NORTH CAROLINA COUNCIL
ON THE
HOLOCAUST
NORTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION
www.ncpublicschools.org/holocaust-council/
____ONLINE TEACHER RESOURCES____
When viewing this list online, click the active links to access the websites.
▬ Asking the Right Questions
1. What is the Holocaust? Why the Jews?
— Definitions of Holocaust and Genocide (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, and handout)
-Holocaust:
www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005143
-Genocide:
www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007043
— Overview of the Holocaust: Topics to Teach (USHMM) www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007262
2. Who were the victims of the Holocaust?
— Victims
— Testimonies of survivor victims
— Testimonies of victims and perpetrators
Univ. of South Florida: www.fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/people/victims.htm
USC Shoah Foundation: sfi.usc.edu/full_length_testimonies
PBS: www.pbs.org/auschwitz/40-45/victims/
3. Why did the Holocaust happen? Why Germany and Hitler? (U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum/USHMM)
— Why did Germans vote for the Nazi Party?
www.ushmm.org/educators/lesson-plans/why-did-germans-vote-for-the-nazi-party
— Timeline Activity
www.ushmm.org/educators/lesson-plans/timeline-activity
4. Why was it allowed to happen?
USHMM: www.ushmm.org/educators/teaching-about-the-holocaust/why-teach-about-the-holocaust
5. How was it possible that such an advanced and democratic society collapsed into genocide?
USHMM: www.ushmm.org/educators/lesson-plans/why-did-germans-vote-for-the-nazi-party
6. What motivated the perpetrators and their collaborators?
PBS: www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/lessons_plans/the-holocaust-assessing-responsibility-and-conscience/
7. What motivated the bystanders and rescuers?
USHMM: www.ushmm.org/educators/lesson-plans/rethinking-perpetrators-bystanders-and-rescuers-overview-and-background
8. Why did the democratic nations of Europe and America fail to respond?
Yad Vashem (see “The World and the Holocaust”): www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/holocaust/resource_center/index.asp
▬ Common Questions about the Holocaust and Anti-Semitism
 The Holocaust (USHMM)
www.ushmm.org/educators/teaching-about-the-holocaust/common-questions
 Anti-Semitism (USHMM)
www.ushmm.org/educators/teaching-materials/materials-by-topic#antisemitism
 Confronting Anti-Semitism (Anti-Defamation League: ADL)
archive.adl.org/cas/cas_lesson.html
▬ Jewish Life in Europe before the Holocaust
 Jews in Prewar Germany (USHMM)
www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007687
 Lesson: Photo project on Jewish life before the Holocaust (USHMM)
www.ushmm.org/educators/lesson-plans/pre-wwii-european-jewish-life-photo-project
 Survivor interview & photo database (Centropa)
www.centropa.org/search-our-database-jewish-memory
 Video and lesson plan: Looking for Frieda, Finding Frieda (3:00), by Maxi Uri (Centropa)
www.centropa.org/teaching-materials/lesson-plan-centropa-film-max-uri-looking-frieda
 Lesson: The Web of Community: Jewish Life before the War (Facing History and Ourselves)
www.facinghistory.org/for-educators/educator-resources/lessons-and-units/web-community-jewish-life-war
 The Story of the Jews, five-part PBS series with Simon Schama (2014)
www.pbs.org/wnet/story-jews/
also being published in book form: www.shoppbs.org/product/index.jsp?productId=34574426
▬ The History of Anti-Semitism
 Video: European Antisemitism from Its Origins to the Holocaust, 13:44, with transcript (USHMM)
www.ushmm.org/confront-antisemitism/european-antisemitism-from-its-origins-to-the-holocaust
 Teaching Resources: Anti-Semitism (USHMM) www.ushmm.org/educators/teaching-materials/materials-by-topic#antisemitism
 Lesson: “How Do I Feel?”: Confronting Anti-Semitism (Anti-Defamation League: ADL) archive.adl.org/cas/cas_lesson.html
 “A Short History of Anti-Semitism,” Section 1 of The Holocaust: A North Carolina Teacher’s Resource (N.C. Council
on the Holocaust, on the website of WUNC-TV: Auschwitz: The North Carolina Connection)*
overview only: www.unctv.org/content/auschwitz/antisemitism
overview, lessons, and handouts: www.unctv.org/content/sites/default/files/Anti-Semitism_Module.pdf
 On the anti-Semitic publication Protocols of the Elders of Zion, Europe, 1903
— Holocaust Encyclopedia (USHMM)
www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007058
— Jewish Virtual Library
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/protocols.html
 On the Dreyfus Affair, France, 1894-1906 (Jewish Virtual Library) www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/anti-semitism/Dreyfus.html
▬ The Rise of Nazism: Why Germany, Why Hitler?
