Teaching About the Holocaust

"Six Candles"
by Chaim Goldberg
from The Beth Shalom Holocaust
Memorial Centre

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

   The Holocaust: A Learning Site for Students - http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005143
   Online exhibits - http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/
   Student Resources About the Holocaust from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
        http://www.ushmm.org/education/forstudents/
    Education resources for Teaching About the Holocaust - http://www.ushmm.org/education/
   Guidelines for Teaching about the Holocaust from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum
        http://www.ushmm.org/education/foreducators/guideline/

Student Activities for teaching about the Holocaust for elementary, middle school, and high school -
   http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/Holocaust/activity/activity.htm
  Elementary - http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/activity/Intermed.htm
  Middle School - http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/activity/MiddleSc.htm
 
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust from Florida Center for Instructional Technology
   http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/default.htm

Holocaust Teacher Resource Center - lesson plans
http://www.holocaust-trc.org/lesson.htm
Children's book lists - http://www.holocaust-trc.org/chldbook.htm

Museum of Tolerance - Simon Wiesenthal Center
http://www.museumoftolerance.com/site/c.tmL6KfNVLtH/b.5052463/k.AE91/Teacher_Resources.htm

Lesson Plans for Grades 4-12 about the Holocaust from Remember.org
http://remember.org/educate/moretta.html

Teaching About the Holocaust Through Stamps - Plus drawings from Israeli children
http://web.macam98.ac.il/~ochayo//kids/einvert.htm       

The Holocaust History Project - http://www.holocaust-history.org/

The Anne Frank Center - http://annefrank.com/
   Anne Frank - http://annefrank.com/about-anne-frank/who-is-anne/
   Diary Excerpts - http://annefrank.com/about-anne-frank/diary-excerpts/
    
The Holocaust from About.com
http://history1900s.about.com/od/holocaust/tp/holocaust.htm

A Review of The Last, The Very Last...Butterfly
http://www.iearn.org/hgp/aeti/1995-another-butterfly.html

Remember Our Faces - Teaching About the Holocaust  - ERIC Digest
http://www.ericdigests.org/1992-3/holocaust.htm

Holocaust bibliographies - http://archive.adl.org/education/holocaust/holocaust_bibl.asp
                             http://www.ushmm.org/education/foreducators/workshop/pdf/bibliography.pdf
                             http://www.carolhurst.com/subjects/history/holocaust.html
                          

K-12 Curriculum Guides from New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education 
http://www.state.nj.us/njded/holocaust/curriculum/

Books to Read:

         The Diary of Anne Frank
             Teacher's Guide - http://annefrank.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/MacMillan-Teachers-Guide.pdf
             Readers' Companion - http://annefrank.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/AFC-Readers-Companion-Diary-of-AnneFrank1.pdf

         Twenty and Ten Claire Hutchet Bishop
               Lesson Plan http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/activity/35plan/fourth.htm

         Journey to America by Sonia Levitan
              Lesson Plan http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/activity/912plan/AMERICA.htm 

   Number the Stars by Lois Lowry
        Lesson Plan http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/activity/35plan/fifth.htm
        Lesson Plan http://bhollis.homestead.com/number_the_stars.htm
        Lesson Plan http://www.carolhurst.com/titles/numberthestars.html

  Lisa's War by Carol Matas

         Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan
               Lesson Plan http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/activity/35plan/snow.htm
                  Questions - http://simpleliterature.com/id4.html

         The Upstairs Room by Johanna Reiss
               Lesson Plan http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/activity/35plan/UPSTAIRS.htm

         The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen
              Lesson Plan - http://janeyolen.com/works/the-devils-arithmetic/
                             http://macombschools.org/udl-e3t/LPC1PV.cfm?ID=492
                             http://web.archive.org/web/20080511003859/http://www.cambios.org/TeacherGuideDetail.asp?TeacherResourceID=2

      Teen Book Lists - http://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/teens/books_about_the_holocaust.php

      Books by grade level - Grade Index
                               Children's Books
        
      Holocaust Lesson Plans - http://www.scholastic.com/teachers/lesson-plan/holocaust-what-do-you-know
                                 http://www.educationworld.com/a_lesson/lesson187.shtml
                                 http://www.vhec.org/images/pdfs/loc_guide.pdf

 

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