Resources for Teaching about the Holocaust
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.
