Reference Materials

For teachers: Recent Resource Materials for Teaching the Holocaust
 

INTERNET SITES

PREJUDICE and DISCRIMINATION

 To the Educator: In the sites listed, one can find many other worthwhile sources. Please preview any Internet sites before assigning them to students. If you cannot get to the address listed, use the main url first, then go to desired site.

Prejudice and Stereotyping (Guide to Videos)
http://www.holocaust-trc.org/video_res.htm#2202

Films with description
 

Stereotypes and Prejudice
http://remember.org/History.root.Stereotypes.html

 

Hate, Prejudice and Stereotyping
http://www.wcupa.edu/_academies/holocaust.htm

Examples of Prejudice and Stereotyping
Resources, games, vocabulary, why, links, children’s Literature list related to Diversity
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/IESE/Projects/
Fortes/example.html

Stop the Hate
This site has other links
http://www.Stop-the-Hate.org

Don't Laugh At Me Project
http://www.dontlaugh.org/
Founded by Peter Yarrow of Peter, Paul, and Mary fame, the
Project is dedicated to reducing emotional and physical cruelty and providing children with safe, healthy environments.  Curriculum guides, music, and videos available through this site

Southern Poverty Law Center
http://www.SPLCenter.org
Issues Tolerance Magazine, creates educational materials and literature

Simon Wiesenthal Center
http://www.wiesenthal.com
Lessons and educational materials on tolerance and the Holocaust

Hatewatch
http://hatewatch.com
Contains Histories on hate groups

Anti-Defamation League
http://www.adl.org

Tracks Anti-Semitism and Hate groups

Japanese Americans: The War at Home
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwii/ahf/mineta/background.htm
Japanese Americans are rounded up and placed in internment
camps after the bombing of Pearl Harbor and United States' entry into World War II.

From Homemaker to Shipbuilder
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/wwii/ahf/reilly/work.htm
Homefront: Women in the work force during WWII
 

THE WORLD CHANGES: NAZISM ON THE RISE



Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island
http://www/ellisisland.org

http://www.nps.gov/stli/maimenu.htm

Statue of Liberty Facts
http://www.endex.com/gf/building/liberty/libertyfacts.htm
This site includes the poem by Emma Lazarus- The New Colossus

Shtetl (Frontline)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shtetl

Shtetl
http://metalab.unc.edu/yiddish/roots/html/holocaust.html
74 sites   Do a search on the Shtetl, Jews in Eastern Europe, Klezmer Music,
Fiddler on the Roof by Sholom Aleichem, Yiddish Theater and Jewish Geneology

The Nazi Holocaust 1938-1945
http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/holocaust.htm

An overview of the Holocaust (Site is known as the History Place)
 

Holocaust and Anti-Semitism
http://www.maven.co.il

This site has many other subjects
 

Hitler Youth- The History Place
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/hitleryouth/index.html

 

“Under the Blood Banner” by Eric Kreye- Story of Hitler Youth
http://www.amazingjoy.com/banner.htm


Eleanor’s Story: An American Girl in Hitler’s Germany
http://www.holocaust-trc.org/Eleanor_story_1p.htm


Lesson Plans for Teachers and Librarians Grade 5-12
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South Carolina Voice: Lessons from the Holocaust
Deals with the poem the Hangman-Nazi policy- Two experiences from Hitler’s Germany
http://www.scetv.org/HolocasutForeum?les2.html

Scholastic: Research Tools - The Holocaust and World War II
http://teacher.scholastic.com/researchtools/articlearchives/annefrank/index.htm

THE CHILDREN (can also be found in other categories)

The Children including many web sites
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/Holocasut/people/children

Hidden Children
http://history1900s.about.com/homework/history1900s/library/holocaust/aa02598.htm

The Children
http://wlc.ushmm.org/wlc/article.jsp?Moduled=1000542

Children’s Holocaust Stories
http://www.amazon.com or  www.barnesnoble.com

The Children and the Holocaust
http://www.mttsu.edu/~baustin/children.html

Childhood in Times of War by Andrew Salamon
Complete book about Hungary
http://remember.org/jcan

HIDING, RESCUE AND RESISTANCE
 

Hidden Children
http://history1900s.about.com/homework/history.1900s/library/holocaust/aa02598.htm

 

Anne Frank Internet Guide
http://www-th.phys.rug.nl/~ma/annefrank.html

Listing of Anne Frank organizations, life, diary and background, Educational exhibits, articles and books
 

Anne Frank On Line
http://www.annefrank.com
Anne Frank in the World, 1929-1945- Teacher’s Workbook

