| UNIT
| LESSON
| TYPE OF RESOURCE
| TITLE OF RESOURCE
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| I. Studying the Holocaust
| Building a Foundation for Studying the Holocaust
| Handouts
| Holocaust Definitions
|
Holocaust Definitions: Sorting it Out
| Genocide
| IWitness
Activity
| What Was the Holocaust?
| Prewar Jewish Life
| Handouts
| Profiles of Teenagers in Prewar Europe
| About Jews and Judaism
| Reflections on Teenagers in Prewar Europe
| Epilogues
| A Picture of Jewish Life in Europe Before WWII
| Maps
| Jewish Communities in Europe Before the Nazis Rise to Power
| IWitness Activity
| What was Jewish life like before the Holocaust?
| | II. Antisemitism
| Antisemitism Before the Holocaust
| Handouts
| Defining Stereotypes
|
Definition of Antisemitism
| Summary of Antisemitism
| Timeline of Antisemitism
| IWitness Activity
| What is Antisemitism?
| Nazi Antisemitic Ideology and
Propaganda
| Handouts
| How are Ideology and Propaganda Related?
| Jewish Communities Map Analysis
| Nazi Ideology
| Summary of Antisemitism
| Nazi Propaganda Examples
| Nazi Propaganda Analysis
| Maps
| Jewish Communities in Europe Before the Nazis Rise to Power
| IWitness Activity
| How Did Propaganda Fuel the Holocaust?
| | III. Nazi Germany
| The Weimar Republic and Rise of the Nazi Party
| Handouts
| What Rights are Most Important to Me?
|
Evaluating Rights T-chart
| The Weimar Republic and the Rise of the Nazi Party
| The Weimar Republic and the Rise of the Nazi Party Graphic Organizer
| Maps
| Europe Before 1919 and the Treaty of Versailles
| Europe After 1919 and the Treaty of Versailles
| IWitness Activity
| Democracy Crumbled? Why Was German Society Vulnerable to the Rise of Nazism?
| Anti-Jewish Policy in 1930s Germany
| Handouts
| Nazi Germany and Anti-Jewish Policy
| Anti-Jewish Signs in Germany
| Examples of Anti-Jewish Policy in Nazi Germany, 1933-1938
| Hitlerjugend
| Concentration Camps
| Hitler’s Reichstag Speech
| The Kristallnacht Pogrom – “Night of Broken Glass”
| Handouts
| See-Think-Wonder
| The Kristallnacht Pogrom
| Heydrich’s Instructions, November 1938
| | III. Nazi Germany (continued)
| The Kristallnacht Pogrom – “Night of Broken Glass” (continued)
| Handouts
| Letter by Margarete Drexler to the Gestapo
|
Description of the Riot in Dinslaken
| Document Analysis
| Images
| Frankfurt, Germany, Burning of the Boemestrasse Synagogue, Kristallnacht¸ November 1938
| Magdeburg, Germany, November 10, 1938
| Siegen, Germany, November 10, 1938
| IWitness Activity
| Info Quest: Kurt Messerschmidt
| Info Quest: Kristallnacht
| A Model for the Escalation of Hate
| Handouts
| Pyramid of Hate
| Understanding Terms in the Pyramid of Hate
| Nazi Germany and Anti-Jewish Policy
| They Came For
| IWitness Activity
| How Does Hate Escalate? An Examination of the Past & Present
| | IV. The Ghettos
| Establishment of the Ghettos and the Jewish Response
| Handouts
| See-Think-Wonder
|
The Ghettos
| Diary Entry from the Lodz Ghetto
| Images
| Jews Crossing the Bridge in the Lodz Ghetto
| Lodz Ghetto, 1941
| IWitness Activity
| Info Quest: Ellis Lewin
| Maps
| Ghettos in Europe
| Role of the Ghettos – The Lodz Ghetto as a Case Study
| Handouts
| The Lodz Ghetto
| Excerpts from the Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak
| Poem by an Unknown Girl
| Poem by Avraham Koplowicz
| IWitness Activity
| What was life like in the Łódź Ghetto?
