Recommended Resources for Holocaust and Human Behavior
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- History
Grade
6–12Language
English — USPublished
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About This Collection
This collection is designed to support your exploration of Holocaust and Human Behavior. It features over 100 classroom-ready resources, including video documentaries and eyewitness testimony. Use these resources to connect your study of the Holocaust to related histories and ideas.
This collection contains all of the resources recommended in Holocaust and Human Behavior, organized by chapter.
- 86 videos
- 13 lessons
- 1 units
- 1 collections
- 5 books
Inside This Collection
Chapter 1: The Individual and Society
The Complexity of Identity
The Bear That Wasn't
A Class Divided
How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do
Jonathan Lykes Performs "Perception"
How Social Environments Shape Behavior
Day of Learning 2013 - Binna Kandola: Diffusing Bias
Little Things Are Big: Jesús Colón
Chapter 2: We and They
Understanding Universe of Obligation
Race and Membership in American History: The Eugenics Movement
Creating "We and They": Kwame Anthony Appiah
Race: The Power of an Illusion (The Story We Tell)
Genetics, Eugenics, and Ethics
The Ancient Roots of Anti-Judaism
When Does "Us" Turn against "Them”?: Kwame Anthony Appiah
Antisemitism from the Enlightenment to World War I
Chapter 3: World War: Choices and Consequences
Analyzing the Effects of World War I
Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians
Combat and the Colonies: the Role of Race in World War I
Propaganda during World War I: An Appeal to You!
Introducing the Armenian Genocide
The American Response to the Armenian Genocide
Chapter 4: The Weimar Republic: The Fragility of Democracy
The Weimar Republic: The Fragility of Democracy
Choices in Weimar Republic Elections
Facing History Scholar Reflections: The Weimar Republic
Hitler's Rise to Power: 1918-1933
Chapter 5: The National Socialist Revolution
Examining Hitler's First Radio Address
Facing History Scholar Reflections: The Nazi Rise to Power
From Democracy to Dictatorship
Hitler's Rise to Power: 1933-1934
Hitler's First Victims
Friendship and Betrayal
The Confessing Church: Early German Protestant Responses to National Socialism - Victoria Barnett
Awakening Conscience: The Pastor Martin Niemoller Story - Victoria Barnett
Acting on Faith: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Protest Against National Socialism - Victoria Barnett
Night of the Long Knives: Jonathan Petropoulos
Chapter 6: Conformity and Consent in the National Community
Analyzing Nazi Propaganda
Art as Propaganda: The Nazi Degenerate Art Exhibit
Complicity and Cultural Figures in the Third Reich: Navigating the Grey Zone
Triumph of the Will (Triumph des Willens)
Changes at School under the Nazis
Chapter 7: Open Aggression and World Responses
Understanding Kristallnacht
"Kristallnacht": The November 1938 Pogroms
Facing History Scholar Reflections: Kristallnacht
Preparing for the Kindertransport
Witnessing Antisemitic Violence
Turned Away on the M.S. St. Louis
A Sinister Alliance: Soviet-German Relations 1939–1941
Chapter 8: A War For Race and Space
Confronting the Suffering Caused by the Nazis
We Call Ourselves "Roma"
Tackling Discrimination against Roma in Schools
Bishop von Galen and the War against the Disabled
Hitler's Ideology: Race, Land, and Conquest
Introduction to the Jewish Partisans
Questions of Complicity: France and the Nazi Occupation
The Nazis in Vilna
A Sinister Alliance: Soviet-German Relations 1939–1941
Chapter 9: The Holocaust
Responding to the Stories of Holocaust Survivors
Step By Step: Phases of the Holocaust
Facing History Scholar Reflections: The Holocaust
Surviving a Massacre
Designing Destruction: The Holocaust in the German-Occupied Former Soviet Territory
Choosing Cruelty: The Psychology of Perpetrators
The Psychology of Genocidal Behavior
Obedience: The Milgram Experiment
War of Annihilation: Targeting the Jews of Europe
Dehumanizing the Enemy
Finding Safety in Italy
Joining the Resistance
Introduction to the Jewish Partisans
Life or Death in the Netherlands
Weapons of the Spirit
Warning the World
Eyewitness to Buchenwald
The Red Army Enters Majdanek
Chapter 10: Judgment and Justice
Exploring Justice after the Holocaust
The Nanjing Atrocities: Crimes of War
Nuremberg Remembered
Nuremberg and Tokyo: Foundations of International Law
Monsters and Men: The Nazis at Nuremberg
A Plea for Humanity: The Einsatzgruppen on Trial
The Nanjing Atrocities: Crimes of War
Chapter 11: Legacy and Memory
Analyzing and Creating Memorials
Illuminations: The Art of Samuel Bak
Survivors and Witnesses: Video Testimony
Totally Unofficial: Raphael Lemkin and the Genocide Convention
Reconciling Identities after the War
Friendship before, during, and after the War
Caring for Survivors
Antisemitism after Liberation
Conventional Revolution: Raphael Lemkin and the Crime Without a Name
Raphael Lemkin: Watcher of the Sky (Introduction)
Raphael Lemkin: Watcher of the Sky (Genocide Convention)
Luis Moreno Ocampo: Watcher of the Sky
Long Night's Journey into Day: South African's Search for Truth and Reconciliation
Taner Akçam: Why is the Armenian Genocide Important?
Introducing the Armenian Genocide
Benjamin Ferencz: Watcher of the Sky
Chapter 12: Choosing To Participate
Strategies for Making a Difference
Not in Our Town
Facing Ferguson: News Literacy in a Digital Age
Stitching Truth: Women's Protest Art in Pinochet's Chile
Not In Our Town: Billings, Montana
The Arpilleras of Chile (with Marjorie Agosin)
Tragedy Into Hope: Students Rally to Create a Memorial for Ell Persons
Congressman John Lewis on Bringing the Country Together (and His Aunt's Shotgun House)
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