Grades 5-8th and 7-12th
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/lp_res/AnneFrank.html

My Story: We Remember Anne Frank
http://teacher.scholastic.com/frank/index.htm
Interview with Hanneli Pick-Goslar.  Teacher's Guide.
Miep Gies

We Remember Anne Frank
http://teacher.scholastic.com/frank/tguide/htm
We Remember Anne Frank Teacher's Guide

We Remember Anne Frank - Stories of Courage
http://teacher.scholastic.com/frank/stories.htm
Stories of seven rescuers and five Jewish survivors

Interview with Miep Gies
http://teacher.scholastic.com/frank/tscripts/miep.htm
May 1997 interview with Miep Gies, the woman who risked
her life daily to help hide the Frank family and others.

Holocaust Glossary
http://teacher.scholastic.com/frank/gloss.htm

For Resistance and other Holocaust Materials (56 page booklet)
http://www.ushmm.org/education/Resistance.pdf
 
Chapter 10-Jewish Resistance –From Understanding the Holocaust by Weston Walch, Publisher
http://www.socialstudies.com/c@cc6HgBy_7iaME/Pages/article.html?article@JWW255a

Righteous Conduct during the Holocaust
http://www.chambon.org/righteous_conduct.htm

Dimitar Peshev
Vice President of Bulgarian Parliament in 1943 help to save 43,000 Jews
http://web.tin.it/Peshev/story.htm

Belgian Rescue
Joseph Andre (1908-1973)
http://motic.wiensenthal.org/text/x00/x0085.html

Belgium- Information before the war and during
The Mechelen Museum of Deportation and Resistance
http://www.cicb.be.shoah/righteous.html

To Save One Life- The Stories of the Righteous Gentiles-20 pages
http://fcit.coedu.usf/Holocaust/people/save/lif.pdf

Resister, Rescuers and Bystanders
http://remember.org/guide/wit.root.wit.res.html

Rescuers during the Holocaust
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afsks.cmu.edu/user/mmbt/www/rescuers.html

Sugihara, Chiune
http://library.ushmm.org/sugihara.htm
Life and rescue, film and video and added resources

Visas for Life: The Remarkable Story of Chiune and Yukido Sugihara
http://www.hooked.net/users/rgreene/Sug.html
 

GHETTOS AND CAMPS

GHETTOS
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/Holocaust/timeline/ghettos.htm


LVOV GHETTO
http://motic.wiensenthal/org/pages047/t0478.html


Ghetto Fighter’s House Museum in Kibbutz Lochamei Hagetaot in Israel
And a Children’s Museum
http://www.gfh.org.il/english

Trapped in Darkness
http://ghetto.actiweb.com/
Minsk, Riga, Vilna and Babi Yar, maps and other topics

The Warsaw Ghetto
http://www.us~israel/jsource/Holocaust/warsawtoc.html
Large site covers from call to arms, to life, reports both from Jews and Germans, the Revolt, resistance, diaries and maps

Jewish Students on Line Research Center
Ghettos in occupied Europe, maps, Bialistok, Kovno, Vilna and Warsaw ghettos
http://www.us-israel.org/jsource/Holocaust/ghetto.html

Abe’s Story- Tells the story of Abe Korn from Poland from the beginning of the war until liberation with maps
http://www.remember.org/abe/
Survivors

Life in hiding, death factories, forced labor, rescue and risk, lessons plans
http://fcit.coedu.isf/edu/holocaust/people/survivor.htm


Night by Elie Wiesel- CyberGuide by Barbara Jania-Smith
http://www.sdcoe.k12.us/score/night/nighttg.html

This site has a Teacher’s Guide for the Holocaust, timelines, summaries. Victims, photos, student activities and much more

An Auschwitz Alphabet
http://www.spectacle.org/695/ausch.html
Each letter stands for a part of life that existed in Auschwitz, written by an American Jew whose grandparents came to the United States before the Holocaust

Alan Jacobs Photos of Auschwitz and the Camps
http://remember.org/jacobs/


C.A.N.D.L.E.S.
Children of Auschwitz site about twins, books and lessons plans
http://www.candles-museum.com/

I Saw the Walking Dead: A Black Sergeant Remembers Buchenwald
http://historymatters.gmuedu/text/964e-bass.html


Terezin
http://www.photo.net/bp/terezin

Visit the camp and comments of visitors that went there

Holocaust Oral Histories
http://holocaust.umd/umich.edu/

The Forgotten Camps
http://www.Jewishgen.org

List of camps, language, companies that were involved with camps, extermination and concentration camps, survivors, liberators, general information and art