| Making Connections
| Handouts
| Monopoly Game
| The Butterfly
| | V. The “Final Solution”
| How the “Final Solution” was Made Possible and Implemented
| Handouts
| How Should We Study the Final Solution?
|
The One
| Excerpt from Night
| The “Final Solution”
| See-Think-Wonder
| IWitness Activity
| What was Auschwitz-Birkenau?
| Images
| Auschwitz Album
| IWitness Activity
| Einsatzgruppen: The Firing Squads of the Holocaust
| Maps
| Major Nazi Camps in Europe, 1944
| Spiritual Resistance: Attempting to Preserve Humanity in the Face of Inhumanity
| Handouts
| Interview with Franz Stangl
| Excerpt from Survival in Auschwitz
| Poems from a Camp Survivor
| Life in the Shadow of Death
| Excerpt from Man’s Search for Meaning
| Images
| Appell, 1944
| IWitness Activity
| Found Poetry: A Language Arts Lesson
| Making Connections
| Handouts
| Pyramid of Hate
| | VI. Liberation
| Liberation of the Nazi Camps
| Handouts
| Liberator Reflections
|
Letter from Eisenhower to Marshall, April 15, 1945
| Testimony Reflections
| IWitness Activity
| How Did Liberation Impact the Liberators?
| IWitness Activity
| Info Quest: Howard Cwick
| Holocaust Survivors Return to Life
| Handouts
| Haim Kuznitsky after Liberation
| Artifact Analysis
| Artifacts Related to Liberation
| First Letters After Liberation
| Survivors’ Return to Life
| My Life Started from the End
| Children Alone
| IWitness Activity
| New Beginnings – Journey to America
| Displaced Persons’ Camps After the Holocaust
| Handouts
| Displaced Persons
| Displaced Persons’ Camp Images
| DP Camp Images – Explanation
| IWitness Activity
| Understanding Displaced Persons’ Camps
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| VII. Jewish Resistance
| What is Resistance?
| Handouts
| Testimony Reflections
|
Jewish Resistance
| Pronouncement by Abba Kovner
| Cultural and Spiritual Resistance
| IWitness Activity
| How did Jews resist?
| Case Study – Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto
| Handouts
| The Warsaw Ghetto
| Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto
| Armed Resistance in the Ghettos and Camps
| Warsaw Ghetto Stations
| Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto
| A Chain of Resistance
| Independent Research on Resistance
| Handouts
| Artifacts of Resistance
| Research Topics and Sources
| Artifact Reflection
| | VIII. Rescue and Righteous Among the Nations
| The Decision to Rescue
| Handouts
| Case Studies of Rescuers and Liberators
|
Those Who Dared to Rescue
| Anne Frank’s Legacy
| The Girl in the Green Sweater
| IWitness Activity
| Oskar Schindler: A Flawed Hero
| Groups that Rescued
| Handouts
| We Share the Same Sky Excerpts
| Quotes: Danish Rescue and Resistance1
| Rescue in Denmark
| Background: Kindertransport
| Lord Baldwin’s Appeal, Great Britain, 1938
| Letter to the Editor, Arizona Republic, 1939
| Postcards from a Father
| Letters from a Mother
| IWitness Activity
| The Kindertransport: History and Individual Experiences (Grades 6-8)
| Kindertransport: “From the mother who will never forget you” (Grades 9-10)
| Podcast
| We Share the Same Sky
| IWitness Activity
| Why Did Some Choose Rescue?
