This lesson plan helps students to analyze the different roles played by those involved in the Holocaust and aims to provide students with the opportunity to realize the individual and total impact of their actions. Holocaust: assessing responsibility and conscience It also outlines the path by which the Nazis and their collaborators led a state to war and to the murder of millions of people. Using rare footage, the film explores their ideology, propaganda and persecution of Jews and other victims. This 38-minute film from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum examines the Nazis’ rise and consolidation of power in Germany. Use this timeline filled with images and videos from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum to help students gain context and perspective on the events that took place starting from just prior to 1933 to events that took place after 1945. Use it as a quick activity or as a warm up for deeper conversation. This powerful 10-question quiz gives students an opportunity to decide “what would they do” in the shoes of someone persecuted for their faith.
IWitness brings the first-person stories of survivors and witnesses to genocide from the USC Shoah Foundation’s The Institute for Visual History and Education archive to teachers and their students via multimedia-learning activities that encourage critical thinking, self-reflection, and help students understand the profound impact their words and actions can have on others.
Established in 1953, as the world center for documentation, research, education and commemoration of the Holocaust, Yad Vashem is today a dynamic and vital place of inter-generational and international encounter. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum inspires citizens and leaders worldwide to confront hatred, prevent genocide, and promote human dignity. The museum promotes the responsible teaching of the Holocaust through a variety of resources and programs to help the nation’s educators increase their knowledge of Holocaust history and implement sound teaching strategies.Īs the living memorial to the Holocaust, Yad Vashem safeguards the memory of the past and imparts its meaning for future generations. 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. This year, January 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day and April 28 is the remembrance day known as Yom Hashoah. Bernd Wollschlaeger presenting “I Am The Son of A Nazi: Against All Odds Change Is Possible.These resources were updated on Jan.
The March of the Living’s Broward and Boca Raton-based Southern regions will host a 2021 Speaker Series event at 7 p.m. The Israeli- American Council’s Florida Region is partnering with several South Florida organizations to present the six-day virtual walk, “6 Million Steps for Six Million Lives” for Holocaust awareness from Jan. Visit, email or call 88 for more information and where to view the programs. and “God and the Holocaust: Commemoration Concert” at 8 p.m. “A Lucky Guy” – A New Play Reading at 5 p.m. It will consist of three programs: the artistic event “Remembering Kristallnacht” at 2 p.m. The Coral Springs-based Yiddishkayt Initiative presents its first ever Virtual YI Remembers – A Holocaust Commemoration on Jan. Grossman’s conversation will be moderated by Miriam Klein Kassenoff, director of the University of Miami’s Holocaust Teacher Institute and educational specialist for Holocaust studies for Miami-Dade County Public Schools. The documentary tells the story of journalists, scholars and community leaders in the Warsaw Ghetto who vowed to defeat Nazi lies and propaganda with pen and paper. The Holocaust Memorial Miami Beach, a committee of the Greater Miami Jewish Federation, will present a virtual conversation with Robert Grossman – director, producer and writer of the documentary “Who Will Write Our History” – at 1 p.m. Contact Eckstein at or 56 for more information. “This exhibit also shows that there is hope, even after a tragedy, because the subjects of the photographs talk about how they lived their lives afterwards or how their children lived their lives afterwards,” Eckstein continued. Peter Eckstein, the Federation’s director of Jewish Education and Israel Engagement, said, “International Holocaust Remembrance Day is outwardly looking at the entire community, not just the Jewish community, and we wanted to use this as a way of educating the community so they understand the cost of hate, because all prejudice, all hate and all racism will ultimately lead to Auschwitz.”