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A Discussion with Elie Wiesel

30 minutes, color
Source: Facing History and Ourselves

Facing History and Ourselves students from Chicago area high schools share their thoughts and experiences as part of a panel discussion with Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel. There is a lesson created around this video, about Eve Shalen and the "in" group, on pages 29-31 of the Holocaust and Human Behavior resource book.

Related lesson:
Membership, Identity, and Traditional Jewish Texts

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
A Jew Among the Germans

60 minutes
Source: PBS Video

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
A Place to Save Your Life: The Shanghai Jews

22 minutes
Source: Filmakers Library

Seeking refuge from Nazi terror, some 17,000 Jews traveled to Shanghai, one of the few places that did not require a visa. Although a few Jews already lived in China, the Europeans found life there strange and difficult. Juxtaposing interviews with survivors with archival photographs, this film recounts the days when Jews lived in China under Japanese rule. Although the Japanese forced the exiles into a ghetto, they did not follow Hitler's extermination plan.

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Anne Frank in the World Exhibit Study Guide
The purpose of this guide is to prepare teachers and students to view the exhibition, Anne Frank in the World, 1929-1945, while incorporating perspectives and themes highlighted in the Facing History and Ourselves program.
 Publication February 23, 2008
As If It Were Yesterday

85 minutes, black & white
(French & English subtitles)
Source: Facets

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Au Revoir Les Enfants

103 minutes, color, subtitles
Source: amazon.com

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Auschwitz Death Camp: Oprah, Elie Wiesel

47 minutes
Source: Harpo Productions

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Bearing Witness

21 minutes
Source: Social Studies School Service

This documentary examines the role of American soldiers in the liberation of concentration camps at the end of World War II. The film combines historical footage and stills of the camps (including photographs taken by the witnesses themselves) with the powerful testimony of those Americans who were among the first to see the camps upon liberation. In addition, the veterans describe the enduring impact that witnessing the horrors of the Holocaust has had on their lives.

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Blessed is the Match

49 minutes

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
Challenge of Memory

23 minutes
Source: Facing History and Ourselves

This video accompanies Elie Wiesel's Night. The six selections in this montage parallel scenes described in Wiesel's memoir. The video excerpts not only provide a point of departure for discussing characters and incidents in the memoir, but they encourage students to think about universal themes of human behavior. Part of the Elements of Time series.

 Library Resource December 15, 2009
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