International Response

This PBS lesson is designed for students who already have some background knowledge regarding the genocide. It provides a thorough list of objectives, instructions, and resources for educators to use in their classrooms.

IWitness is an educational website developed by USC Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education that provides access to more than 1,500 full life histories, testimonies of survivors and witnesses to the Holocaust and other genocides for guided exploration. IWitness brings the human stories of the Institute's Visual History Archive to secondary school teachers and their students via engaging multimedia-learning activities.

The Foundation currently has more than 55,000 video testimonies, each one a unique source of insight and knowledge that offers powerful stories from history that demand to be explored and shared. They average a little over two hours each in length and were conducted in 65 countries and 43 languages. The vast majority of the testimonies contain a complete personal history of life before, during, and after the interviewee’s firsthand experience with genocide.

An overview of the people and events of the Holocaust through photographs, documents, art, music, movies, and literature.

As young children, they lived through the Holocaust. 

The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education teaches the history of the Holocaust, applying its lessons to coun