Educational Materials

Following educational resources are selected from several hundreds educational resources currently exist on the Internet. 

Museum of Tolerance Multi-media resource Center
http://motlc.wiesenthal.com/site/pp.asp?c=gvKVLcMVIuG&b=394659

The Holocaust: A Learning Site for Students: A site from United States Holocaust Museum: “Learning about the history of the Holocaust encourages you to reflect upon moral and ethical questions and upon your responsibilities as citizens of a democracy. Studying the history of the Holocaust can help you understand the effects of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping in any society while raising questions of fairness, justice, individual identity, peer pressure, conformity, indifference, and obedience. The Museum and its resources can enhance understanding of the Holocaust and related issues, including contemporary examples of genocide.”
http://www.ushmm.org/education/ and 
http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/tc.htm

Educational Resources:  From Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota.  This center is one of many national and international centers dedicated to the study of the Holocaust and contemporary Genocide and teaching about the subject. This site provide free and direct access and referrals to materials such as slides, film, video and audio tapes for use in Holocaust and genocide education. It also contains comprehensive Links for Teachers in the Realm of Holocaust and Genocide Studies and Curriculum Planning.
http://www.chgs.umn.edu/Educational_Resources/ educational_resources.html

Curriculum Units: From the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education:  This site include “Night”, “Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps”; “Nuremberg Trials” and several other comprehensive teaching units for educators.
http://www.mchekc.org/CurriculumUnits.htm

Curriculum Connections:  From Anti-defamation League (ADL) “is a collection of original lesson plans and resources that help K-12 educators integrate multicultural, anti-bias, and social justice themes into their curricula. Each edition is organized around a particular topic or theme, and a new edition is published three to four times per school year”.
http://www.adl.org/education/curriculum_connections/spring_2006/

Multimedia Resources from Holocaust Awareness and Remembrance^® Institute: ADL's Braun Holocaust Institute Include multimedia resources, guides and curriculum for all ages. “The Braun Holocaust Institute's programs for educators, students, community leaders, and families explore the enduring impact of the Holocaust and apply its lessons to contemporary issues of prejudice and moral decision making. Through these efforts, the Institute hopes to ensure that the Holocaust - and the brutality that humankind inflicted upon itself - is never forgotten”.
http://www.adl.org/education/edu_holocaust/default_holocaust.asp

A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust:  An overview of the people and events of the Holocaust through photographs, documents, art, music, movies, and literature
http://fcit.usf.edu/Holocaust/

Holocaust History by kids
http://library.thinkquest.org/12663/

Seminar on Hatred Against Jews: “This seminar will transform the way you view yourself, your people and your history”. Why the Jews?
http://www.aish.com/seminars/whythejews/

Holocaust Lesson Plan and Curricula: Lesson plans and curricula relating to Holocaust study are posted here. They are focused at elementary through college students. Some of the materials include posters, slides, and videos. Whenever possible the entire lesson plan is included and may be downloaded and used directly in the classroom. In other instances a sample from the lesson plan is presented.
http://www.holocaust-trc.org/lesson.htm

Holocaust and Genocide Education: Teaching Materials and Resources: This site from West Chester University --training teachers for over a century-- contains comprehensive teaching resources on genocide in the 20century.
http://www.wcupa.edu/_ACADEMICS/holocaust/teach.htm

Online Workshop:  Teaching about Holocaust: A guideline for teachers containing videos on class instruction;  from US Holocaust Museum:
http://www.ushmm.org/education/foreducators/ guidelines/index.utp?content=guide1.htm

The Holocaust from Beginning to End
A lesson plan for grades between 3-5, 6-8: 
http://www.education-world.com/a_lesson/00-2/lp2013.shtml

Cybrary: Resources for Teachers, Students and Researchers can be found at:  
http://www.remember.org/educate/

Educational Resources and Projects: Extensive general educational resources on Holocaust and other genocides:
http://ddickerson.igc.org/education.html