English| UNIT | LESSON | TYPE OF RESOURCE | TITLE OF RESOURCE |
| I. Studying the Holocaust | Building a Foundation for Studying the Holocaust | Handouts | Holocaust Definitions (En and Es) | Holocaust Definitions: Sorting it Out (En and Es) | Genocide (En and Es) | IWitness Activity | What Was the Holocaust? (En and Es) | Prewar Jewish Life | Handouts | Profiles of Teenagers in Prewar Europe (En and Es) | About Jews and Judaism (En and Es) | Reflections on Teenagers in Prewar Europe (En and Es) | Epilogues (En and Es) | A Picture of Jewish Life in Europe Before WWII (En and Es) | Maps | Jewish Communities in Europe Before the Nazis Rise to Power (En and Es) | IWitness Activity | What was Jewish life like before the Holocaust? (En and Es) |
| II. Antisemitism | Antisemitism Before the Holocaust | Handouts | Defining Stereotypes (En and Es) | Definition of Antisemitism (En and Es) | Summary of Antisemitism (En and Es) | Timeline of Antisemitism (En and Es) | IWitness Activity | What is Antisemitism? (En and Es) | Nazi Antisemitic Ideology and Propaganda | Handouts | How are Ideology and Propaganda Related? (En and Es) | Jewish Communities Map Analysis (En and Es) | Nazi Ideology (En and Es) | Summary of Antisemitism (En and Es) | Nazi Propaganda Examples (En and Es) | Nazi Propaganda Analysis (En and Es) | Maps | Jewish Communities in Europe Before the Nazis Rise to Power (En and Es) | IWitness Activity | How Did Propaganda Fuel the Holocaust? (En and Es) |
| III. Nazi Germany | The Weimar Republic and Rise of the Nazi Party | Handouts | What Rights are Most Important to Me? (En and Es) | Evaluating Rights T-chart (En and Es) | The Weimar Republic and the Rise of the Nazi Party (En and Es) | The Weimar Republic and the Rise of the Nazi Party Graphic Organizer (En and Es) | Maps | Europe Before 1919 and the Treaty of Versailles (En and Es) | Europe After 1919 and the Treaty of Versailles (En and Es) | IWitness Activity | Democracy Crumbled? Why Was German Society Vulnerable to the Rise of Nazism? (En and Es) | Anti-Jewish Policy in 1930s Germany | Handouts | Nazi Germany and Anti-Jewish Policy (En and Es) | Anti-Jewish Signs in Germany (En and Es) | Examples of Anti-Jewish Policy in Nazi Germany, 1933-1938 (En and Es) | Hitlerjugend (En and Es) | Concentration Camps (En and Es) | Hitler’s Reichstag Speech (En and Es) | The Kristallnacht Pogrom – “Night of Broken Glass” | Handouts | See-Think-Wonder (En and Es) | The Kristallnacht Pogrom (En and Es) | Heydrich’s Instructions, November 1938 (En and Es) |
| III. Nazi Germany (continued) | The Kristallnacht Pogrom – “Night of Broken Glass” (continued) | Handouts | Letter by Margarete Drexler to the Gestapo (En and Es) | Description of the Riot in Dinslaken (En and Es) | Document Analysis (En and Es) | Images | Frankfurt, Germany, Burning of the Boemestrasse Synagogue, Kristallnacht¸ November 1938 (En and Es) | Magdeburg, Germany, November 10, 1938 (En and Es) | Siegen, Germany, November 10, 1938 (En and Es) | IWitness Activity | Info Quest: Kurt Messerschmidt (En and Es) | Info Quest: Kristallnacht (En and Es) | A Model for the Escalation of Hate | Handouts | Pyramid of Hate (En and Es) | Understanding Terms in the Pyramid of Hate (En and Es) | Nazi Germany and Anti-Jewish Policy (En and Es) | They Came For (En and Es) | IWitness Activity | How Does Hate Escalate? An Examination of the Past & Present (En and Es) |
| IV. The Ghettos | Establishment of the Ghettos and the Jewish Response | Handouts | See-Think-Wonder (En and Es) | The Ghettos (En and Es) | Diary Entry from the Lodz Ghetto (En and Es) | Images | Jews Crossing the Bridge in the Lodz Ghetto (En and Es) | Lodz Ghetto, 1941 (En and Es) | IWitness Activity | Info Quest: Ellis Lewin (En and Es) | Maps | Ghettos in Europe (En and Es) | Role of the Ghettos – The Lodz Ghetto as a Case Study | Handouts | The Lodz Ghetto (En and Es) | Excerpts from the Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak (En and Es) | Poem by an Unknown Girl (En and Es) | Poem by Avraham Koplowicz (En and Es) | IWitness Activity | What was life like in the Łódź Ghetto? (En and Es) | Making Connections | Handouts | Monopoly Game (En and Es) | The Butterfly (En and Es) |
