Learning Resources

Resources 

• Holocaust Encyclopedia: Available in 15 languages, the encyclopedia includes historical photographs and film footage, personal stories and eyewitness testimony, artifacts, and music to tell the story of the Holocaust.

• Timeline: A chronology of key events from World War I through the Holocaust and its aftermath

• For Educators: Resources and guidelines for teaching about the Holocaust, as well as information about professional development opportunities

• Lesson Plan: the Path to Nazi Genocide (PDF): Organized around the 38-minute documentary, The Path to Nazi Genocide, these materials and discussion questions provide students with an introduction to the Nazi rise to power and the Holocaust. 

• Lesson Plan: Connecting the Timeline Activity to The Path to Nazi Genocide (PDF): This lesson the impact of state-sponsored antisemitism and the intersections of World War II and the Holocaust using The Path to Nazi Genocide and the Timeline Activity.

• Viewing Guide and Answer Key (PDF): Questions for students to answer while watching The Path to Nazi Genocide.

Additional Reading

Nazi Racial Ideology

• Victims of the Nazi Era: Nazi Racial Ideology

• Nazi Propaganda

• Racism

• Antisemitism

Nazi Camps

• Nazi Camps

• SS and the Camp System

• Deportations to Killing Centers

• Liberation of Nazi Camps

• Liberation Animated Map

Resistance

• Jewish Resistance

• German Resistance to Hitler

• Armed Jewish Resistance: Partisans

• Spiritual Resistance in the Ghettos

• Resistance Animated Map

Rescue

• Rescue

• Jewish Aid and Rescue

• Escape from German-Occupied Europe

• Rescue Animated Map

American Response

• The United States and the Holocaust

• United States Policy and Its Impact on European Jews

Postwar

• The Aftermath of the Holocaust

• Displaced Persons

• War Crimes Trials