The following videos, produced by US Holocaust Memorial Museum educators and historians, provide guidance on how to teach about the Holocaust. The videos introduce Museum-created classroom-ready lessons and digital learning tools for educators and illustrate how to use them with students. The videos also cover guidelines for teaching about the Holocaust, appropriate pedagogy, and classroom strategies.
Video length: 6 minutes
These Museum resources can help you use historically relevant picture books about the Holocaust in your classroom.
Video length: 9 minutes
How did the US government and the American people respond to Nazism? Learn how to bring the Americans and the Holocaust online exhibition and lesson plans into the classroom.
Video length: 13 minutes
The Holocaust didn't occur in a vacuum but in the context of centuries of anti-Jewish actions and prejudices. This video explores the history of European antisemitism.
Video length: 11 minutes
This video introduces frameworks for art assignments related to Holocaust history that ensure respect for the victims and survivors and avoid unintentionally glorifying Nazi imagery.
Video length: 10 minutes
The Museum offers a vast array of resources to help you tailor a curriculum sequence for your students. Start by identifying your students’ needs and interests. Add your curriculum requirements to help you select Museum lessons and resources best suited to your classroom.
Video length: 8 minutes
The Museum's Holocaust Literature Guide provides accurate historical context for the stories in frequently taught works of literature.
Video length: 35 minutes
Holocaust historian Dr. Doris Bergen discusses how to introduce students to the history of the Holocaust, including how the Nazis came to power, what ideas guided their actions, and the role of World War II in making the Holocaust possible.
Video length: 40 minutes
This video shows how the Museum preserves and shares its collection of Holocaust evidence and how teachers can incorporate these primary sources into their classrooms.
Video length: 6 minutes
This video presents how to find lesson plans, teacher training materials, classroom videos, and more on the Museum's website.
Video length: 12 minutes
This video presents the foundations of effective Holocaust education. It covers guidelines for teaching about the Holocaust, essential Museum resources for educators, appropriate pedagogy, and classroom strategies.
Video length: 12 minutes
Society and culture, including social media, impact student perceptions of the Holocaust and current events. This video covers how teachers can help students make appropriate connections to the past.
Video length: 13 minutes
Close reading of literature about the Holocaust can help achieve literacy goals and improve historical understanding.
Video length: 8 minutes
This video introduces Museum lessons and resources that have accommodations and modifications to make them accessible for all students.
Video length: 16 minutes
This video addresses eight common questions about the Holocaust. It is appropriate for classroom use.
Video length: 19 minutes
There is no “one” Holocaust story, but millions of unique experiences. Learning about these experiences helps students understand the complexity of the Holocaust and the impact that war and the Holocaust had on so many lives. This video is appropriate for classroom use.
Video length: 29 minutes
Learning about Nazi ideology helps reveal the interconnected nature of Nazi antisemitic racism and territorial aggression.
Video length: 14 minutes
Learning to analyze Holocaust-era photographs supports critical thinking about how and why the Holocaust happened.
Video length: 9 minutes
This video introduces the Museum’s collection of survivor testimonies and artifacts and offers suggestions for incorporating personal stories into the classroom.
Video length: 11 minutes
This video provides strategies to help students and teachers move beyond describing people as bystanders, perpetrators, and rescuers and toward understanding the complexity of human choices and the importance of historical context.
Video length: 9 minutes
This video introduces essential educational resources that the Museum has translated into Spanish.
Video length: 13 minutes
This video demonstrates how to incorporate historical artifacts in the English classroom.
Video length: 11 minutes
Studying Nazi propaganda helps students understand the role of antisemitism in the Holocaust. Incorporating media literacy skills into this study encourages students to think critically about information they encounter every day.
Video length: 18 minutes
These resources for teaching about liberation, including a short video, follow the Museum's guidelines for teaching about the Holocaust.
Video length: 10 minutes
Teaching about the Holocaust in English classrooms presents a unique opportunity for English educators to balance best practices in English instruction with historical accuracy and context, which is critical for student understanding.
Video length: 13 minutes
Items that belonged to victims and survivors—as well as other materials that relate to their stories, experiences, and histories form the heart of the Museum’s collections. This video offers resources for incorporating primary sources into classroom instruction.
Video length: 13 minutes
One of the most powerful ways of remembering the Holocaust is hearing the voices of survivors. By incorporating survivor testimony in your classroom, students become witnesses and honor the memory of Holocaust survivors and victims.
Video length: 11 minutes
Structured around a multi-layered wall timeline, the timeline activity encourages critical thinking about the relationship between Nazi policy, World War II, historical events, and individual experiences during the Holocaust.
Video length: 8 minutes
This video offers suggestions for selecting films for the classroom and shares lessons that provide historical context for films and support students’ critical thinking.
Video length: 9 minutes
Through many brave actions large and small, Jewish people saved lives and left a lasting record of their experiences during the Holocaust. Instead of asking why didn't Jews resist the Nazis, a better question is: How was resistance during the Holocaust possible?
Video length: 12 minutes
During the 1930s, hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees tried to escape Europe and immigrate to the United States, but not everyone was successful. As the German government started to restrict the ability of Jews to earn a living, own property, and go to school, it became difficult to leave. It was also challenging to find a country willing to accept them. This video is appropriate for classroom use.
Video length: 11 minutes
Antisemitism is the prejudice against or hatred of Jews. By incorporating the long history of antisemitism into your study of the Holocaust, students learn the Holocaust didn’t occur within a vacuum but was the culmination of centuries of anti-Jewish actions and prejudices. Learning about antisemitism helps students understand why European Jews in the 1930s and 1940s were targeted, as well as identify and reject antisemitic stereotypes today.
Video length: 9 minutes
This video provides strategies and sample writing prompts that help students respond to survivor testimony more meaningfully.
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Explore lesson plans and training materials organized by theme to use in your classroom.