Holocaust Research, Education, and Remembrance Online: Education

International and multidisciplinary authors share a free online textbook for Holocaust educators and students. Chapters consider the Holocaust and genocide from many perspectives, including the Arts and Humanities.

This three lesson mini-unit brings in voices from the intersecting histories of the Holocaust and wartime North Africa, illuminating perspectives that are often left out of Holocaust and WWII curricula.

Survivor oral histories have helped determine research questions in Holocaust studies and propelled the field’s largest archival efforts. With those storytellers now passing at an ever-quickening pace, however, some oral historians are turning to descendants as the faces of memory... This article describes the results of the class “Holocaust Legacies and Oral History. in terms of pedagogies, successes, areas for improvement, and connections created between classroom and community.

The Curator of the Dorot Jewish Division, Dr. Lyudmila Sholokhova, interviews Prof. Meri-Jane Rochelson about the oral history of her father, Eli G. Rochelson, part of the American Jewish Committee's Oral History Collection at NYPL.

The following collection is designed to provide teachers with rich and meaningful resources on the Holocaust, engaging lesson plans and information to help students take steps to move forward without forgetting the past.

Recorded presentations, films, and guidelines for teaching various age groups.

Deepens knowledge and understanding of the genocide and powerfully explores its contemporary significance through research-based classroom materials for Holocaust education.

Through its Holocaust education programs and resources, educators gain the skills, knowledge, and confidence to teach this topic effectively.

Uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate.

Teaching about the Holocaust can inspire students to think critically about the past and their own roles and responsibilities today. Use the resources here to help develop your approach and to find lesson plans to use in your classroom.

Compilation of online educational resources for teachers.

The museum offers lesson plans for teaching the Holocaust, genocides, and social cruelty across history, created by the Education Department as well as teachers who work in partnership with the Education Team at the Museum

Teaches the history of the Holocaust and preserves the legacy of Righteous Gentiles, non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. JFR does this through its Holocaust teacher education program.

Foundations of Resistance utilizes the history and life lessons of the Jewish partisans of World War II to teach students why and how to resist antisemitism.

Engage students with immersive resources, interactive workshops, and thought-provoking activities designed to promote understanding and remembrance of this essential chapter in history.

Lesson plans, New York Times resources, and websites for teaching and learning about the Holocaust.

The Holocaust can be a complex and difficult topic to teach: it must be fact-based and encourage critical thinking in students. We develop tools around educationally sound approaches to teaching about the Holocaust, for both teachers at school and education professionals developing their own teaching programs.

Overview of the Holocaust through photographs, documents, arts, music, movies, and literature.

Antisemitism is most frequently associated with the Holocaust. However, this hatred did not originate with the Nazis. This lesson will help teachers and students understand where antisemitism came from and how it has evolved over time.

Teacher resources including guidelines, lesson plans, activities and video excerpts of testimony.