Student Emily T.B. reads a letter she wrote to Holocaust survivor and poet Sonia Weitz.
Jamarr J. explains how propaganda and education became the same thing in Nazi Germany.
Photo archivist Judith Cohen describes how a scrapbook and memory book from Holocaust survivor Michael Gruenbaum provide a rare view into life in the Theresienstadt camp-ghetto.
Photo archivist Judith Cohen describes how a scrapbook and memory book from Holocaust survivor Michael Gruenbaum provide a rare view into life in the Theresienstadt camp-ghetto.
Steven Becton uses George Orwell’s 1984 to engage students with themes of conformity and obedience.
Teacher Chris Mazzino facilitates an open-forum discussion on “The Children of Willesden Lane.”
As part of the project "War is Only Half the Story," Sara Terry describes her series on Bosnia.
The Bielski brothers led a group of partisans responsible for saving more than 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust.
Dr. Victoria Barnett speaks about German Protestant churches during the rise of the Nazis.
This footage is among the most famous scenes from the liberation of Auschwitz—a group of surviving children now under the care of nurses.
Once Red Army units liberated Majdanek in July 1944, they came upon the pits filled with thousands of victims. Civilians from the nearby town of Lublin were brought into the camp to view the gruesome evidence of mass murder.
Staff from Facing History and Ourselves discuss the history and ramifications of the blood libel.