Gypsies in the Holocaust
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/gypsy-holo.html

Modern History Source Book

A Brief Romani Holocaust Chronology
http://www.osi.hu/rpp/holocaust.html

Jehovah Witnesses in the Holocaust
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/people/VictJeho.htm

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust: Jehovah Witnesses

Holocaust Teacher Resource Center
http://www.holocaust-trc.org/Jehovah.htm

LITERATURE OF THE HOLOCAUST

Children’s Books on the Holocaust
http://holocaust_trc.org/bibliography.htm

Holocaust Centers and Archives-Queensborough Community College, NY

Children Stories about the Holocaust
http://www.amazon.com


Literature of the Holocaust
http://www.english.upenn.edu/%7Eafilreis/Holocaust/holhome.html


An On Line Magazine for Post-Holocaust Issues
http://users.systec.com/kimel/


Bibliography prepared by Ned Shulman
http://remember.org/guide/biblio.root.html


Children’s Literature Related To Diversity
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/IESE/Projects/Fortes/kidbooks.html


Holocaust Text Library Bibliography
http://www.pen.k12.ua.us/Anthology/Pau/LangArts?kindig.html
 

MUSIC, POETRY, ART AND PLAYS

ART WORK OF THE HOLOCAUST
http://motic.wiensenthal.org/albums/palbum/poo/a0021p3.html


THE ARTS
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/people/people.html

Roundup of the Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto
To the Little Polish Boy Standing with His Arms Up by Peter L. Fischl
http://www.holocaust-trc.org?FischlPoem.htm


Witness and Legacy Contemporary Art About the Holocaust
http://www.Educator_/Educator_Resource_Packet-Cieducators-resourcespacket-c.html


Holocaust Poetry and Art
http://www.datasync.com/~david959/holo_art.html


The Music of the Holocaust
http://www.org/hist.root.music.html


Opera –Brundibar
http://yahoo.com

type in Brundibar Opera –It has many sites

http://www.brundibar.net/web/templates/webbruuk.asp?RM=5

ARTS AND PICTURES
http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/Dinur/internetresources/holocauststudies.htm

Plays about the Holocaust
Dr. Yanush Korczak by Alina Kentof
Based on the book: A Field of Yellow Buttercups
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/Holocaust/resource/plays?Korczak2.htm

Music CD: “Stand Up! Speak Out!”- feature original songs that speak of prejudice, bullying, character and moral courage- The songwriter- singer- musician is available for school programs and assemblies.
http://www.soozaroo.com

 

SURVIVAL, LIBERATION AND NEW LIVES

Rescue and Liberation
http:fcit.coedu.usf/holocaust/timeline/RESCUE2.htm

The Aftermath
http://fcit.coedu.usf/holocaust/timeline/after.htm

The Nuremberg Trials
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-nurem.htm

Nuremberg Trial Proceedings- The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
Whole trial is posted
http://www.yale.edu/laweb/avalon/imt/proc/12-07-45.htm

Nuremberg Trial Series
http://www.lib.uconn.edu/DoddCenter/ASC/dodnurem.htm


Statistics of the Holocaust
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-statistics.htm

America and the Holocaust
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/

Interviews, transcripts, primary sources, bibliographies, maps, people, events teacher guides for films.

Genocide
Armenian, Rape of Nanking, Stalin’s Forced Famine, Pol Pot in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia Herzegovina http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/index.html

Armenian Genocide
It provides educational resources, genocide research and information on this genocide
http://www.armenian-genocide.org/

Genocide: Resources for Teaching and Research
http://www.people.menphis.edu/~genocide/


Armenian Genocide
http://www.genocide.am/index0.htm

Includes Armenian history, bibliography, article, on line text

Bosnia and Kosovo- Ethnic Cleansing
Kosovo: News, Background and Resources
http://www.kosovo.mod.uk/

US Department of State: Kosovo Humanitarian
http://www.state.gov/www/region/eur/kosovo_hp.html


Human Rights Watch
http://www.hrw.org


Holocaust: A Tragic Legacy
http://library-advanced.org/tq-admin/day.cgi
A Think Quest site designed by students-information on Bosnia-Herzegovina, Rwanda, Burundi and the Nuremberg Trials and much more

PHOTOGRAPHS AND VIDEOGRAPHY OF THE HOLOCAUST

Photographs of the Holocaust
http://history1900s.about.com/cs/photographs/Index.htm

Videography of the Holocaust
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/Holocaust/resources/films.htm

