Auerbach Central Agency for Jewish Education

Holocaust Resources

Online Resources

Selected Holocaust Education Sites

Prepared by Josey G. Fisher, Holocaust Education Consultant

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. Dimensions : Online Journal of Holocaust Studies.

Calvin College German Propaganda Archive: http://www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/gpa/

Primary sources including posters, illustrations, children's book excerpts, speeches, cartoons, and photographs.

Cybrary of the Holocaust: http://www.remember.org
Holocaust research and resources, 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 resources, study guides, lesson units, extensive annotated links. Professional development programs and online courses.

Ghetto Fighters' Museum: http://gfh.org.il/eng/

Archive of photographs, art, documents from Israeli museum of the Holocaust and Jewish resistance. Detailed site on Janusz Korczak. Summer study opportunities.

Holocaust Chronicle: www.holocaustchronicle.org

Online version of the hard-cover book of the same name. History and over 1800 images, organized by timeline and subject. Accessible by direct link to chapter or through search engine.

Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation: http://jewishpartisans.org/

Lesson plans, maps, documentary footage, first-person accounts, resources.

Jewish Virtual Library – The Holocaust

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/holo.html

Primary source documents and visuals, maps and historical articles.

Museum of Tolerance -- Simon Wiesenthal Center : http://www.motlc.wiesenthal.com

Multimedia learning center; primary source documents, memoirs and photographs; teacher resources; virtual exhibits.

The Nizkor Project: http://nizkor.org/

Nuremberg Trial records; extensive archive of documents and interviews regarding camps and perpetrators; Holocaust denial.

PBS: http://w w w. p bs.org /

Under “Holocaust”, links include "The American Experience: America and the Holocaust, Deceit and Indifference”, “The American Experience: The Nuremberg Trials”, “ Auschwitz : Inside the Nazi State”, “Daring to Resist: Three Women Face the Holocaust;" “Elie Wiesel: First Person Singular”, NOVA: Holocaust on Trial”,"Frontline: Shtetl;" "People's Century: Master Race;" featuring teacher's guides, timelines, supplemental interviews and documents.

Pennsylvania Holocaust Education Council: http://www.PHEC.org

Educational opportunities for PA teachers, online newsletter, links to Holocaust resource centers, Clara H. Isaacman Memorial Trunk program.

Remembrance and Beyond – The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme:

http://w w w.un.org/holocaustremembrance/

“Electronic Notes for Speakers”, first-person testimony, and primary documents to aid educators and UN Member States in developing educational programming. Cooperative project of UN,

Yad Vashem, Memorial de la Shoah in Paris and USC Shoah Foundation .

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust -- Florida Center for Instructional Technology:

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
Interactive site including Holocaust encyclopedia, maps, online exhibits; primary source archives with personal testimony film, documents, photographs, artifacts. Teaching guides and resources, professional development opportunities and online workshop. Committee on Conscience, including Genocide Watch. Audio and podcast programming.

Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs and Heroes Remembrance Authority: http://yadvashem.org.il
Comprehensive database of primary sources including photographs, art, documents, maps, artifacts, diaries, testimonies; research articles; video testimonies; audio and podcast lectures; online exhibits; Shoah Victims' Database; Righteous Among the Nations. Professional development programs and online courses. Commemoration programs and lesson plans.

“Echoes and Reflections” Multimedia Curriculum (ADL, Yad Vashem, USC Shoah Foundation) Student/Teacher Resource

Center: http://www1.yadvashem.org/education/adl/index.htm

Suggested Online Newsletters

Anti-Defamation League :

http://www.adl.org/ -- Click on “Subscribe” to receive online ADL newsletter. http://www.adl.org/education/curriculum_connections/ -- Click on “Subscribe to

Curriculum Connections.”

Jewish Foundation for the Righteous:

http://www.jfr.org/site/PageServer -- Click on “Join our e-COMMUNITY today.”

Southern Poverty Law Center – Teaching Tolerance e-Newsletter: http://www.tolerance.org/teach/newsletter/index.jsp - Click for registration form.

USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education:

http://www.usc.edu/schools/college/vhi/ – Click “Subscribe” at bottom of page for “Visual History Online Email Bulletin.”

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum : http://www.ushmm.org/