Holocaust Education
Online Resources
Selected Holocaust Education Sites
Anti-Defamation League: http://www.adl.org
Educational resources and teaching guides on the Holocaust, denial, combating hate, and antisemitism. Reports on current intergroup tensions. Includes the World of Difference program.
Cybrary of the Holocaust: http://www.remember.org
Online collection of research and resources related to the Holocaust, including art and photographs, stories by survivors and their children, lesson plans, timelines, and teacher’s guides.
Facing History and Ourselves: http://www.facinghistory.org
Orientation to Facing History program and resource books, supplementary materials available through resource center and web resources. Study guides for documentaries, films, books and exhibits. Extensive educational opportunities for teachers. Jewish Educators’ Program.
Ghetto Fighters’ House: http://www.gfh.org.il
Archive of photographs, art, documents from Israeli museum of the Holocaust and Jewish resistance. Detailed site on Janusz Korczak. Summer study opportunities in Poland and Israel.
Museum of Tolerance Learning Center of Simon Wiesenthal Center: http://motlc.wiesenthal.com
Online multimedia learning center, teacher resources, documents and photographs
PBS Online: Remembering the Holocaust: Classroom Resources - http://www.pbs.org/holocaust/classroom.html
Lesson plans and activities for grades 5 - 8 and 9 - 12. Extensive PBS links including "Schindler's List;" "The American Experience: America and the Holocaust, Deceit and Indifference;" :Daring to Resist: Three Women Face the Holocaust;" "Frontline: Shtetl;" "People's Century: Master Race;" featuring teacher's guides, timelines, supplemental interviews and documents. Comprehensive links to national and international resources.
Pennsylvania Holocaust Education Task Force: http://www.HETF.org
Educational opportunities for PA teachers, online newsletter, comprehensive listing of Holocaust resource centers, bibliography/videography in association with amazon.com
A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust, Florida Center for Instructional Technology College of Education: http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/default.htm
Comprehensive site with history, documentation, art and photo archives, well-developed lesson plans for Holocaust literature, music and visual arts, and links.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: http://www.ushmm.org
Learning site for students, online exhibits with teacher’s guides, archives, photographs, request form for teaching materials, applications for educational workshops for teachers
Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority: http://yadvashem.org.il
Comprehensive site of history; online exhibits; photographs, documents, artifacts and scholarly articles from Israeli museum and research institute. Summer study programs in International School for Holocaust Studies.
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Prepared by Josey G. Fisher, Holocaust Education Consultant, Auerbach Central Agency for Jewish Education. Spring 2001
