| Facing History and Ourselves

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A curation of educational resources for school groups visiting the New England Holocaust Memorial.

A stone sign on the right reads Holocaust, with three glass pillars in view at the New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston, MA.

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Help your students be thoughtful, engaged viewers of Schindler's List with these lesson plans that foster reflection and make contemporary connections to the history.

Picture of a little girl in a red coat standing in front of people.

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Find interview transcripts, historical overviews, and primary source documents about a particular Jewish partisan or country.

Russian partisans, one of them photographer Faye Schulman, gathering together in the forest, Naliboki Forest, Belarus, December 1944. The Molotava Brigade was a partisan group made up mostly of escaped Soviet Army POWs. The woman pictured is Faye Schulman, a Jewish woman who fled into the Naliboki forest with her camera equipment and joined the Molotova Brigade. For two years in the forest she photographed the partisan's activities, worked as medical aid and participated in the partisans raid's.

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Explore the stories of Jewish partisans that stood against Nazi oppression, genocide, and antisemitism during World War II.

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Explore resources that meet the Massachusetts History and Social Science Framework.

Students working in groups in a classroom

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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.

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Designed for California 10th grade world history courses, this unit guides students through a study of the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide that focuses on choices and human behavior.

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This collection features powerful accounts of the Holocaust, told by survivors, rescuers, and witnesses, selected from USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive.

Nate Leipciger shares testimony with students.

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Use this 23-lesson unit to lead middle or high school students through a study of the Holocaust that asks what this history can teach us about the power and impact of choices.

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Engage students in personal accounts from survivors with this collection of video testimony, survivor profiles, and a lesson plan.

Holocaust Survivor Barbara Fischman shares her testimony.

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Lead your students through a detailed and challenging study of the Holocaust that asks what this history can teach us about the power and impact of choices.

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Lead students in an examination of identity, membership and belonging, and civic participation through an analysis of historical case studies and literature.

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Educator Resources for New England Holocaust Memorial

Teaching Schindler's List

Explore the Partisans

Resistance during the Holocaust: An Exploration of the Jewish Partisans

Resources for Civic Education in Massachusetts

Children of Willesden Lane

Teaching the Holocaust and Armenian Genocide: For California Educators

Survivors and Witnesses: Video Testimony

Teaching Holocaust and Human Behavior

Teaching with Testimony

Teaching Holocaust and Human Behaviour (UK)

Developing Student Voice, Character, and Civic Agency