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.
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.
Holocaust survivor Jack Arnel describes the German invasion of his hometown of Vilna, Lithuania. Credit: USC Shoah Foundation
Moshe Shamir was 19 years old and living in Czernowitz, in western Ukraine, when the Germans found him in 1941.
Holocaust survivor Nechama Shneorson describes when Nazis came to take children from a ghetto.
Zvi Michaeli describes how he survived when the Germans rounded up and massacred all the Jews in Eishyshok, Lithuania.