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Resources for Holocaust Education

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Images, exhibits, war crimes-trial testimony, artworks, and much more.

Yad Vashem
Israel-based Holocaust learning and remembrance site, maintained by one of the world's leading Holocaust-resources organizations.

The Holocaust Chronicle
Comprehensive on-line archive of the history of the Holocaust.

Nitzkor Project
Vast database dedicated to the Holocaust.

Center for Holocaust, Genocide and Peace Studies 
Includes a photo archive, essays on relevant current affairs, brief summaries of events sponsored by the Center, and important historical essays.

Simon Wiesenthal Center
A 400,000 member strong international center for Holocaust remembrance, the defense of human rights and the Jewish people.

Holocaust History Project 
Archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and essays

Anti Defamation League 
Sources, news, activities, and archives dedicated to combating hate, discrimination &   prejudice

Virtual Shtetl
Offers vast resources on Eastern European Jewish community life

Spielberg's Shoah Video Foundation
Information about the world's largest digitized Holocaust survivor video repository.

Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
Archive of Holocaust testimonies. Excerpts available for download.

Holocaust Literature Research Institute
Survivor memoirs and a photo "slide show" of Auschwitz and Auschwitz-Birkenau.  A publications-review page and bibliography are under construction.

C.A.N.D.L.E.S. 
Basic, wide-ranging site including modest selection of lesson plans for teachers and a handful of student essays

Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies  
Useful Holocaust site for Canadians, with memoirs of survivors now living in Canada. Also: Canadian-survivor news; new-book notes; and links to other Holocaust-related sites.

Beit Theresienstadt 
Devoted to the Nazi camp (also known as Theresienstadt). Offers English-language links to the Jerusalem Post, CNN, Time Worldwide, et al.

Holocaust Memorial Center
Detroit-area resource with information about teachers' seminars; speakers bureau; and trips to Israel and Europe. Also: book reviews and an online bookstore.

Holocaust Museum Houston 
Offers detailed descriptions of exhibitions, plus teacher aids and curricula; answers to frequently asked questions about the Holocaust; calendar of events.

Southern Poverty Law Center
Organization that combats hate and discrimination through education.

 

The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the University of Minnesota
Study of the Holocaust and other genocides. Includes educational resources, a virtual museum and other materials about the Holocaust.

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum
Information about the history and present state of the Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps.

The Holocaust Resource Center of Buffalo
General information on the Holocaust, as well as the written testimony of nineteen Holocaust Survivors who live in Western New York. Oral testimony videotapes and written biographies are available for classroom use.

The Holocaust: A Tragic Legacy
Holocaust overview site.

Anne Frank Online
Site of the Anne Frank Center USA.  Includes rare Frank family photos.

Holocaust Survivors
Essays, audio, survivor stories, discussion groups, photo gallery, and encyclopedia.

Women and the Holocaust
Historical/philosophical overview; oral histories of survivors and descendants of survivors; biographical sketches of notable women.

The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous
Stories of Holocaust rescues of Jews by non-Jews. The Foundation is preparing to launch an ambitious teacher-education program about the Holocaust and, more specifically, rescuers.

United States Holocaust Museum Educational Resources
Extensive web site providing a variety of resources designed for use by teachers and students.

Simon Wiesenthal Multimedia Center at the Museum of Tolerance

Holocaust & Human Rights Center of Maine
Directed to educators, K-8, with available essays and publications, which can be read online.

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
Vast database of multimedia resources and activities for teaching the Holocaust.

Holocaust Outreach Center
Florida resource with useful information about teacher training; curricula (K-12); Florida Holocaust events.

Holocaust Teacher Resource Center
Useful Holocaust-related lesson plans and curricula for teachers, K-college.  Lesson plans relate not just to books and papers, but to images, poetry, theater, and oral histories. Also: bibliography and videography.

Facing History and Ourselves
Facing History and Ourselves is a national educational and professional development organization whose mission is to engage students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and anti-Semitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry.

Museum of Tolerance Online
Easy to use multimedia learning center with teacher resources, photos and large bibliography.

Holocaust Resources:

University of Pennsylvania Professor Al Filreis' page that collects a vast array of resources on the Holocaust.

 

Special Holocaust Resources

Nazi Gold
PBS video and web site on Nazi Gold.

Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace
PBS video and educational web site on the life and struggles of Dietrich Boenhoffer.

Japanese Children in the Camps
PBS video and educational web site captures the experiences of six Americans of Japanese ancestry who were confined as innocent children to internment camps by the U.S. government during World War II.

Resources about Holocaust Deniers

Anti Defamation League
Resources devoted to combating the activity of Holocaust deniers.

Institute for Historical Review 
Active disseminator of anti-Holocaust materials.

Arthur Butz
Home page of an active Holocaust revisionist.

David Irving
Home page of an active Holocaust denier.

The Zundelsite

Committee for Open Debate on the Holocaust

Holocaust Bibliographies

Children's Books about the Holocaust

Holocaust Audio-Visual Catalogue

Guide to Videos about Prejudice and Discrimination

A Cybrary of the Holocaust