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Weblinks and Educational Tools
All of the following red descriptions link to web pages maintained
by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
in Washington D. C.
Holocaust Encyclopedia
A step-by-step, interactive exploration of Holocaust history. Complete with full-color maps, photographs, audio and video testimonies, topical sections, etc. Written at a level appropriate to grades 8 and above.
Special Focus
These special focus pages highlight Museum resources on issues of current interest and public debate.
Online Exhibitions
These special online exhibitions present new subjects and also extend the reach of Museum public programs and special exhibitions.
Teacher Resource and Educational Downloads
Education page for downloadable or orderable teacher materials and resources
Personal Histories - Topical Testimonies with Video
Several testimonies with video arranged into a variety of Holocaust topics including children, survival, liberation, deportations, etc.
Mapping the Holocaust - Interactive Maps arranged by title and topic
An animated series of maps that tells the story of the Holocaust through colorful maps that demonstrate the locations, movements, and transformations of troops, Jews, and of Europe .
Teaching about the Holocaust: A Resource Book for Educators
This downloadable 100+ page resource provides guidelines for teaching about the Holocaust, a historical summary and chronology, and an annotated bibliography and videography on Holocaust-related topics. It also describes information about programs offered by Museum educators and additional resources for teachers. To view or print sections of the resource book:
Part 1: Introduction, Museum Information for Educators, Group Visit Information and Guidelines (10)
Part 2: Annotated Bibliography & Videography (74 pages)
Part 3: Teaching Guidelines, FAQs, The Holocaust: A Historical Summary, Children and the Holocaust, Chronology (49 pages
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Yad Vashem Homepage
This site is constantly updated with new and interesting links to resources. Special projects and recent exhibits are highlighted and linked from here.
The Central Database of Shoah Victims' Names
The Names Database is an international undertaking led by Yad Vashem, from Jerusalem . It is the attempt to reconstruct the names and life stories of all the Jews who perished in the Shoah. Taken primarily from Pages of Testimony filled out by family members and friends, then scanned in over the course of several years, an estimated three million Jews are commemorated in the database. A great deal of work went into making these archives searchable.
The Stories Behind the Names: a Journey of Discovery
"The Stories Behind the Names: a Journey of Discovery" uses Pages of Testimony to teach about some of the people who were murdered in the Holocaust. The staff at the International School for Holocaust Studies used Yad Vashem's vast educational databases to analyze and expand on the biographical details that appear on Pages of Testimony. They transformed the seemingly dry facts on the Pages of Testimony into stories with immense educational value.
Echoes and Reflections
Echoes and Reflections is a multimedia curriculum on the Holocaust developed by the ADL, the Shoah Foundation and Yad Vashem. The curriculum gives high school teachers a comprehensive tool box for teaching about the Holocaust. Subjects include antisemitism, Nazi German, the ghettos, The "Final Solution," and several others.
The Holocaust Resource Center
The Holocaust Resource Center provides easy access to in-depth information about the Holocaust. The Center has a large collection of sources from the Yad Vashem Archives, including various kinds of original Holocaust-era documentation provided in English including letters and diaries written by Jews during the Holocaust, numerous photographs and original documents. The Holocaust Resource Center serves as a repository for the collection of the testimonies of Holocaust survivors that have been collected at Yad Vashem over the years, as well as excerpts from memoirs written by survivors after the war.
Posted on the homepage of the Resource Center are thirteen main topical links. Upon entering a section you will find an introduction to the topic and links to various additional sources on the subject. Here you can limit your search by selecting one of the sub-sections. Once inside a section, you will be offered an introductory summary and links to the relevant items which would be found at the bottom of the page. You can also access the sources in the Resource Center by selecting types of sources (e.g., photographs) or any of a 130 keywords. There is also a lexicon, bibliography, and a timeline.
Online Exhibitions
Links to a variety of special exhibitions related to Holocaust art, history, documents, etc.
"I Completely Forgot that I was Hungry": Youth Groups in The Lodz Ghetto
This is a special online exhibition that highlights the history and the crucial roles Youth Groups came to play in the ghettos in general and in the Lodz ghetto in particular. It is complete with original photos, documents, a narrative guide and analysis.
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