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Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust

Understanding and Teaching the Holocaust provides a starting point for teachers in many disciplines to illuminate this crucial event in world history for students. Using a vast array of source materials—from literature and film to survivor testimonies and interviews—the contributors demonstrate how to guide students through these sensitive and painful subjects within their specific historical and social contexts. ISBN: 9780299328603

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.

Human Rights

Wall of Remembrance at the USHMM

Wall of Remembrance at the USHMM

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: 
  • Non-fiction
  • Primary Source(s): 
  • First Person Accounts
  • Letters
  • Photographs
  • Grade Level(s): 
  • 9-12
  • Audience(s): 
  • Teacher
  • Discipline(s): 
  • Social Studies