Alfons Heck recalls how he became a high-ranking member of the Hitler Youth. He talks about the importance of peer pressure and propaganda to Hitler's ability to recruit eight million German children to participate in the "war effort."
Teachers at Animo Jackie Robinson Charter High School use our Holocaust and Human Behavior resource and journey of discovery about oneself and others ("Scope and Sequence") to help students think critically about history and make informed choices.
Kwame Anthony Appiah reflects on factors that affect our individual moral decision making.
Claude Steele describes the idea and effects of stereotype threat in our daily lives.
Author Wes Moore reflects on the very thin line that separates “us” from the “other.”
Leon Bass describes his encounters with racism when he joined for the U.S. Army in 1943.
This documentary uses diary entries of youth who lived during the Holocaust and powerful images to teach a new generation about the pain of the past and hope for the future.
Samuel Bak explains his life growing up in Vilna, and explores his art as it relates to Facing History
Former Jewish partisan Aron Bell describes how weapons were essential to the life of a partisan.
Professor Jonathan Petropoulos discusses the moral challenges faced by three cultural figures living in Nazi Germany, writer Gottfried Benn and artists Emil Nolde and Max Beckmann.
Holocaust survivor Barbara Turkeltaub was a very young girl in Vilna when her parents put her in a convent with Catholic nuns.
Bernard Storch describes his experience entering and liberating Majdanek extermination camp.