Holocaust Remembrance Week: April 19-26, 2009
Anne Frank Museum
http://www.annefrank.org
Learn about the life of Anne Frank through the online collections of the
museum, including videos and photographs. This fascinating site also offers
educational resources for teaching about Anne Frank and the Holocaust.
Anti-Defamation
League: Holocaust
http://www.adl.org/main_Holocaust/default.htm
Read news and opinion articles, including the journal "Dimensions:
A Journal of Holocast Studies." Learn more about children of the
Holocaust and view their curriculum materials for educators.
Holocaust Survivors
http://www.holocaustsurvivors.org/
Explore first-person accounts of the Holocaust through oral histories, video
and photographs. The site also includes an encyclopedia, bibliography and
links for additional study. The project is based in Louisiana, so many of
the survivors were or are living in that area.
Holocaust Teacher Resource Center
http://www.holocaust-trc.org/
Book reviews, lesson plans and curricula, essays and publications help teach
kindergarteners through college students about the Holocaust.
The Nizkor Project
http://www.nizkor.org/
"The Nizkor Project is intended for educational purposes to teach
about the Holocaust and to combat hatred." The website also attempts
to counter those who deny the Holocaust happened. It has an extensive collection
of documents.
Remember.org
http://remember.org/
A "cybrary of the Holocaust," this site contains art, photographs,
audio, video and first-person accounts.
Simon Wiesenthal Center
http://www.wiesenthal.com/
"An international Jewish human rights organization dedicated to generating
change through the Snider Social Action Institute and education by confronting
antisemitism, hate and terrorism, promoting human rights and dignity, standing
with Israel, defending the safety of Jews worldwide, and teaching the lessons
of the Holocaust for future generations." Also part of the Center are
the Museum of Tolerance in Los
Angeles, New York and
Jerusalem; Moriah
Films, and iAct.
A Teacher's Guide
to the Holocaust
http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/default.htm
"The content of the A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust is presented
from three perspectives: Timeline, People, and The Arts. The Teacher's Guide
is meant to be used as a resource by teachers."
U.S. Holocaust Memorial
Museum
http://www.ushmm.org/remembrance/dor/
An impressive collection of online resources including essays, articles,
testimonials, photographs and videos aimed at educating people about the
Holocaust and other genocide around the world.
USC Shoah Foundation Institute
for Visual History and Education
http://college.usc.edu/vhi/
"Inspired by his experience making Schindlers List, Steven Spielberg
established the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation in 1994
to gather video testimonies from survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust..."
This foundation is now part of the University of Southern California and
contains "52,000 video testimonies in 32 languages, representing 56
countries; it is the largest archive of its kind in the world."