Fort Ontario refugee center high school classroom
Dr. David Hendell, courtesy of USHMM Photo Archives
Fort Ontario refugee center high
school classroom
Dr. David Hendell, courtesy of USHMM Photo
Archives
The resources listed below are recommended to help students complete their inquiry based
research projects on the Holocaust. Instructional materials used by the teacher in the
course of the World War II unit have also been noted.
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| The Holocaust Encyclopedia | Illustrated articles are provided on such topics as the United States and the Holocaust, The Third Reich, Anti-Semitism, pogroms, ghettos, forced labor, extermination camps, victims, women, children, Jewish and non-Jewish resistance, rescue, liberation, war crimes trials and more. Historical film footage, audio files, photographs, artifacts, maps are included. Use the "FIND ARTICLES ON" search tool to locate additional material. |
| The
Holocaust: A Student Learning Site |
The site offers text-based articles with graphics under five main topic headings: Nazi Rule, Jews in Prewar Germany, Nazi Camp System, The "Final Solution", Rescue and Resistance. Links to key dates, artifacts, biographies and a glossary are given. The content supplements material provided by The Holocaust Encyclopedia. |
| Holocaust Personal Histories | A thematic arrangement of testimony excerpts and identification cards grouped by such categories as hiding, children, refugees, ghettos, deportations, camps, resistance and survival. |
| Identification Cards | 37 identification cards portray the experiences of individuals (primarily children) during the Nazi era. |
| Museum Exhibitions | Online exhibitions are presented on such topics as Polish-born Jewish artist Arthur Szyk, Music of the Holocaust, Berlin during the Nazi deportations, the Holocaust era in Croatia, Jewish Displaced Persons 1945-1951, Poetry and the Holocaust, The Holocaust in Greece, Voyage of the St. Louis, The Kovno Ghetto, Kristallnacht, The Nazi Olympics, Nazi Book Burnings, Offenbach Archival Depot (plundered Jewish cultural assets), The Doctor's Trial, Deadly Medicine, Oskar Schindler, Anne Frank, courageous Church leaders Father Jacques and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. |
| Photo Archives | Search by keyword or subject heading. Some lengthy annotations are given. Access to approximately 1,500 photographs from the Museum's collection of more than 70,000 images. |
| Resistance during the Holocaust |
A detailed booklet in pdf format describes examples of armed and unarmed resistance by Jewish and non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust. |
| Victims of the Nazi Era, 1933-1945 |
The experiences of non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust are described in downloadable brochures on Jehovah's Witnesses, Poles, Homosexuals, Handicapped, Sinti and Roma (Gypsies). |
| Web Links | Recommended online resources for such topics as the arts, camp system, churches, ghettos, Holocaust denial, liberation, rescue, resistance, survivors, US and the Holocaust, victims' assets, war crimes trials, and women. |
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| America and the Holocaust | The PBS Web site for the "American Experience" documentary on the U.S. reaction to the Holocaust includes primary sources on US reluctance to aid Jews and letters from Jewish parents to their son in America prior to their deportation to Auschwitz. |
| The Holocaust Chronicle | This site offers an online full-text 800 page reference book. Search by keyword, date or use the index. |
| Internet Jewish History Sourcebook | Public domain historical texts. See sections on Anti-Semitism, Shoah and Nazi source documents. |
| Jewish Virtual Library | This comprehensive Jewish encyclopedia contains articles and links on the Holocaust and on other topics of Jewish history, religion and culture. |
| Learning about the Holocaust through Art | An introductory essay, biographical material for artists and searchable art works reproductions are provided. |
| Museum of Tolerance Online Multimedia Learning Center | Extensive information accessible through an alphabetical index and 36 questions on the Holocaust. |
| netLibrary | Full text electronic books include many nonfiction titles on the Holocaust and World War II. |
| Safe Haven | The only camp for Holocaust refugees on American soil was established in Oswego, NY in 1944. |
| Teacher Oz's Kingdom of History | Extensive listing of Holocaust and World War II links. |
| A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust | A Holocaust overview through photographs, documents, art, music, literature, and historical timeline. |
| Voice Vision: Holocaust Survivor Oral Histories |
The University of Michigan-Dearborn's Mardigian Library features print, audio, and video versions of oral histories given by Holocaust survivors. |
| Voices of the Holocaust |
70 first-hand accounts by Holocaust victims from interviews conducted in 1946. Text and audio files provided by Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). |
| Yad Vashem - The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority | Israel’s national Holocaust memorial includes photo archives, and exhibitions on children, Youth Groups in the Lodz Ghetto, the Auschwitz Album, Women in the Holocaust, and Diplomats that Rescued Jews. |
| Adler, David A. We remember the Holocaust. New York : H. Holt, 1989. |
Appleman-Jurman, Alicia. Alicia : my story. New York : Bantam Books, 1988. |
Bauer, Yehuda, and Nili Keren. A history of the Holocaust. Rev. ed. New York : F. Watts, 2001. |
Del Calzo, Nick The triumphant spirit : portraits & stories of Holocaust survivors-- their messages of hope & compassion. Denver, CO : Triumphant Spirit Pub., 1997. |
Different voices : women and the Holocaust / edited and with introductions by Carol Rittner and John K. Roth. New York : Paragon House, 1993. |
