Online resources by grade and subject
This resource list is made available thanks to a grant from the Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford
Subject of Study: Overview of the Holocaust
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- 1938: Key Dates, timeline
- Holocaust History PowerPoint, 62 slide overview
- Introduction to the Holocaust, webpage text.
- Introduction to the Holocaust: Animated Map, in 2 minute video
- The Path to Nazi Genocide, 38 minute film
- Some Were Neighbors Exhibit, interactive photos
- Third Reich: An Overview, webpage text. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Why We Remember the Holocaust, 9 minute video. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
- Confront Genocide: Cases of Genocide
- Ripples of Genocide: Journey Through Eastern Congo
Yad Vashem – The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
- The Holocaust, home page
- Teaching the Holocaust Using Photographs, 3 minute video
Facing History and Ourselves
- Step By Step: Phases of the Holocaust, 7 minute video
- Genocide and Mass Violence
- The Aftermath Project:War is Only Half the Story
UNESCO
- The United Nations and the Holocaust Outreach Programme, free educational materials
- Office of Security and Co-operation in Europe, Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, Countering anti-Semitism and promoting Holocaust remembrance website (includes link to Hate-crime reporting site, and youth activism)
Museum of Tolerance
Echoes and Reflections
Anne Frank Center USA
Jewish Virtual Library: Holocaust
- The Holocaust Wing
- Yale University Library Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies
- University of Michigan: Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive
NYU Libraries
Brown University Choices Program
- Confronting Genocide: Never Again? How Should the United States respond to genocide?, readings, videos and lessons
The Upstander Project
- Coexist Learning Resources, 13 minute documentary First Light, about the Wabanaki people in Maine and forthcoming Dawnland coming out in spring 2018,
- First Light Learning Resources, including primary and secondary sources, film transcript
Subject of Study: Human Rights
- Human Rights Educators, USA, Genocide, forum for teachers to promote human rights education
United Nations and International Bodies
- Global Citizenship Education (UNESCO), resource for teachers
- The United Nations Outreach Programme on the Rwanda Genocide and the United Nation
- United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect, news and key events
Subject of Study: Refugees
Facing History and Ourselves
- Finding Safety in Italy: Esther Bem, 6 minute video
- I’m Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust
- Eliz Kaufmann describes mass exodus from Paris
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- German Jewish Refugees, 1933–1939, website
- Oral History: Ruth Berkowicz Segal, 1 minute video
- Oral History: Elizabeth Kaufmann Koenig, 2 minute video
- Oral History: Leo Melamed, 1 minute video
- Oral History: Sophie Turner-Zaretsky, 2 minute video
- Oral History: Gerda Blachmann Wilchfort, 3 minute video
Subject of Study: Refugees Today
- The Flight of Refugees Around the World, maps
- The European Refugee Crisis and Syria Explained, 6 minute video
- Syria’s Lost Generation, 7 minute video, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Teaching About the Syrian Refugee Crisis, focus on social action
- United Nations, Refugees, text and 4 minute video
- BBC News, Migrant Crisis to Europe Explained in Seven Charts
- The Plight of the Rohingya, text and photographs
- Understanding the Global Refugee Crisis, three lesson plans with videos and readings
Subject of Study: Kindertransport
Facing History
- Preparing for the Kindertransport: Vera Gissing, 7 minute video
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Overview Kindertransport, 1938-40, text
- Nicholas Winton and the Rescue of Children from Czechoslovakia, text
- Oral History-Kindertransport, 1938-1940 – ID Card/Oral History: Norbert Wollheim and Alice Masters, short videos
Hartford Resident Ivan Backer on His Experience on the Kindertransport
Subject of Study: Kristallnacht
Facing History
- Kristallnacht: the 1938 Pogroms, 10 minute video
- Kristallnacht: The Range of Choices, lesson with five readings
- Jews Are Ordered to Leave Munich, New York Times, November 10, 1938
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Kristallnacht: The November 1938 Pogroms, text and two 6 minute videos
- Oral History-Kristallnacht – ID Card/Oral History: Norbert Wollheim and Alice Masters, short videos Oral History
- Oral History: Hanne Hirsch Liebmann
Yad Vashem
- ’It Came From Within’: Digital Exhibition Marking the Events of Kristallnacht, photographs, pages of testimony, 6 videos
News Article from Hartford Courant
- Mobs Burn and Loot as Anti-Jewish Wave Sweeps Nazi Germany, Hartford Courant, November 11, 1938
Subject of Study: Upstanders and Rescue
Facing History and Ourselves
- Defying the Nazis: The Sharps’ War, teaching website on PBS movie
- The Holocaust: Bystanders and Upstanders, two 50 minute class lessons
- Le Chambon: A Village Takes a Stand, reading and lesson
- Upstanders and Bystanders during the Holocaust, 10 readings
- Weapons of the Spirit, 35 minute video about Le Chambon
Yad Vashem – The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
- The Righteous Among The Nations, website
- Teaching about the Righteous Among the Nations in the Classroom: non-Jewish rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Rescue-Animated Map, short video
- Rescue: Oral History: Agnes Mandl Adachi, 2 minute video
- Rescue: Oral History: Preben Munch-Nielsen, 1 minute video
- Rescue and Resistance Oral History: Hanne Hirsch Liebmann on Le Chambon, 2 minute video
- Rescue, text from Holocaust Encyclopedia
- Defying Genocide: Simone Weil Lipman and Damas Gisimba, 19 minute video
Subject of Study: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Facing History
- The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, reading with questions
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Ghettos
- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, reading
Yad Vashem
- Using the Study Unit ‘Everyday Life in the Warsaw Ghetto – 1941’ in the Classroom, 7 part video for teachers
- Voices from the Inferno: Holocaust Survivors Describe the Last Months in the Warsaw Ghetto, 10 short videos, 4-6 minutes
Connecticut Survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
- Ferguson, Van-Alden, 50th Anniversary Marked of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Hartford Courant, 4/19/1993, Helen Kopman, Manchester resident interviewed
Subject of Study: America and the Holocaust
Facing History and Ourselves
- American and the Holocaust, reading with questions
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- United States and the Holocaust, Holocaust Encyclopedia
- Commemoration Themes: American Responses, 16 minute video
- National Days of Remembrance: American Responses, reading
Yad Vashem
- The World and the Holocaust, reading
Subject of Study: Justice and Accountability
Facing History
- Nuremberg Remembered Documentary: A Lesson on Guilt and Responsibility, two 50 minute lessons
- The Reckoning: Understanding the International Criminal Court, lessons around three film excerpts from the documentary film
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- How Were the Crimes Defined? Holocaust Encyclopedia reading
- The Crime of Genocide, Holocaust Encyclopedia reading
- War Crimes Trial: Historical Film Footage, six excerpts from October 1945 to September 1947
- Justice and Accountability, 10 minute video
Subject of Study: Rwanda Genocide
United Nations
PBS
- "Ghosts of Rwanda," a documentary to mark the 10th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide, it examines the social, political, and diplomatic failures that converged to enable the genocide to occur.
Subject of Study: Cambodian Genocide
Documentation Center of Cambodia
Subject of Study: Pequot War
Battlefields of the Pequot War
Mashantucket Pequot Museum