observatory to map the night sky. Their contribution to our understanding of the universe and their laying out of fundamental assumptions of astronomy still hold today.
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98-year-old WWII Marine Corps veteran John Robinson shares his personal remembrances of the Battle of Iwo Jima and the post-war occupation of Japan with SPI, grades 7-12.
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SPI went to Little Cranberry Island, Maine to record the personal narrative of the legendary artist, writer, poet, anthologist, storyteller, and scholar of African and African-American folklore, Ashley Bryan.
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SPI’s Learning Lab shares the 1st-person narratives of Holocaust survivors with students and educators. From Kindertransport to “Hidden Children” and the July 1944 plot to assassinate Hitler, their stories are rich in detail and honor the “unsung heroes” who risked their lives to save them.
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