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The Florida Center for Instructional Technology has created A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust, a comprehensive set of resources for teaching students about the holocaust.  If you teach books like Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl,  The Book Thief, Number the Stars, or Night, then A Teacher’s Guide to Holocaust is an Internet resource you don’t want to miss.

The layout is simple, the resources are endless.  The guide is divided into 15 different areas:

• Bibliographies: A lists of holocaust-related literature sorted by genre and grade level
• Documents: Primary source materials such as official Nazi party statements and Nuremberg trial addresses.
  
• Galleries: Archival and contemporary camp photographs, and other relevant images
• Glossary: Including sound samples of word pronunciations
• Maps: Political maps and layouts of specific camps
• Movies: First-hand survivor stories and much more, including a short archival clip of Kristallnacht
• Museums: Information and links to various holocaust museums around the world
• Music: Relevant sound files like Kol Nidre and Shalom Alechem
• Plays: Educational plays with a holocaust theme, including links to online plays
• Quizzes: Interactive online quizzes
• Software: CD-ROM resources for teachers and students
• Videography: A comprehensive list of holocaust-related films, sorted by title or subject
• Virtual Reality Movies: Panoramic views of concentration camps
• Web Search: Holocaust-related search engines and directories
• Web Sites: A collection of high-quality links sorted into several categories

A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust is another fantastic web resource from the same organization that hosts Lit 2 Go.  Highly recommended.

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