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The Holocaust

 
Museums and Centers
Informational Sites
Lesson Plans, WebQuests, and Online Activities
Recommended Books
Recommended Videos

 

 

Museums and Centers

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The US Holocaust Memorial Museum is a living memorial established to honor the victims and survivors of the Holocaust and to ensure that the lessons of the Holocaust will be taught in perpetuity.

Florida Holocaust Museum
The Florida Holocaust Museum honors the memory of millions of innocent men, women, and children who suffered or died in the Holocaust. The Museum is dedicated to teaching members of all races and cultures to recognize the inherent worth and dignity of human life in order to prevent future genocides.

Cybrary of the Holocaust
Homepage of the Cybrary of the Holocaust. One of the largest web sites on the Holocaust. It contains encyclopedic information, answers to frequently asked questions, curriculum outlines, excerpts from Survivor testimony, transcripts of Nazi speeches and official documents, artifact photos, historical photos, artwork, poetry, books written by Survivors, links to other Holocaust sites and more.

The Anne Frank Museum
The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam.

Anne Frank Center
This site is dedicated to everything about Nazis’ most famous victim.

Survivors of the Shoah
The Visual History Foundation created by Steven Spielberg has recorded more than 25,000 videotaped interviews with Holocaust Survivors. These are being recorded electronically for computer distribution to museums, CD-ROMs, and other sites. You can find out more about it at this website.

Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
The Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation contains information about the Jewish partisans during the Holocaust. It also contains study guides for teacher resources.

The Holocaust Documentation and Education Center & Museum: A Legacy of Remembrance
The Holocaust Documentation & Education Center is recognized as a paradigm for Holocaust resources in the areas of documentation and education. The Center is an influential, national reference base for those studying and researching the Holocaust.

The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Central Florida, Inc.
The Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Central Florida is a not-for-profit, interfaith, interdenominational organization. Its mission is to provide educational and cultural experiences - to examine the past in order to learn from it and to help people become aware of and alert to present dangers to our freedoms, our human rights and our lives by learning the lessons of the Holocaust.

Center for Holocaust & Human Rights Education
The Center for Holocaust and Human Rights Education (CHHRE) at Florida Atlantic University presents cutting-edge training and resources to teachers involved in Holocaust and genocide education. The Center offers workshops, advanced seminars, and summer institutes for K-12 teachers working in the fields of history, arts, languages, religion, science, technology, politics, and social studies. The (CCHRE) serves all schools in the counties of Broward, Palm Beach, Martin, St. Lucie, Indian River, Glades, and Okeechobee.

Simon Wiesenthal Center
The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust by fostering tolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach and social action.

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Informational Sites

The History Place: Holocaust Timeline
A timeline of the events of the Holocaust from 1933 to 1945.

The Holocaust
Links to photos, articles, and information about the Holocaust, as well as links to Internet sites on the topic.

The Holocaust Chronicle
This web site contains every word and image that appear in the print edition of The Holocaust Chronicle, published by Publications International, Ltd in April 2000. [NOTE: If working with students who struggle with reading, you can copy and paste the text into Microsoft Word and use the AutoSummarize feature under the Tools menu.]

The Holocaust History Project
The Holocaust History Project is a free archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays regarding the Holocaust, including direct refutation of Holocaust-denial.

Holocaust Survivors
Here you findhistory with a human face. Read the stories of the survivors. Hear them speak. Look at their family photographs. Consult the encyclopedia. Read a historical introduction to the Holocaust. Leave your thoughts or ask your questions on the discussion page.

Holocaust Teacher Resource 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 Nizkor Project
Nizkor is the Hebrew word for "We Will Remember". This site has good resources on the camps, people, trials, places, etc.

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Lesson Plans, WebQuests, and Online Activities

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
An overview of the people and events of the Holocaust through photographs, documents, art, music, movies, and literature. This site was developed by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology at the University of South Florida.

Holocaust Theme Page
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.

The Holocaust Special Theme Page
Lessons and ideas for teaching the Holocaust.

Anne Frank: The Life of a Young Girl
A classroom study guide for a study of Anne Frank. It would be useful for classes on World History, World Culture, Literature, Religion, Ethics and the Holocaust. It is appropriate for middle school and high school.

Anne Frank: The Missing Pages
In the past few years, it has come to light that there were five pages of the Anne Frank's Diary that Otto Frank did not publish. Anne Frank: The Missing Pages reveals these pages and their journey. Anne Frank: The Missing Pages would be useful for classes on World History, Holocaust History, Literature, 20th Century Culture and Ethics. It is appropriate for middle school and high school.

Holocaust Encyclopedia
The Holocaust Museum's online encyclopedia containing articles, film, photographs, individual histories, survivor testimony, chronologies, maps, artifacts, music, and links to resources.

Online Teacher Workshop
An online workshop to provide resources and guidance for teachers, as well as help in finding additional resources in their area.

Arthur and Rochelle Belfer Exemplary Lessons Initiative
Middle and high school educators were invited to submit lessons to illustrate or add to student understanding of individual responsibility during the Holocaust as reflected in one or more of the Tenth Anniversary themes: Resistance, Response, Rescue, and Renewal.

The Holocaust
A curriculum hotlist of sites with information and educational content about the Holocaust.

The Holocaust: A Learning Site for Students
Organized by theme, this site uses text, historical photographs, maps, images of artifacts, and audio clips to provide an overview of the Holocaust. It is the first step in a growing resource for middle and secondary level students and teachers, with content that reflects the history as it is presented in the Museum's Permanent Exhibition, The Holocaust.

Voices of the Holocaust
A WebQuest for 12th-Grade World History.

The Holocaust
From PBS's TeacherSource, in this lesson high school students will understand the German National Socialism (Nazi) extermination campaign against European Jewry and other targeted groups within the context of World War II history; appraise responses to the Holocaust by governments and individuals; reflect on racism and stereotyping; and reflect on responsibility and remembrance.. (pdf file)

Mr. Donn's Holocaust Resources
Links to good teaching resources.

Courage in Chaos
Students study the quality of courage found among both survivors and rescuers during the Holocaust. Students reflect on their own courage as they decide if they would make a stand to protect persecuted people with different beliefs. Based on the novel, Number the Stars, by Lois Lowery.

Anne Frank WebQuest
Students explore the history of the Holocaust and the life of Anne Frank. They are required to create a timeline detailing events of the Holocaust and write a mock diary entry.

The Holocaust: Through the eyes of Anne Frank
Anne Frank was a young girl who told her story of the Holocaust through her writings in her diary. Follow this quest to experience the life of Anne Frank.

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Recommended Books

 

Teacher Resources

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Recommended Videos

Lessons of the Holocaust [#1016 in the RMTC Video Library - Available only to Florida teachers of deaf/hard-of-hearing students]

Schindler's List, by Stephen Spielberg (for older students) [#684 in the RMTC Library - Available only to Florida teachers of deaf/hard-of-hearing students]

Survivors of the Holocaust, by Stephen Spielberg

Oprah's list of movies for all ages (listed by movie rating)

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