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Letter to California Parents and Guardians

Share this letter with parents and guardians to provide them with an overview of the Teaching the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide unit.

Last Updated: January 12, 2023

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Language

English — US

Subject

History
Social Studies

The Holocaust
Genocide

Collection

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.

Unit

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

Collection

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.

Collection

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

Students working in groups in a classroom

Collection

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.

Collection

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.

Lesson

Students watch video testimony from a Holocaust survivor and engage in purposeful reflection about the survivor’s important story.

Classroom sitting in a circle discussing

Collection

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.

Unit

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.

Lesson

Students will come together as a community of learners to develop a contract that establishes a safe, but challenging environment in their classroom.

Lesson

Students consider the choices and reasoning of individual Germans who stayed quiet or spoke up during the first few years of Nazi rule.

German military recruits swear allegiance to Adolf Hitler.

Unit

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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