Auerbach Central Agency for Jewish Education

Holocaust Resources

Resources

 

• Age Appropriate Literature for Studying The Holocaust:
  A Selected Bibliography for Grades K - 12

 

• Building Blocks for Teaching the Holocaust - Pre-School - Grade 2

 

• Building Blocks for Teaching the Holocaust - Grades 3 - 5

 

• Children of the Holocaust

 

• Kristallnacht Resources

 

• Life and Resistance in the Ghetto

 

• Suggested Holocaust Education Resources (Bibliography, Videography, Webography) for Students and Teachers - Grades 7 - 12

 

• Teaching Tolerance

 

• Through the Eyes of Children: Testimony of War and Its Aftermath - Selected Media and Web Resources

 

• The Use of Oral History by Gloria Schwartz

 

• Voices of Children: Cultural Resistance and Response - Selected Web Resources

 

• When a Holocaust Survivor,Rescuer or Liberator Visits Your Classroom by Gloria Schwartz

 

Yom HaShoah Materials

• Historical Overview of Holocaust Commemoration

• Suggested Sources for Yom HaShoah Programming

• A Yom HaShoah Commemoration Focusing on the Theme of Resistance

• Yom HaShoah Programming Guidelines

 

     See Articles for additional Holocaust Education materials.

 

 

SELECTED HOLOCAUST EDUCATION DVD'S

For grades 7 and up

 

V-5011 - Unlikely Heroes - Seven unheralded stories of heroism of Jews who saved fellow Jews during the Holocaust. Includes the true story of a young Jew who donned the uniform of a major in the SS to save Hungarian Jews. 2 hours.

 

V-5012 - In Search of Peace - The creation of the state of Israel and its tumultuous first two decades, powerfully narrated by Michael Douglas. 1 hour, 45 minutes. Also available as V-1164.

 

V-5013 - Genocide - The story of the Holocaust, narrated by Elizabeth Taylor and Orson Welles. Academy Award winner, 1981. 1 hour, 30 minutes. Also available as V-0339.

 

V-5014 - Liberation - The Allies' liberation of the concentration camps and ultimate victory over the Nazis is brilliantly narrated by Sir Ben Kingsley, Miriam Margolyes, Patrick Stewart, Jean Boht and Whoopi Goldberg. 1 hour, 40 minutes.

 

V-5015 - The Long Way Home - The story of the DP camps and the struggle of Holocaust survivors to reach Palestine between 1945 -48, narrated by Morgan Freeman. Academy Award winner, 1997. 2 hours. Also available as V-0965.

 

V-5016 - Echoes that Remain - Life in the shtetl before the Holocaust, narrated by Martin Landau and Miriam Margolyes. 1 hour. Also available as V-0426.

 

V- 5058 - Protocols of Zion - Despite all the evidence, millions around the world blame the Jews for 9/11 - a modern incarnation of the infamous "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" - a century old forgery that claimed that Jews plan to rule the world.  Filmmaker Marc Levin set out on an explosive journey to understand and challenge one of the most persistent, insidious conspiracy theories of all time.  This version includes a "Protocols" timeline, an interview with the filmmaker and interviews. 1 hour, 35 minutes.

 

V-5059 - Paper Clips - Educational Version - Students in the Whitwell Middle School in Tennessee, a town with no Jews, began collecting paper clips to help them visualize the vast numbers of victims murdered by the Nazis, but ended up learning much more about how prejudice can escalate and how individual lives were changed forever by the Holocaust. They learned how the dedication and leadership of their teacher and principal and the work of a community can make the world a better place. The contents of this DVD include four curriculum lessons (three for junior and senior high school, 1 for high school); one study guide; one quiz; student hand-out materials; and an educator's guide. 1 hour, 30 minutes. 

 

 

Contact Information
Please feel free to contact Josey G. Fisher, the ACAJE Consultant for Holocaust Education at

Phone: (215) 635-8940, ext. 1230
E-mail: jfisher@acaje.org
Fax: (215) 635-8946

Artwork: "Arrival in Theresienstadt" 1942
Drawing by child artist Helga Weissova, 1929 -