Resource Theme: Holocaust
This resource guide supports educators in teaching about the historical construction of race, the rise of pseudoscientific racism, and the impact of dehumanizing ideologies. It includes strategies, activities, and…
180-240 Minutes
Grades 6-12
This mini-unit explores the experiences of Jewish communities in Morocco, Algeria, Libya, and Tunisia before and during World War II and the Holocaust. Through primary sources, personal reflections, and…
120-180 Minutes
Grades 9-12
This lesson invites students to explore how communities remember the Holocaust and other genocides through memorials and monuments. By analyzing existing memorials and designing their own, students reflect on…
30-60 Minutes
Grades 6-12
The lessons in this unit increase students’ understanding of Jewish people and awareness that antisemitism did not end after the Holocaust, and provide them with opportunities to learn about…
180-240 Minutes
Grades 9-12
In this interdisciplinary lesson, students use Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny to explore how authoritarian regimes gain power and how individuals can protect democratic institutions. Through historical case studies, media…
120-180 Minutes
Grades 6-8
Survivor: Aron’s Story is an award-winning hardcover illustrated graphic novel and history book based on the first hand Holocaust testimony of Aron, a young Jewish-Soviet boy from 1940s Odessa,…
30-60 Minutes
Grades 6-8. Extension activities for 9 - 12
Students learn about the history of antisemitism, and contemporary antisemitic tropes. Students gain an understanding of the spread of misinformation, honing media literacy skills to discern between truth and…
60-120 Minutes
Grades 9-12
This lesson features excerpts from Rywka’s Diary: The Writings of a Jewish Girl from the Lodz Ghetto. It is a portrait of an individual, Rywka Lipszyc, her strength, spirit,…
60-120 Minutes
Grades 9-12
Four interactive webquests that teach students why and how to resist antisemitism. Lessons can be taught individually or combined….
30-60 Minutes
Grades 6-12
This lesson explores the connection between ideology and propaganda. Students learn about the history of antisemitism, and contemporary antisemitic tropes, designed to promote empathy and developing critical thinking. The…
180-240 Minutes
Grades 8-12
After defining the term genocide, this lesson provides four examples for comparative analysis: the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, the Cambodian Genocide, and the Rwandan Genocide. Using artifacts and testimonies…
180-240 Minutes
Grades 9-12
Drawing from the archives of the Warsaw Ghetto, this lesson helps students grapple with the question of how we form a factual knowledge of history through analysis of primary…
120-180 Minutes
Grades 8-12