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Introducing Our US History Curriculum Collection
Draw from this flexible curriculum collection as you plan any middle or high school US history course. Featuring units, C3-style inquiries, and case studies, the collection will help you explore themes of democracy and freedom with your students throughout the year.
Explore the Partisans
Find interview transcripts, historical overviews, and primary source documents about a particular Jewish partisan or country.
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.
Materials for Teaching Holocaust and Human Behavior
Explore the collection of media referenced in our unit Teaching Holocaust and Human Behavior, available both online and in print.
Samuel Bak’s Illuminations Audio Tour
This audio tour features commentary by Holocaust scholar Lawrence Langer on the 28 paintings in Holocaust survivor Samuel Bak’s Illuminations collection.
The French Bishops' Protest Against the Nazi Occupation in France and the Vel' d'Hiv Police Roundup
Scholar Aliza Luft discusses how French bishops reacted to the growing hostility towards Jews in occupied France during World War II.
Witness to a Massacre
Barbara Turkeltaub, a Jewish girl who was hidden by Catholic nuns during the war, describes witnessing a Nazi massacre.
American Experience: America and the Holocaust
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This episode of The American Experience examines the role of the United States in the Holocaust, exploring such issues as American antisemitism and the deliberate suppression of information that European Jews were slated for genocide.
Antisemitism after Liberation
Howard Cwick, an American soldier during World War II, recalls a confrontation with a US Army sergeant over antisemitic slurs directed toward a recently liberated concentration camp survivor.
An Introduction to Facing History's Scope and Sequence
Learn about this key component of our pedagogy which describes the journey of discovery about oneself and others.
A Plea for Humanity: The Einsatzgruppen on Trial
Benjamin Ferencz, International Law Scholar and Former Nuremberg Prosecutor, shares his experience as Chief Prosecutor at the trial of the Einsatzgruppen commanders.
A Day in Warsaw
This short documentary captures the spirit of Jewish life in Warsaw, Poland, before World War II.