| Righteous Among the Nations
| Handouts
| Yad Vashem Criteria for “Righteous Among the Nations”
| Budapest: Historical Background
| A Swedish Rescuer in Budapest
| IWitness Activity
| Righteous Among the Nations
| Making Connections
| Handouts
| Holocaust 1944
| When It Happened
| | IX. Complicity and Responsibility
| Bystanders
| Handouts
| Testimony Reflections
|
Excerpts from Ponary
| Bystanders in Photos
| Photographic Case Study Graphic Organizer
| Collaborators and Perpetrators
| Handouts
| Report by Salitter and Memoir of Hilde Sherman
| Salitter and Sherman Graphic Organizer
| Testimony Reflections
| Profiting from Hatred
| Letters from Karl Kretschmer to His Family
| The Role of the US and Responsibility of Nations
| Handouts
| The Otto Frank Letter
| The Refugee
| Evian Conference
| Bermuda Conference
| Refugee Blues
| IWitness Activity
| Voyage of the St. Louis: From Hope to Despair
| What Did Americans Know About the Holocaust?
| Making Connections
| Handouts
| A Night at the Garden
| | X. Justice, Life and Memory After the Holocaust
| War Crimes Trials
| Handouts
| War Crimes Trials
|
Testimony Reflections
| Rudolf Hoess
| Draft of a Reparations Agreement
| Living with the Memory of the Holocaust
| Handouts
| Adolf Eichmann
| Understanding Trauma
| Artwork of Holocaust Survivors
| See-Think-Wonder
| Studies of Human Behavior Inspired by the Holocaust
| IWitness Activity
| The Rights of Children
| The Memorialization of the Holocaust
| Handouts
| Holocaust Memorials in Europe
| IWitness Activity
| Why Do We remember?
| Making Connections
| Handouts
| Farewell Letters
| | XI. Gringlas Unit on Antisemitism After the Holocaust
| Rebuilding Jewish Life after the Holocaust
| Handouts
| Who are the Jewish People?
|
Brief History of Israel
| About Jews and Judaism
| Jewish Migration and Antisemitism after the Holocaust
| The Perseverance of Jewish Life
| Readings about Eastern Europe
| Readings about Israel
| Readings about USA
| Maps
| Map of Jewish Populations
| XI. Gringlas Unit on Antisemitism After the Holocaust
(continued)
| What is Antisemitism and What are Features of Antisemitism Today?
| Handouts
| Antisemitism
|
Features of Antisemitism
| The Through Lines of Antisemitism
| Antisemitism Over Time
| Antisemitic Words and Images
| What are Some of the Forces that Drive Antisemitism Today?
| Handouts
| Tree of Life Synagogue Attack Word Cloud
| The History of White Supremacist Groups in America
| Brief History of Israel
| The Through Lines of Antisemitism
| Antisemitism That Finds Common Cause With the Extreme Left
| Modern Examples of Antisemitism That Find Common Cause with the Extreme Left
| Holocaust Denial, Distortion, Trivialization and Inversion
| Action and Agency – Combating Antisemitism
| Handouts
| Miep Gies Quotes
| Profiles of Young Advocates
| Action Planning
| Taking Action: Scenarios for Discussion
| Group Action Project
| Making Connections
| Handouts
| The Scope and Scale of Antisemitism
| | XII. Teaching About Genocide
| What is the Crime of Genocide?
| Handouts
| Learn and Confirm Chart
|
Axis Rule in Occupied Europe
| Genocide
| Armenia
| Holocaust
| Cambodia
| Rwanda
| When Evil-Doing Comes Like Falling Rain
| IWitness Activity
| Dimensions in Testimony – Ben Ferencz
| What is Genocide?
| What do Genocides Destroy?
| Handouts
| Life Before Genocide Graphic Organizer
| Life Before Genocide
| Testimony Reflections
| Yellow, 1962-2006
| How do Genocides Destroy?
| Handouts
| Dangerous Policies of Genocidal Regimes
| Testimony Reflections
| Photographic Case Study Graphic Organizer
| The Conflagration in Photos
| Humanity in Artifacts
| Artifact Reflection
| IWitness Activity
| Using Media Literacy Skills to Examine the Holocaust
| Aftermath
| Handouts
| Memorials and Museums of Genocide
| Memorials and Museums of Genocide
| Making Connections
| Handouts
| Official Government Correspondences
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