Revised in 2018, this one-week curriculum introduces students to the history of the Holocaust and the choices of individuals, groups, and nations that contributed to genocide.
Subject
- Civics/Citizenship Apply Civics/Citizenship filter
- European History Apply European History filter
- History Apply History filter
- Music, Art, and Culture Apply Music, Art, and Culture filter
- Psychology Apply Psychology filter
- Remove Social Studies filter Social Studies
- Remove US History filter US History
- World History Apply World History filter
Resource Type
- Remove Audio filter Audio
- Book Apply Book filter
- Books & Borrowing Apply Books & Borrowing filter
- Chapter Apply Chapter filter
- Remove Document filter Document
- Explainer Apply Explainer filter
- Featured Collection Apply Featured Collection filter
- Gallery Apply Gallery filter
- Grant Apply Grant filter
- Handout Apply Handout filter
- Lesson Apply Lesson filter
- Remove Message filter Message
- On-Demand Webinar Apply On-Demand Webinar filter
- Page Apply Page filter
- PowerPoint Apply PowerPoint filter
- Reading Apply Reading filter
- Remove Story filter Story
- Teaching Idea Apply Teaching Idea filter
- Teaching Strategy Apply Teaching Strategy filter
- Remove Timeline filter Timeline
- Unit Apply Unit filter
- Remove Unit Outline filter Unit Outline
- Video Apply Video filter
- Remove Visual Essay filter Visual Essay
Current Filters:
field_resource_type
Audio
Holocaust
World Responses
"Miss American"
Arch Oboler’s 1938 radio play, performed by Katharine Hepburn, pleaded with American audiences to offer more aid to Jewish refugee children. It aired as the country debated over the Wagner-Rogers Bill (Joint Resolution 64).
Audio
Holocaust
Choosing to Rescue
Sociologist Nechama Tec explores the story of one woman, Stefa Dworek - a Polish Christian - and her motivation to shelter a Jewish woman during the Holocaust. If caught rescuing a Jew during this time, Stefa would have faced imprisonment or worse. Yet about 2 percent of the Polish Christian population chose to hide Jews in a nation known for its long history of antisemitism.
Timeline
Democracy & Civic Engagement
Key Dates in Colonial American Religious History
The letter exchange between George Washington and the Hebrew congregation of Newport was not the only landmark event in the early history of America that dealt with issues of religious freedom and identity. Seixas’ letter and Washington’s subsequent response exist within a timeline of many other events during which the newly formed country faced those issues. Continue reading below for information about some of those events.
Audio
Holocaust
Let The World Know!
Two Jews meet with a Polish courier during the Grossaktion Warsaw in summer 1942, imploring him to tell the world what was happening to Jews.
Audio
Global Immigration
Race in US History
Lost in Translation
Rapper Ruby Ibarra reflects on her Filipino-American experience and the role of language in this spoken-word poem.
Audio
Race in US History
The Reconstruction Era
W.E.B. Du Bois Reflects on the Purpose of History
In 1935, W. E. B. Du Bois published an influential book titled Black Reconstruction in America. This audio excerpt, from a chapter titled “The Propaganda of History,” questions the ways in which Reconstruction was being studied and taught at the time.
Audio
Race in US History
Civil Rights Movement
We Wanted to Be Treated as Men
Elmore Nickleberry and Taylor Rogers, two former sanitation workers from Memphis, share their memories of the events leading up to the 1968 sanitation strike, as well as their participation in the strike itself.
Search Our Global Collection
Everything you need to get started teaching your students about racism, antisemitism and prejudice.