 The Holocaust: A North Carolina Teacher’s Resource (N.C. Council on the Holocaust): Sections 2 & 3
— “Hitler’s Rise”
overview: www.unctv.org/content/auschwitz/hitlersrise
overview, lessons, and handouts: www.unctv.org/content/sites/default/files/Hitlers_Rise_module.pdf
— “Prewar Nazi Germany” (incl. Kristallnacht)
overview: www.unctv.org/content/auschwitz/prewarnazi
overview, lessons, and handouts: www.unctv.org/content/sites/default/files/prewar_nazi_germany.pdf
 Video: “Aftermath of World War I and the Rise of Nazism, 1918-1933,” 11-min. section of The Path to Nazi Genocide
(38:32; free DVD available; USHMM)
www.ushmm.org/learn/introduction-to-the-holocaust/path-to-nazi-genocide
 Lesson: Exploring Nazi Propaganda and the Hitler Youth Movement (Facing History)
www.facinghistory.org/for-educators/educator-resources/lessons-and-units/exploring-nazi-propaganda-and-hitler-youth
 Nuremberg Laws of 1935
— “The Shame of Nuremberg,” Handout 3A in Section 3 in The Holocaust: A North Carolina Teacher’s Resource
(NCCH)
p. 17 in www.unctv.org/content/sites/default/files/prewar_nazi_germany.pdf
— Anti-Jewish Laws: survivor testimony (U. of So. Calif. Shoah Foundation)
iwitness.usc.edu/SFI/BrowseTopics.aspx
— The Reich Citizenship Law of 1935 (Jewish Virtual Library) www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/nurmlaw3.html
— Lesson: Anne Frank & the Nuremberg Laws (Utah Educ. Network) www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=1045
 The Nazi Ideology of Race
— “A Nazi Education,” in Section 6, Lesson 9, The Holocaust: A North Carolina Teacher’s Resource (NCCH)
pp. 22-29 in www.unctv.org/content/sites/default/files/bystanders.pdf
— Nazi Racial Ideology, Holocaust Encyclopedia (USHMM)
www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007457
— Forced Sterilization; Euthanasia Program (USHMM)
-Euthanasia Program, with survivor testimony
www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005200
-Murder of the Handicapped (T-4 Program)
www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007683
 Anschluss (Nazi annexation of Austria, March 1938)
— Anschluss: resources (USHMM)
www.ushmm.org/research/research-in-collections/search-the-collections/bibliography/anschluss
— Video: The Past Is Another Country (23:49); Leo Luster’s account of the Nazi takeover of Austria (Centropa)
www.centropa.org/centropa-cinema/leo-luster-die-vergangenheit-ist-ein-anderes-land
 Kristallnacht: “Night of Broken Glass,” Germany and Austria, November 9-10, 1938
— Survivor testimony: Edith Simon (Florida Holocaust Museum)† www.flholocaustmuseum.org/explore/testimonies/edith-simon/
— Remembering the Night of Broken Glass (Centropa)
november1938.centropa.org/home
 Attempts to Emigrate before and after Kristallnacht
— Survivor testimony on attempts to emigrate from Germany to the U.S. (Florida Holocaust Museum)†
www.flholocaustmuseum.org/exhibits/permanent/survivor-testimonials/arthur-meier-describes-his-familys-struggle-to-emigrate.aspx
— Documentation required for emigration from Germany (USHMM; in Teacher Packet)
www.ushmm.org/search/results/?q=documentation+required+for+Emigration+from+germany
 Beginning of World War II: Nazi Invasion of Poland, September 1, 1939
— Timeline: The Holocaust and World War II (USHMM) www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007653
▬ Isolation/Concentration/Ghettoization
 “Gizella in the Ghetto,” and “Anatoly,” handouts in Section 4: Lesson 4, The Holocaust: A North Carolina Teacher’s
Resource (N.C. Council on the Holocaust)
overview: www.unctv.org/content/holocaust
pp. 13-16 in www.unctv.org/content/sites/default/files/The_Holocaust_module.pdf
 Resources from Yad Vashem
— Lesson: Compassion within the Ghetto Walls
www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/lesson_plans/ghettos.asp
— Between the Worlds: Social Circles in the Theresienstadt Ghetto www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/learning_environments/terezin/
— Voices from the Inferno: Holocaust Survivors Describe the Last Months of the Warsaw Ghetto
www.yadvashem.org/YV/en/exhibitions/warsaw_ghetto_testimonies/index.asp
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Each section of the online Council guide—with overview, lessons, and handouts--is provided in pdf’s. The section overviews are also included in the html
sections of the website. Both urls are given in this resource list. (WUNC-TV graciously uploaded the Council’s resource guide in 2005.)