Eichengreen, Lucille. From ashes to life : my memories of the Holocaust. San Francisco : Mercury House, 1994. |
Gies, Miep. Anne Frank remembered : the story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank family. New York : Simon and Schuster, c1987. |
Gilbert, Martin. Never again : the history of the Holocaust. New York : Universe, 2000. |
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“The Good old days”: the Holocaust as seen by its perpetrators and bystanders / edited by Ernst Klee, Willi Dressen, Voker Riess. New York : Free Press, 1991. |
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Greenfeld, Howard. After the Holocaust. New York : Greenwillow, 2001. |
The Holocaust Chronicle. Lincolnwood, IL : Publications International, Ltd, 2000. |
Learning about the Holocaust : a student's guide. Ronald M. Smelser, editor in chief. New York : Macmillan Reference, 2001. |
Leitner, Isabella. Fragments of Isabella : a memoir of Auschwitz. New York : Crowell, 1978. |
The Liberation of the Nazi concentration camps 1945 : eyewitness accounts of the liberators / edited by Brewster Chamberlin. Washington, D.C. : United States Holocaust Memorial Council, 1987. |
Lobel, Anita. No pretty pictures : a child of war. New York : Greenwillow Books, 1998. |
Meltzer, Milton. Never to forget: the Jews of the Holocaust. New York : Harper & Row, 1976. |
Meltzer, Milton. Rescue: the story of how gentiles saved Jews in the Holocaust. New York : Harper & Row, 1988. |
Neimark, Anne E. One man's valor : Leo Baeck and the Holocaust. New York : E.P. Dutton, 1986. |
Nomberg-Przytyk, Sara. Auschwitz : true tales from a grotesque land. Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 1985. |
The Pictorial history of the Holocaust / edited by Yitzhak Arad. Yad Vashem, The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Authority, Jerusalem. New York : Macmillan Pub., 1990. |
Roberts, Jack L. The Importance of Oskar Schindler. Farmington Hills, MI : Lucent Books, 1995. |
Rogasky, Barbara. Smoke and ashes : the story of the Holocaust. New York : Holiday House, 1988. |
Rol, Ruud van der. Anne Frank, beyond the diary : a photographic remembrance. New York : Viking, 1993. |
Rossel, Seymour. The Holocaust : the fire that raged. New York : F. Watts, 1989. |
Rossel, Seymour. The Holocaust : the world and the Jews, 1933-1945. West Orange, N.J. : Behrman House, 1992. |
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Steinfeldt, Irena. How was it humanly possible : A study of perpetrators and bystanders during the Holocaust. [Jerusalem] : Yad Vashem, International School for Holocaust Studies, 2002. |
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U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. Flight and rescue. Washington : The Museum, 2001. |
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. The world must know : the history of the Holocaust as told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Boston : Little, Brown, 1993. |
We are witnesses: five diaries of teenagers who died in the Holocaust / edited by Jacob Boas. New York : Henry Holt, 1995. |
We survived the Holocaust / edited by Elaine Landau. New York : F. Watts, 1991. |
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Weisel, Mindy. Daughters of absence : transforming a legacy of loss. Sterling, Va. : Capital Books, 2000. |
Wiesel, Elie. Night. New York : Bantam Books, 1982. |
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Wieviorka, Annette. Auschwitz explained to my child. New York : Marlowe & Co., 2002. |
Witnesses to the Holocaust : an oral history / edited by Rhoda G. Lewin. Boston : Twayne Publishers, 1990. |
Zapruder, Alexandra. Salvaged pages : young writers' diaries of the Holocaust. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2002. |
| Books |
Bolkosky, Sidney M. A Holocaust curriculum: a life unworthy of life: an 18-lesson instructional unit. Farmington Hills, Michigan : The Center for the Study of the Child, 1987. (includes videorecording) |
Brown, Cynthia Stokes. Connecting with the past. Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, 1994. |
Koren, Michael. Document-based activities on the Holocaust, 1939-1945. Culver City, CA : Social Studies School Service, 2002. |
Strom, Margot Stern. Facing history and ourselves: Holocaust and human behavior. Watertown, MA. : International Educations, Inc., 1982. |
Videorecordings |
America and the Holocaust deceit and indifference [videorecording]. Alexandria, VA : PBS Video, 1994. |
America at war the homefront [videorecording]. Portland, OR. : Columbia River Entertainment Group, 1998. |
Battlefield [videorecording]. New York : PolyGram Video, 1997. |
Camera of my family: four generations in Germany 1845-1945 [videorecording]. Culver City, CA : Zenger Video, 1991. |
Fat man and little boy [videorecording]. Hollywood, CA. : Paramount, 1990. |
The Greatest generation [videorecording]. Reported by Tom Brokaw. New York : NBC News, 1999. |
Holocaust on trial [videorecording]. Boston, MA. : WGBH Educational Foundation, 2001. |
Judgement at Nuremberg [videorecording]. New York : MGM/UA Home Video, 1989. |
Memory of the camps [videorecording]. Alexandria, Va. : PBS Video, 1989. |
Pearl Harbor [videorecording]. Burbank, CA : Touchstone Video, 2001. |
Remember September 11, 2001 [videorecording]. [S.l.] : Nine Elleven Productions, 2001. |
Saving Private Ryan [videorecording]. Universal City, CA. : Dreamworks Home Entertainment, 1999. |
Schindler's list [videorecording]. Universal City, CA. : MCA Universal Home Video, 1994. |
Victory at sea [videorecording]. Los Angeles, CA. : Embassy Home Entertainment, 1986. |
WWII [videorecording]. Bala Cynwyd, PA. : Schlessinger Video Productions, 1996. |
Additional resources |
American Memory historical collections and Learning Page support material from The Library of Congress. |
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