Holocaust Resources
Resources
SUGGESTED SOURCES
FOR
YOM HASHOAH PROGRAMMING
Compiled by Josey G. Fisher,
Consultant for Holocaust Education
I. Websites
II. Text Resources
III. Stories to Read Aloud
I.
Websites
Ceremonies:
Lesson Plans:
ADL : Survival to Service: Examining the Life of Abe Foxman, Hidden Child
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: "Do Not Stand Silent: Remembering Kristallnacht 1938"
- Designed for Yom HaShoah or Days of Remembrance (April 27 - May 4, 2008)
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Past "Days of Remembrance" Ceremonies
Yad Vashem Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names: Lesson Plans for High School and Middle School
Readings:
Yad Vashem - Lists of Victims for Name - Reading Ceremonies
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum - Oral Testimony Excerpts
II.
Text Resources
Final Letters from Victims of the Holocaust . Selected by Reuven Dafni and Yehudit Kleiman from Yad Vashem Archives. NY: Paragon House Publishers, 1991.
Junior High School - Adult.
Holocaust Poetry. Edited by Hilda Schiff. New York, NY: St. Martin's Griffin, 1995.
High School – Adult.
. . . I Never Saw Another Butterfly . . . Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944 by Hana Volakova.
New York, NY: Schocken Books, 1993.
Grades 3+.
Liturgies on the Holocaust: An Interfaith Anthology. Edited by Marcia Sachs Littell. Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 1986.
High School – Adult.
Voices and Visions: A Collection of Primary Sources. Compiled by Dr. William L. Shulman. Woodbridge, CT: Blackbirch Press, 1998.
Junior High School - Adult.
Voices of the Holocaust edited by Julie A. Schumacher, Terry Ofner, et al. Logan, Iowa: Perfection Learning Corporation, 2000.
Junior High School - Adult.
Yesterdays and then Tomorrows: Holocaust Anthology of Testimonies and Readings. Compiled by Safira Rapoport. Yad Vashem, Jersualem: The International School for Holocaust Studies, 2002.
High School – Adult.
III.
Stories to Read Aloud
The Butterfly by Patricia Polacco. New York, NY: Philomel Books, 2000.
Grades 4+
Cats in Krasinski Square by Karen Hess. New York, NY: Scholastic Press, 2004.
Grades 3+
The Lily Cupboard by Shulamith Levey Oppenheim. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1992.
Grades 3+
Who was the Woman Who Wore the Hat? by Nancy Patz. New York, NY: Dutton Books, 2003.
Grades 6+
Updated 2008
Feel free to contact Josey G. Fisher, ACAJE Consultant for Holocaust Education at:
E-mail: jfisher@acaje.org
Phone: 215.635.8940, ext. 1230
Fax: 215.635.8946
Artwork: "Arrival in Theresienstadt" 1942
Drawing by child artist Helga Weissova, 1929 -
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