For resources from the Florida Holocaust Museum, clicking the url will redirect you to the home page, from which you can search for the specific page or
complete the url in the url line.
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 Ghettos: Teacher Resources (A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust, USF)
fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/ghettos2.htm
 Ghettos and Deportation, survivor testimonies (British Library) www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/voices/testimonies/ghettos/ghetto.html
▬ The Final Solution: The Total Eradication of European Jewry
 Entries in Holocaust Encyclopedia (USHMM)
— The Final Solution (Overview)
— The Final Solution (Origins)
— “Final Solution”
— Wannsee Conference and the Final Solution
— Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units)
www.ushmm.org/learn/holocaust-encyclopedia
www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005151
www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007704
www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007328
www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005477
www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005130
 The Final Solution (Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida)
— The Final Solution (lesson 3)
www.holocaustedu.org/pdf/Unit_Three_-_The_Final_Solution.pdf
— All Holocaust lesson plans
www.holocaustedu.org/education/classroom_resources/lesson_plans/
▬ The Camps
 Testimonies of Auschwitz survivors, and maps of Holocaust camps and casualties, Section 4: Lessons 5 & 6 of The
Holocaust: A North Carolina Teacher’s Resource (NCCH)
pp. 50-65 in pdf, pp. 43-61 in guide: www.unctv.org/content/sites/default/files/HolocaustGuide.pdf
 Resources from USHMM
— Life in the Camps: Personal Histories
www.ushmm.org/exhibition/personal-history/theme.php?th=camps
— Daily Life in the Concentration Camps
www.ushmm.org/research/research-in-collections/search-the-collections/bibliography/daily-life-in-the-concentration-camps
 Camps: Teacher Resources (A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust, USF)
fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/camps2.HTM
▬ Resistance
 “Resisters,” Section 5 in The Holocaust: A North Carolina Teacher’s Resource (NCCH)
overview: www.unctv.org/content/auschwitz/resisters
overview, lessons, and handouts: www.unctv.org/content/sites/default/files/resisters.pdf
 A Lesson on Resistance (in NCCH teacher workshop packet)
 Resistance: Teacher Resources (A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust, USF) fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/resist2.HTM
 Lesson: Individual Responsibility & Resistance during the Holocaust (USHMM)
www.ushmm.org/educators/lesson-plans/individual
 Lesson: Spiritual Resistance during the Holocaust: Maintaining a “Normal” Way of Life in an Abnormal World (Yad
Vashem)
www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/lesson_plans/spiritual_resistance.asp
 Lesson: Jewish Resistance (Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida)
www.holocaustedu.org/pdf/Unit_Four_-_Jewish_Resistance.pdf
 Lesson: Response to the Holocaust: Resistance and Rescue (Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center)
www.hhrecny.org/clientuploads/curriculum/HHREC_Holocaust_Curriculum_Lesson6.pdf
all lessons: www.hhrecny.org/index.php?submenu=testimony&src=gendocs&ref=DownloadCurriculum&category=testimony
▬ Perpetrators of the Holocaust
 Resources from USHMM
— Perpetrators, entry in Holocaust Encyclopedia
www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007424
— Some Were Neighbors (online exhibition)
somewereneighbors.ushmm.org/
 Perpetrators: Teacher Resources (A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust, USF)
fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/people/perps.htm
 Nazi Perpetrators (Jewish Virtual Library)
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/perpetratorstoc.html
 Victims & Perpetrators, in documentary Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (PBS) www.pbs.org/auschwitz/40-45/victims/
▬ Bystanders
 “Bystanders, Perpetrators, and Rescuers,” Section 6 in The Holocaust: A North Carolina Teacher’s Resource (NCCH)
overview: www.unctv.org/content/auschwitz/bystanders
overview, lessons, and handouts: www.unctv.org/content/sites/default/files/bystanders.pdf
 Bystanders: Resources (Yad Vashem)
www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/holocaust/resource_center/item.asp?gate=2-52
 Lesson: Rethinking Perpetrators, Bystanders, and Rescuers (USHMM)
www.ushmm.org/educators/lesson-plans/rethinking-perpetrators-bystanders-and-rescuers-overview-and-background
 Lesson: Bystanders and Upstanders (Facing History) www.facinghistory.org/sites/default/files/Decision-Making_Injustice_Lesson_15.pdf
from unit: Decision Making in Times of Injustice
www.facinghistory.org/for-educators/educator-resources/lessons-and-units/decision-making-times-injustice-unit
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▬ Rescuers
 Rescue, entry in Holocaust Encyclopedia (USHMM)
www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005185
 Rescuers: Teaching Resources (A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust, USF)
www.fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/people/rescuer.htm
 “Bystanders, Perpetrators, and Rescuers,” Section 6 in The Holocaust: A North Carolina Teacher’s Resource (NCCH)
overview: www.unctv.org/content/auschwitz/bystanders
overview, lessons, and handouts: www.unctv.org/content/sites/default/files/bystanders.pdf
 The Righteous among the Nations (Righteous Gentiles) (Yad Vashem) www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/righteous/index.asp
 Jewish Rescuers (Jewish Virtual Library) www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/judaica/ejud_0002_0009_0_09149.html
 The Role of Rescuers (Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota)
www.chgs.umn.edu/museum/exhibitions/rescuers/rescuerRole.html
▬ United States Response to the Holocaust
 The United States & the Holocaust, with video (USHMM)
 America’s Response to the Holocaust (PBS)
www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005182
www.pbs.org/jewishamericans/jewish_life/holocaust.html
▬ Lesson Plans
 North Carolina Council on the Holocaust: The Holocaust: A North Carolina Teacher’s Resource
NCDPI site: www.ncpublicschools.org/holocaust-council/guide/
WUNC-TV site: www.unctv.org/content/auschwitz/teachersguide
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
www.ushmm.org/educators/lesson-plans
Yad Vashem (lessons for different grade levels)
www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/lesson_plans/
Midwest Center for Holocaust Education Register (free) to access lesson plans.
