More Teaching Resources

[ The HopeSite HomePage ] [Remember | Reflect | Rekindle]

Eight free posters on the history of the Holocaust

Nuremberg War Crimes Trials, transcribed

One of our most important projects is mounting the full proceedings of the Trial of the Major German War Criminals. We have so far mounted volumes 1-4 as well as numerous supporting documents.

Video Clips of Holocaust Survivors Speaking to High School Students

There are now over eighty digital clips in our archive. The clips are one to two minutes in length, and organized in a question and answer format. The survivors were speaking at the VHRES Holocaust Symposium which is held in Victoria, BC, Canada every year.
Video clips from survivors speaking at Victoria's 2004 Holocaust Education Symposium

British Library Holocaust Resources

British Library's collection of over 150 million items covers every age and place of written civilization, from unique historical documents to the latest information sources for business, industry and research

The Holocaust Remembrance Project

This "Theme Page" has links to two types of resources related to the study of the Holocaust. Students and teachers will find curricular resources (information, content...) to help them learn about this topic. In addition, there are also links to instructional materials (lesson plans) which will help teachers provide instruction in this theme."

Holocaust Teacher Education Center

"Educators, (kindergarten through college) will find at this site materials which can be brought into the classroom and studied. Whenever possible entire documents are included and may be downloaded for direct use in the classroom" The site includes lesson plans, videographies, curricula, book reviews, and more

May Their Memories Be A Blessing - A Guide to Understanding the Holocaust

"In creating this site, we have concentrated on primary sources - pictures, documents, and firsthand accounts - rather than giving a mere overview. To understand the Holocaust, one must understand the history of the Jews. For this reason, this site includes information on anti-Semitism before the Holocaust, including a chronology beginning at 1300 B.C.E."

The Holocaust Educational Foundation

A private, non-profit organization established in 1980 by survivors, their children, and their friends in order to preserve and promote awareness of the reality of the Holocaust.

The Shoah Education Project

This interactive web site is an "attempt to change hearts, to change perspectives, to make us all far more than tolerant of each other. Both the persons who tormented and persecuted, and the persons who were victimized and suffered, were initially, persons just like us. This program was designed to teach Shoah education in the church and synagogue, but is adaptable for all uses. Please visit our slide presentation, available to all educators for free, and downloadable with permission"

Jewish Virtual Library on The Holocaust

Over 70 major topics are covered, including; Bibliography of The Holocaust, The Burning of the Books, The Controversy Over Richard Wagner, German Business and the Third Reich, The Gestapo, Holocaust Glossary, Judenrat, Kristallnacht, Maps, Moral Dilemmas Faced by Jewish Doctors During the Holocaust, The Nazi Olympics, The Nuremberg Laws, Photographs, Resistance, The Swastika, What Makes the Holocaust Unique?, A Reflection on the Shoah from the Vatican, What We Knew and When We Knew It, etc.

Literature about the Holocaust

An extensive, searchable, list

"The Ugly Truth about Hate: Exploring the Reasons for Hate Crimes" A Lesson plan

An overview of the lesson: Students investigate examples of hate crimes and their causes by participating in a roundtable discussion. Students also write a personal essay describing their personal views on the subject and describing a plan for putting their views into action.

Teaching the Holocaust, a University of Arizona course by Edith Shaked

An Online Interactive Mini-Course: How Did They Survive - Holocaust Survivors Speak Out

A Meta-Index of Holocaust-related web sites

There is a wealth of well documented material here. Each site is an invaluable, rich resource for teachers interested in learning and teaching about the Holocaust and other hate-related crimes.

We Were Children Then: Vancouver Child Survivors Remember

This teacher's resource guide was prepared for use by intermediate and secondary teachers in preparation for class visits to the exhibits "How Their Hearts Must Have Trembled: Children and the Holocaust" and "We Were Children Then: Vancouver Survivors Remember". At the heart of the guide are eyewitness testimonies, artifacts and writings of members of Vancouver's community of child survivors. The activities in the guide are aimed at a cross-section of grades and student learning levels to reflect the broad range of student visitors that come to the Education Centre.

The Unremembered: Searching for Women at the Holocaust Memorial

"The purpose of this web site is to make available information about two subjects that are under-recorded: lesbians during the Holocaust and women of all sexual orientations who resisted in the underground, the ghettos and the camps."

Holocaust Studies Program

The series covers 31 historical Holocaust topics

Holocaust/Genocide Project (HGP)

The Holocaust/Genocide Project (HGP) is an international, nonprofit, telecommunications project focusing on study of the Holocaust and other genocides. The purpose of the HGP is to promote education and awareness, and to encourage the application of this knowledge in a way which makes a positive difference in the world.

It involves schools in the United States, Israel, Australia,
Argentina, Bulgaria, Belarus, Russia, Poland, South Africa, Germany,
Slovakia, the Netherlands, and Estonia.

The HGP welcomes all students -- Age 12-17 -- and teachers, internationally.

The Holocaust: A Tragic Legacy

A site made by high school students

1938-39 Historical Archives

Original newspaper clippings that document what the world knew in 1938 and 1939.

 

Over Fifty Holocaust History resource links

 

The Holocaust Gallery

"The holocaust left deep scars on the jewish nation. For many years artists in all media have been battling with this subject. As a jewish artist, I believe it is my obligation to contribute to its commemoration. This series depicts mainly pre-holocaust images that portray the jewish spirit during those dire years."

