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/outreach/index.html

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 -lots of web links, too
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/Holocaust/activity/activity.htm

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust from Florida Center for Instructional Technology
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/default.htm

Thematic Unit : Beginning Holocaust Studies Elementary
http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/activity/Intermed.htm
Thematic Unit : Beginning Holocaust Studies Middle School
http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/activity/MiddleSc.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 Multimedia Learning Center Online - Simon Wiesenthal Center
http://www.wiesenthal.com/mot/

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

Remember.org - http://www.remember.org/        

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

The Anne Frank Center - http://www.annefrank.com/       
Anne Frank Scrapbook for Younger Children -
http://www.annefrank.com/who-is-anne-frank/scrapbook/

The Holocaust from About.com
http://history1900s.about.com/homework/history1900s/library/holocaust/blholocaust.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 Bibliography - http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/holres.htm

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
             Lesson Plan Readers' Companion http://www.annefrank.com/download/material_readersguide.doc

         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 from Jim Cornish - http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/number_the_stars.htm

  Lisa's War by Carol Matas

         Snow Treasure by Marie McSwigan
               Lesson Plan http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/activity/35plan/snow.htm
                  Questions http://www.dps61.org/1558201220181851670/blank/browse.asp?A=383&BMDRN=2000&BCOB=0&C=56052

         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://www.cambios.org/TeacherGuideDetail.asp?TeacherResourceID=2

      Book lists for teaching about the Holocaust:
         http://www.carolhurst.com/subjects/history/holocaust.html

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

      Books by grade level -
         http://www.chgs.umn.edu/Links___Bibliography/Bibliography/Children_s_Book_About_Holocaus/Grade_Index/grade_index.html
         http://www.chgs.umn.edu/Links___Bibliography/Bibliography/Children_s_Book_About_Holocaus/children_s_book_about_holocaus.html

      Bibliography - http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/holres.htm
 

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