General Resources
Book Resources
- Jewish Book Council
- School Library Journal
- The World Must Know
- The Holocaust and Human Behavior
- Salvaged Pages: Young Writer’s Diaries of the Holocaust
Resources by Focus Area
Prewar Jewish Life
- USHMM Photo Archives
- A Vanished World (Roman Vishniac)
- Myjewishlearning.com
- Historical Atlas of Judaism (Barnes and Bacon)
- From the Heart: Life Before and After the Holocaust – A Mosaic of Memories (Midwest Center for Holocaust Education)
Antisemitism
- German Propaganda Archive
- Der Giftpilz (The Poisonous Mushroom)
- Why the Jews (USHMM)
- The Plot: The Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion (Eisner)
- A Convenient Hatred: The History of Antisemitism (Goldstein)
Rise of the Nazis and Propaganda
Early Persecution and Emigration, 1933 – 1939
Ghettos and Einsatzgruppen, 1939 – 1942
- Rachel Auerbacher and the Public Kitchen in the Warsaw Ghetto
- The Lodz Ghetto
- The Map of the Holocaust by Bullets
- Hitler’s Hidden Holocaust (National Geographic Video)
- Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak (Alan Adelson)
- Reina’s Diary: A Holocaust Journal (Reina Spiegel)
- Salvaged Pages: Young Writers Diaries from the Holocaust (Alexandra Zapruder)
- I’m Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust
- Survivor Testimonies
The Final Solution
- Wannsee Protocols
- The Auschwitz Album
- The Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
- Night (Elie Wiesel)
- Salia’s Gift (Kershner)
- Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Art Spiegelman)
- Maus II: A Survivor’s Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Art Spiegelman)
- Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps (Andrea Warren)
- Paper Hearts (Meg Wiviot)
- Survivor Testimonies
Rescue and Resistance
- Oneg Shabbat Archive
- Jewish Partisans
- Rescue Maps and Escape Routes
- Something Beautiful Happened (Yvette Corporon)
- Hidden: A Child’s Story of the Holocaust (Loic Dauvallier)
- On Both Sides of the Wall: Memoirs from the Warsaw Ghetto (Vladka Meed)
- Lily Renee Escape Artist: From Holocaust Survivor to Comic Book Pioneer (Trina Robbins)
- Survivor Testimonies
Liberation and Aftermath
- Harrison Report – Mission to Europe to inquire into the conditions and needs of…the Jewish refugees…
- Truman and the Holocaust
- Eisenhower Documents – World War II: Holocaust, The Extermination of European Jews
- All These Delicate Sorrows Documentary
- The Long Way Home Documentary
- Documenting the Path of American Liberators
- The Tenth Man (Ida Fink)
- New Americans and the Memorial to the Six Million
- Survivor Testimonies
Lesson Planning Resources
- Echoes and Reflections – Studying the Holocaust
- USHMM – Holocaust Lesson Plans
- Yad Vashem Lesson Plans
- Facing History – Rise of the Nazis
- Challenges of Escape
- Facing History – Kristallnacht
- The US and the Holocaust – Ken Burns in the Classroom, PBS
- Who Will Write Our History?
- Great Aktion in the Warsaw Ghetto
- Mapping Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Traits that Transcend
- Resistance During the Holocaust
- Preparing for the Kindertransport
- Jewish Resistance
- Rescue and Righteous Among the Nations
- Origins of Eugenics
- Race and Membership in American History
- Black Americans and the Nazi Olympics
- Immigration and Refugees: A Case Study on the Wagner-Rogers Bill
- Aftermath of the Holocaust (Map)
- Focus on Liberation (Map)