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum- Washington, DC
http://www.ushmm.org

Extensive photo archive

Alan Jacobs Photos of Auschwitz and the Camps
http://remember.org/jacobs/


Holocaust Picture Exhibit
http://www.fmv.ulg.ac.be/schmitz/holocaust.html

 

 HOW TO TEACH THE HOLOCAUST

HOLOCAUST STUDY RESOURCES
http://www.hum.huji.ac.il/Dinur/Internetresources/holocauststudies.htm
Art and photos, bibliography, books, general history, maps, links, museums,
89 sites

50 Educational Web Sites
http://www.jr.co.il/hotsites/j-holec.htm


A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust
http://fcit.coedu.usf/Holocaust

600 photos, movies, survivors, complete site index

Education- A Legacy for Teaching the Holocaust
http://remember.org/educate/Index.html


Holocaust Related Websites
http://fcit.edu.usf/Holocaust/resources/websites.htm

Teaching about the Holocaust Guide (136 pages)
http://www.ushmm.org/education/guide.htm

The Holocaust- A Guide for Teachers
Created by Gary Grobman
http://remember.org/guide/Index.html

Database for Teaching the Holocaust through Stamps
http://web.macam98.ac.il/~ochayo/linkem.htm

Six subjects, the executioner, the victim, the silent bystander, the Righteous and a stamp gallery

Jewish Net
http://jewishnet.net

Look for Holocaust Education
Search and Find- Arts and Humanities- History in the 20th Century
http://www.jewish.com/cgi-bin/links_2.0/jump.cgi?D=13272
Eyewitness accounts, second generation, Holocaust genealogical research, oral histories, tracing programs (American Red Cross), bearing witness, 3,800 Fortunoff Video archives

Holocaust Mediagraphy- Internet School Library Media Center
http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramscuil/holomed.htm

Bibliography, films, resources, children CD rom, liberators, rescuers, recommended readings

Cybrary of the Holocaust
http://remember.org

Vast source of information

Holocaust Resources for Teachers
http://fcit.coedu.usfHolocaust/resources/resources.htm

Bibliographies, movies, documents, museums, videography, galleries, music, plays, quizzes, maps and much more

United States Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
Teaching materials and photos
http://www.ushmm.org/Index.html
Get Guidelines for Teaching About the Holocaust-12pages

Simon Wiensenthal Multi Media Learning Center
http://www.wiesenthal.com


Shanash : The Jewish Internet Consortium Holocaust Page
http://www.shamash.org/holocaust/

Site refutes efforts of Holocaust deniers

Facing History and Ourselves
http://www.facing.org

Educational materials

Teaching Materials-Westchester University
Holocaust, The American Indian, Genocide of Asia, American Slavery, Genocide’s of Europe, Africa, Hate- Prejudice- and Stereotyping
http://www.wcupa.edu/_academies/holocaust/teach.htm

Tree of Life
http://www.shore.net/shalombk/holo.htm
List of Literature and teaching materials

The Holocaust: An Historical Summary
http://www.ushmm.org/education/history.html
Holocaust in chronological order, focusing on the rise of Nazism and the Final Solution

Holocaust Curriculum K-12
http://falcon.jmu.edu/schoollibrary/hologues.htm

Lesson Plans- Teaching Holocaust Themes in Elementary School
http://holocaust-trc.org/lesson.htm


The Shoah Foundation
http://www.vhf.org/

Visual history from Steven Spielberg

Holocaust Glossary
http://www.wiesenthal.com/resources/gloss.htm


The Holocaust- Questions and Activities for Thoughts and Discussion
http://www.fred.net/nhhs/html/hologues.htm

Questions to ask upon visiting Washington, DC Holocaust Museum

ORGANIZATIONS

Many Organizations can be found in previous sites

Social Studies School Service
http://www.socialstudies.com
Holocaust Resources and Materials
Lessons on the Internet
Teaching Holocaust Studies on the Internet
Multicultural Materials
Films (Zenger Media)

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
http://www.ushmm.org


Simon Wiesenthal Multi Media Learning Center
http://www.wiesenthal.org


The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
University of Minnesota
http://chgs.hispeed.com/

Cybrary of the Holocaust
http://www.remember.org


Anti-Defamation League
http://www.adl.org


New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education and Genocide Curriculum- K-4th Caring Makes a Difference, 5-8th- To Honor All Children: From Prejudice, to Discrimination, to Hatred…. to Holocaust, 9-12th grades- The Betrayal of Mankind
http://www.remember.org/hist.root.holo.html

 

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