The Truth About Anne Frank

A Twelve Hour Class Outline, by Daniel T. Barkowitz. "Created for use in High School Programs (8th to 12th grades) at Temple Shalom, Newton and Temple Israel, Boston. It is divided into a twelve week class outline, each class lasting one hour. Copyright 1992 All Rights Reserved."

Teaching the Holocaust

12 Holocaust lessons for teachers.

Education...A Legacy Forum for Teaching the Holocaust

For teachers: exchange lesson plans, share new ideas, and help students learn. Features the CD-ROM "Lest We Forget", an online study guide, a timeline, the Cybrary Bookstore
featuring over 2001 titles available online, and more

All about Victoria's Holocaust Symposium

The Symposium is designed to teach students to think and learn about the Holocaust and its relevance for today.

The Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide

The purpose of this web-based teaching resource is to provide teachers and students at upper secondary education institutions with the best possible interactive tool for teaching and learning about the Holocaust.

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust

"These activities have been developed for teachers to use as a guide. Our intent is to give teachers a framework to follow for use in a Holocaust unit of study. The philosophy behind these activities is based on constructivist pedagogy, brain-based learning and the awareness of the theory of multiple intelligences. We hope teachers will use them and build on them to fit the needs of students, taking into account their age, maturity, and ability levels. We strongly urge teachers to read and reread the Guidelines for Teaching the Holocaust published by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum before designing activities or using the ones we offer in A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust. The suggestions and cautions the Holocaust Museum offers are important and invaluable in delivering Holocaust instruction. The sensitivity of the subject matter requires careful consideration when designing curriculum and guiding students in presentations and research."

Jewish resistance

This site explores many forms of resistance pursued by Jews during the Shoah. "It is a fallacy to think that the Jews did not resists the Nazis; armed resistance was spotty but passive resistance flourished in many forms. When the ghettos were created the Germans tried to starve the Jews to death, the Ghettos responded. In addition, the Jews used extensively many forms of passive resistance by building of hiding places (so called bunkers), hiding in the forest and on "Aryan papers", jumping from the death trains. The Jews showed tremendous resilience and inventiveness in adapting to life under inhuman conditions, but there was a general lack of armed resistance." Written by Alexander Kimel -
Holocaust Survivor

Do You Know? Will you Remember?

Books and Web sites about the Holocaust for Young Adults

Headlines from History

A collage of newspaper headlines from WW II Canada

Idea: A Journal of Social Issues

Social Studies School Service Holocaust Learning Materials

"We have just developed a web site with social studies educators in mind. Part of what we offer is an online catalog from which individuals can order charts, posters, books, videocassettes, cd-roms, etc. for teaching about the holocaust."

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust

An overview of the people and events of the Holocaust through text, documents, photos, art and literature.

Open Hearts, Closed Doors: The War Orphans Project

"After the war, a group of young Jewish orpahs immigrated to Canada from the devestation of Europe as part of the War Orphans Proejct. Using their own words and artifacts, this virtual exhibit tells the story of the orphans' courage and resilience and of the tireless efforts of the people who helped them..."

The Story of Oscar Schindler

"Oscar Schindler has been described as a cynical, greedy exploiter of slave workers during the Second World War, a black-marketer, gambler, member of the Nazi party eternally on the lookout for profit, alcoholic playboy and shameless womanizer of the worst sort. In the beginning of the 1960s, this same Oscar Schindler was honoured in Israel and declared "Righteous" and invited to plant a tree in The Avenue of the Righteous, which leads to the Yad Vashem Museum in Jerusalem. A memorial in the Park of Heroes praises him as the Saviour of more than 1,200 Jews!" [Quoted from the site] The information on this site is based on an article that appeared in Danish magazines.

Visas for Life: The Remarkable Story of Chiune and Yukiko Sugihara

This study guide was developed for teachers in preparation for class visits to the exhibit "Visas for Life" at the Vancouver Holocaust Centre. The exhibit was about the rescue of Jews by non-Jews, Chiune and Yukiko Sugihara, in 1940. The activities in this guide are offered as a sampler of possibilities for the classroom. Audience: Intermediate and Secondary

The Holocaust: A Select Bibliography

Teacher Resources at Coehn Center for Holocaust Studies, Keene State College

Anne Frank - Online Teacher's Guide Book

"People will always follow a good example; be the one to set a good example, then it won't be long before the others follow..How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment, we can start now, start slowly changing the world! How lovely that everyone, great and small, can make their contribution toward introducing justice straightaway...And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!"--Anne Frank, "Give," March 26, 1944

 

The Beth Shalom Holocaust Web Centre

Acts as a central hub for three distinct main sites:
Holocaustcentre.net
Holocausthistory.net
Holocaustbookstore.net

Teaching the Holocaust through Stamps

This site describes a teaching unit for purchase that deals with the Holocaust. The teaching tasks are carried out through the use of stamps, pictures, children's paintings and text.

Timeline of the Holocaust

The Holocaust Teacher Resource Center

Dedicated to combating prejudice and bigotry by presenting documented facts about the Holocaust to derive positive lessons how to make this a better and safer world for everybody.

Holocaust and Jewish Education at The Second World War

"There was a direct connection between the events of the war and the growth of Jewish education in America. It is the purpose of this study to describe and explain this period of Jewish history, focusing primarily on the world of Jewish education. The study covers three broad periods: Jewish education and culture in America and Europe before 1939; the war itself and the role of Jewish education in the lives of its victims; the postwar period of growth in Orthodox Jewish life in America."