mchekc.org/lesson-plans
Facing History and Ourselves
www.facinghistory.org/for-educators/educator-resources/lessons-and-units
Holocaust Memorial Resource and Education Center of Florida www.holocaustedu.org/education/classroom_resources/lesson_plans/
Holocaust and Human Rights Education Center (seven lessons)
www.hhrecny.org/index.php?submenu=testimony&src=gendocs&ref=DownloadCurriculum&category=testimony
 National Education Assn., lesson plans on survivor testimony (links to)
sfi.usc.edu/_OLD_SITE_2013/news/4134
 A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust, Florida Ctr. for Inst. Technology (Univ. of South Florida)
fcit.usf.edu/holocaust
Middle School Lessons: fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/activity/MiddleSc.htm High School Lessons: fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/activity/HighSchl.htm
Resources fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/resource.htm
Timeline with popup vocabulary fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/timeline/timeline.htm
▬ Survivor Testimonies and Oral Histories
 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
www.ushmm.org/remember/the-holocaust-survivors-and-victims-resource-center/survivors-and-victims/survivor-testimonies
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Yad Vashem (Holocaust Memorial, Israel)
www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/remembrance/multimedia.asp
Facing History, with lesson ideas
www.facinghistory.org/for-educators/educator-resources/resource-collections/survivor-testimony
Florida Ctr. for Instructional Technology (University of South Florida)
fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/people/survivor.htm
University of Southern California Shoah Foundation: iwitness program
iwitness.usc.edu/SFI/
Midwest Center for Holocaust Education
mchekc.org/survivor-testimonials/
Centropa: testimonies and resources of survivors currently living in
www.centropa.org
Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the former Soviet Union
Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivors Oral History Archive (University of Michigan)
holocaust.umd.umich.edu/
British Library
www.bl.uk/learning/histcitizen/voices/testimonies/survivors.html
NC HERO (UNC-Greensboro)
library.uncg.edu/dp/holocaust/
Center for Holocaust, Genocide, and Human Rights Education, testimonies of survivors living in North Carolina
www.holocaustspeakersbureau.org/film-project.html67
▬ Next Steps in Holocaust Education
 N.C. Center for the Advancement of Teaching (NCCAT)
www.nccat.org/programs/holocaust-education
 Appalachian State University, Summer Holocaust Symposium, July 11-17, 2015
holocaust.appstate.edu/events/2015-martin-doris-rosen-summer-symposium
 N.C. Holocaust Educators Network Summer Seminar, June 24-27, 2015, Raleigh Contact Karen Klaich at karenklaich@gmail.com
 U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, DC
—Teacher training online workshop
www.ushmm.org/educators/online-workshop
—Teacher Fellowship Program
www.ushmm.org/educators/professional-events-and-resources/museum-teacher-fellowship-program
 Echoes and Reflections
echoesandreflections.org/sign-up-for-training/
 Memorial Library (New York) Holocaust Educators Network Summer Seminar, Je. 20-Jy. 2, 2015
www.thememoriallibrary.org/sponsored-programs/summer-seminar/
 Yad Vashem (Israel), online courses
www.yadvashem.org/yv/en/education/courses/index.asp
 Centropa Summer Seminars (July 6-14, 2015, Poland)
seminars.centropa.org/ and csa2015.centropa.org/
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