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Yad Vashem

Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, is the ultimate source for Holocaust education, documentation and research. From the Mount of Remembrance in Jerusalem, Yad Vashem's integrated approach incorporates meaningful educational initiatives, groundbreaking research and inspirational exhibits

The Holocaust

Hall of Names - Yad Vashem, Holocaust Memorial, Jerusalem.

Hall of Names - Yad Vashem, Holocaust Memorial, Jerusalem

Complicity

The Jedwabne pogrom was a massacre of Polish Jews in the town of Jedwabne, German-occupied Poland, on 10 July 1941. About 40 non-Jewish Poles carried out the crime. This image is the memorial marker.

The Jedwabne pogrom was a massacre of Polish Jews in the town of Jedwabne, German-occupied Poland, on 10 July 1941. About 40 non-Jewish Poles carried out the crime. This image is the memorial marker.

Denial

The trial of Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem where Arendt’s “Banality of Evil,” captured his denial of responsibility.

The trial of Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann in Jerusalem where Arendt’s “Banality of Evil,” captured his denial of responsibility.

Human Rights

Wall of Remembrance at the USHMM

Wall of Remembrance at the USHMM

International Response

Accused perpetrators at the Nuremberg Trials.

Accused perpetrators at the Nuremberg Trials.

Propaganda

Examples of Nazi Propaganda from the 1930s.

Examples of Nazi Propaganda from the 1930s.

Remembrance

A Holocaust Remembrance Candle

A Holocaust Remembrance Candle

Resistance

Memorial at the Mila Street bunker for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Memorial at the Mila Street bunker for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Survival

Child survivors of Auschwitz, wearing adult-size prisoner jackets, stand behind a barbed wire fence.

Child survivors of Auschwitz, wearing adult-size prisoner jackets, stand behind a barbed wire fence.

About this Resource:

Type(s) of Resources: 
  • Classroom Resources
  • Curriculum Guides
  • Educational Programs
  • Lesson Plans
  • Museums
  • Videos (Film)
  • Virtual Programs
  • Primary Source(s): 
  • Data
  • First Person Accounts
  • Government Documents
  • Maps
  • Interviews
  • Letters
  • Photographs
  • The Arts (Music, Art)
  • Video / Film
  • Grade Level(s): 
  • 6-12
  • Audience(s): 
  • Community Member
  • Teacher and Student
  • Discipline(s): 
  • Language Arts
  • Social Studies
  • The Arts