Resource Links
A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust
Provides a broad spectrum of classroom resources using photographs, documents, art, music, movies and literature.
Anne Frank Museum
Provides comprehensive online resources on Anne Frank, including a bibliography, curriculum, downloadable materials and an interactive illustrated scrapbook on the life of Anne Frank for younger students.
Anti-Defamation League
Extensive resources and materials on issues of anti-Semitism, civil rights, hate crimes and the Holocaust.
Arnold-Liebster Foundation
Provides comprehensive resources on the Nazi persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses, including online and downloadable study guides and lesson plans, survivor memoirs, traveling exhibits, online exhibitions, interactive video conference with survivors, curriculum resources, and more.
Einsatzgruppen Electronic Repository
Provides an extensive collection of documents, testimonies, trial transcripts and photographs documenting the brutal history of the Einsatzgruppen mobile killing units.
Facing History and Ourselves
Facing History engages students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry. By studying the historical development and lessons of the Holocaust and other examples of genocide, students make the essential connection between history and the choices they confront in their own lives. Site provides comprehensive online resources, including downloadable lessons and units, classroom strategies, online modules, lending library and information on professional development opportunities.
Generations of the Shoah International
A worldwide network of children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors,
all linked together with the common goals of preserving and honoring our legacy, sharing resources and programming ideas, providing emotional support
to our members, and tackling issues of mutual interest.
Genocide Education Network of Illinois (GENI)
The Genocide Education Network of Illinois is a non-profit initiative founded in 2006 in response to the amendment to the Illinois Holocaust Education Mandate, to include the study of other genocides. GENI is a volunteer-based organization dedicated to assisting educators in identifying genocide education resources, obtain the training needed to effectively teach about genocide, and creating a forum for educators to network and share their experiences to develop new materials and methods.
Holocaust Teacher Resource Center
Sponsored by the Holocaust Education Foundation, Inc. Educators (K-12) will find material; including entire documents that may be downloaded for direct use in the classroom.
Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR)
Jewish Foundation for the Righteous was established to fulfill the traditional Jewish commitment to hakarat hatov, the searching out and recognition of goodness. They provide financial assistance to aged and needy non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. They also educate teachers and students about the history of the Holocaust and rescue. Educators will find valuable resources available for purchase, as well as information on seminar programs.
Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
Considered to be the largest on-line resource for information on the Jewish partisans. The site’s materials are available free of charge, geared toward grades 7-12, and may be accessed directly from the classroom. Teachers and students can download study guides, watch personal testimonies, and explore a 3-D version of a partisan bunker and more.
Remember - Zachor
A growing database of background information including witness accounts, bibliographies; stories by children of survivors; and a growing section called “Legacy…An Education for Teachers” where teachers can come to learn from each other and share lessons.
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
Containing testimonies from 56 countries and in 32 languages this site provides online lesson plans, downloadable or stream video for use in the classroom, as well as online exhibitions and special segments using an extensive archive of testimony.
Simon Wiesenthal Center
International Jewish human rights organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust by fostering tolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach, and social action. Large site with teacher’s resource materials.
Social Studies School Service (Resource Catalogue)
A private developer and vendor of educational resources featuring prescreened and evaluated teacher’s materials and lessons plans on teaching the Holocaust
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Extensive resources with exceptional materials, narratives, images, virtual exhibitions, and lessons plans
Yad Vashem, Israel Holocaust Martyr’s and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority
Provides comprehensive online resources and a historical overview, virtual exhibitions, and lesson plans
Provides a broad spectrum of classroom resources using photographs, documents, art, music, movies and literature.
Anne Frank Museum
Provides comprehensive online resources on Anne Frank, including a bibliography, curriculum, downloadable materials and an interactive illustrated scrapbook on the life of Anne Frank for younger students.
Anti-Defamation League
Extensive resources and materials on issues of anti-Semitism, civil rights, hate crimes and the Holocaust.
Arnold-Liebster Foundation
Provides comprehensive resources on the Nazi persecution of Jehovah's Witnesses, including online and downloadable study guides and lesson plans, survivor memoirs, traveling exhibits, online exhibitions, interactive video conference with survivors, curriculum resources, and more.
Einsatzgruppen Electronic Repository
Provides an extensive collection of documents, testimonies, trial transcripts and photographs documenting the brutal history of the Einsatzgruppen mobile killing units.
Facing History and Ourselves
Facing History engages students of diverse backgrounds in an examination of racism, prejudice, and antisemitism in order to promote the development of a more humane and informed citizenry. By studying the historical development and lessons of the Holocaust and other examples of genocide, students make the essential connection between history and the choices they confront in their own lives. Site provides comprehensive online resources, including downloadable lessons and units, classroom strategies, online modules, lending library and information on professional development opportunities.
Generations of the Shoah International
A worldwide network of children and grandchildren of Holocaust survivors,
all linked together with the common goals of preserving and honoring our legacy, sharing resources and programming ideas, providing emotional support
to our members, and tackling issues of mutual interest.
Genocide Education Network of Illinois (GENI)
The Genocide Education Network of Illinois is a non-profit initiative founded in 2006 in response to the amendment to the Illinois Holocaust Education Mandate, to include the study of other genocides. GENI is a volunteer-based organization dedicated to assisting educators in identifying genocide education resources, obtain the training needed to effectively teach about genocide, and creating a forum for educators to network and share their experiences to develop new materials and methods.
Holocaust Teacher Resource Center
Sponsored by the Holocaust Education Foundation, Inc. Educators (K-12) will find material; including entire documents that may be downloaded for direct use in the classroom.
Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR)
Jewish Foundation for the Righteous was established to fulfill the traditional Jewish commitment to hakarat hatov, the searching out and recognition of goodness. They provide financial assistance to aged and needy non-Jews who risked their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. They also educate teachers and students about the history of the Holocaust and rescue. Educators will find valuable resources available for purchase, as well as information on seminar programs.
Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
Considered to be the largest on-line resource for information on the Jewish partisans. The site’s materials are available free of charge, geared toward grades 7-12, and may be accessed directly from the classroom. Teachers and students can download study guides, watch personal testimonies, and explore a 3-D version of a partisan bunker and more.
Remember - Zachor
A growing database of background information including witness accounts, bibliographies; stories by children of survivors; and a growing section called “Legacy…An Education for Teachers” where teachers can come to learn from each other and share lessons.
Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
Containing testimonies from 56 countries and in 32 languages this site provides online lesson plans, downloadable or stream video for use in the classroom, as well as online exhibitions and special segments using an extensive archive of testimony.
Simon Wiesenthal Center
International Jewish human rights organization dedicated to preserving the memory of the Holocaust by fostering tolerance and understanding through community involvement, educational outreach, and social action. Large site with teacher’s resource materials.
Social Studies School Service (Resource Catalogue)
A private developer and vendor of educational resources featuring prescreened and evaluated teacher’s materials and lessons plans on teaching the Holocaust
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Extensive resources with exceptional materials, narratives, images, virtual exhibitions, and lessons plans
Yad Vashem, Israel Holocaust Martyr’s and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority
Provides comprehensive online resources and a historical overview, virtual exhibitions, and lesson plans
Skokie, IL