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Holocaust Resources

Resources 13
Last Modified December 11, 2023
Description Explore resources on teaching Holocaust history and how this history shapes what it means to be Jewish today.
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The Holocaust and Jewish Communities in Wartime North Africa

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Explore the impact of the Holocaust and World War II on Jewish communities in North Africa in this 3-lesson mini-unit.
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Intersecting Histories: Wartime North Africa and the Holocaust

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Join UCLA professors Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Aomar Boum, as they discuss the experiences of North African Jews before World War II as well as the history of the Holocaust and North Africa.
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Adapting Podcast: Holocaust Education as Living Memory

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Rabbi Yehudah Potok, Director of Jewish Education at Facing History and Ourselves shares how he understands the phrase "Never Again" and the importance of perpetuating living memories of Jewish history in Holocaust Education.
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If Not Me

Follow three people who credit their upstander behavior to the impact of one survivor’s story. The experience of Dr. Anna Ornstein, Hungarian survivor of Auschwitz, child psychiatrist, and author, has impacted choices of students since the 1970s.

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Teaching Night

This guide interweaves a literary analysis of Elie Wiesel’s powerful and poignant memoir with an exploration of the relevant historical context surrounding his experience during the Holocaust.

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Children of Willesden Lane

This collection includes resources to accompany the text The Children of Willesden Lane, the powerful true story of Lisa Jura, who fled Nazi-occupied Vienna on the Kindertransport as a child.

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The Jews of Poland

This resource draws on autobiographies, diaries, official documents, and literary works to help students explore how Jews and non-Jews living in Poland throughout history have responded to questions about identity.

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Illuminations: The Art of Samuel Bak

This guide provides those viewing paintings by Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak with a framework for analyzing the art's profound symbolism about memory, justice, and identity.

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Teaching Who Will Write Our History

Invite students to reflect on why it matters who tells our stories as they view a documentary film about the profound courage and resistance of the Oyneg Shabes in the Warsaw ghetto.

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Americans and the Holocaust: The Refugee Crisis

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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A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism

This book traces antisemitism's evolution over the centuries and examines how the ancient hatred continues to shape attitudes and beliefs in the world today.

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Holocaust and Human Behavior

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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Teaching the Holocaust and Facing Antisemitism

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Dan and Yehudah discuss Facing History's unique approach to curriculum and pedagogy, the role of social media in spreading hate like antisemitism, and why, perhaps, we've done too good a job teaching the Holocaust.