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Explore the motives, pressures, and fears that shaped Americans’ responses to Nazism and the humanitarian refugee crisis it provoked during the 1930s and 1940s.

A crowd of American men and women hold signs protesting Nazi Germany's actions.

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Explore the digital version of our core resource on the Holocaust. Find classroom-ready readings, primary sources, and short documentary films that support a study of the Holocaust through the lens of human behavior.

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Find interview transcripts, historical overviews, and primary source documents about a particular Jewish partisan or country.

Russian partisans, one of them photographer Faye Schulman, gathering together in the forest, Naliboki Forest, Belarus, December 1944. The Molotava Brigade was a partisan group made up mostly of escaped Soviet Army POWs. The woman pictured is Faye Schulman, a Jewish woman who fled into the Naliboki forest with her camera equipment and joined the Molotova Brigade. For two years in the forest she photographed the partisan's activities, worked as medical aid and participated in the partisans raid's.

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Explore the stories of Jewish partisans that stood against Nazi oppression, genocide, and antisemitism during World War II.

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Explore resources that meet the California History–Social Science Framework standards.

Four students sit in a circle in conversation. The student in the center speaks with their hands raised.

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Explore resources that meet the Massachusetts History and Social Science Framework.

Students working in groups in a classroom

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Lead students through a study of the Nanjing atrocities, beginning with an examination of imperialism in East Asia and ending with reflection on justice in the aftermath of mass violence.

A flower is left on a wall engraved with victims names at the Memorial Hall of the Victims in the Nanjing Massacre.

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Designed for California 10th grade world history courses, this unit guides students through a study of the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide that focuses on choices and human behavior.

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Engage students in personal accounts from survivors with this collection of video testimony, survivor profiles, and a lesson plan.

Holocaust Survivor Barbara Fischman shares her testimony.

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This collection features powerful accounts of the Holocaust, told by survivors, rescuers, and witnesses, selected from USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive.

Nate Leipciger shares testimony with students.

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Lead your students through a detailed and challenging study of the Holocaust that asks what this history can teach us about the power and impact of choices.

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Explore this collection of lesson plans and student materials that place the Nanjing Atrocities within the larger context of World War II in East Asia.

Two brothers stand outside of the remains of their house and shop in the southern section of Nanjing, which was badly damaged during the fighting.

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Americans and the Holocaust: The Refugee Crisis

Holocaust and Human Behavior

Explore the Partisans

Resistance during the Holocaust: An Exploration of the Jewish Partisans

Resources for Civic Education in California

Resources for Civic Education in Massachusetts

Teaching the Nanjing Atrocities

Teaching the Holocaust and Armenian Genocide: For California Educators

Teaching with Testimony

Survivors and Witnesses: Video Testimony

Teaching Holocaust and Human Behaviour (UK)

The Nanjing Atrocities