| V. The “Final Solution” | How the “Final Solution” was Made Possible and Implemented | Handouts | How Should We Study the Final Solution? (En and Es) | The One (En and Es) | Excerpt from Night (En and Es) | The “Final Solution” (En and Es) | See-Think-Wonder (En and Es) | IWitness Activity | What was Auschwitz-Birkenau? (En and Es) | Images | Auschwitz Album (En and Es) | IWitness Activity | Einsatzgruppen: The Firing Squads of the Holocaust (En and Es) | Maps | Major Nazi Camps in Europe, 1944 (En and Es) | Spiritual Resistance: Attempting to Preserve Humanity in the Face of Inhumanity | Handouts | Interview with Franz Stangl (En and Es) | Excerpt from Survival in Auschwitz (En and Es) | Poems from a Camp Survivor (En and Es) | Life in the Shadow of Death (En and Es) | Excerpt from Man’s Search for Meaning (En and Es) | Images | Appell, 1944 (En and Es) | IWitness Activity | Found Poetry: A Language Arts Lesson (En and Es) | Making Connections | Handouts | Pyramid of Hate (En and Es) |
| VI. Liberation | Liberation of the Nazi Camps | Handouts | Liberator Reflections (En and Es) | Letter from Eisenhower to Marshall, April 15, 1945 (En and Es) | Testimony Reflections (En and Es) | IWitness Activity | How Did Liberation Impact the Liberators? (En and Es) | IWitness Activity | Info Quest: Howard Cwick (En and Es) | Holocaust Survivors Return to Life | Handouts | Haim Kuznitsky after Liberation (En and Es) | Artifact Analysis (En and Es) | Artifacts Related to Liberation (En and Es) | First Letters After Liberation (En and Es) | Survivors’ Return to Life (En and Es) | My Life Started from the End (En and Es) | Children Alone (En and Es) | IWitness Activity | New Beginnings – Journey to America (En and Es) | Displaced Persons’ Camps After the Holocaust | Handouts | Displaced Persons (En and Es) | Displaced Persons’ Camp Images (En and Es) | DP Camp Images – Explanation (En and Es) | IWitness Activity | Understanding Displaced Persons’ Camps (En and Es) |
| VII. Jewish Resistance | What is Resistance? | Handouts | Testimony Reflections (En and Es) | Jewish Resistance (En and Es) | Pronouncement by Abba Kovner (En and Es) | Cultural and Spiritual Resistance (En and Es) | IWitness Activity | How did Jews resist? (En and Es) | Case Study – Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto | Handouts | The Warsaw Ghetto (En and Es) | Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto (En and Es) | Armed Resistance in the Ghettos and Camps (En and Es) | Warsaw Ghetto Stations (En and Es) | Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto (En and Es) | A Chain of Resistance (En and Es) | Independent Research on Resistance | Handouts | Artifacts of Resistance (En and Es) | Research Topics and Sources (En and Es) | Artifact Reflection (En and Es) |
| VIII. Rescue and Righteous Among the Nations | The Decision to Rescue | Handouts | Case Studies of Rescuers and Liberators (En and Es) | Those Who Dared to Rescue (En and Es) | Anne Frank’s Legacy (En and Es) | The Girl in the Green Sweater (En and Es) | IWitness Activity | Oskar Schindler: A Flawed Hero (En and Es) | Groups that Rescued | Handouts | We Share the Same Sky Excerpts (En and Es) | Quotes: Danish Rescue and Resistance1 (En and Es) | Rescue in Denmark (En and Es) | Background: Kindertransport (En and Es) | Lord Baldwin’s Appeal, Great Britain, 1938 (En and Es) | Letter to the Editor, Arizona Republic, 1939 (En and Es) | Postcards from a Father (En and Es) | Letters from a Mother (En and Es) | IWitness Activity | The Kindertransport: History and Individual Experiences (Grades 6-8) (En and Es) | From the mother who will never forget you” (Grades 9-10) (En and Es) | Podcast | We Share the Same Sky (En and Es) | IWitness Activity | Why Did Some Choose Rescue? (En and Es) | Righteous Among the Nations | Handouts | Yad Vashem Criteria for “Righteous Among the Nations” (En and Es) | Budapest: Historical Background (En and Es) | A Swedish Rescuer in Budapest (En and Es) | IWitness Activity | Righteous Among the Nations (En and Es) | Making Connections | Handouts | Holocaust 1944 (En and Es) | When It Happened (En and Es) |
| IX. Complicity and Responsibility | Bystanders | Handouts | Testimony Reflections (En and Es) | Excerpts from Ponary (En and Es) | Bystanders in Photos (En and Es) | Photographic Case Study Graphic Organizer (En and Es) | Collaborators and Perpetrators | Handouts | Report by Salitter and Memoir of Hilde Sherman (En and Es) | Salitter and Sherman Graphic Organizer (En and Es) | Testimony Reflections (En and Es) | Profiting from Hatred (En and Es) | Letters from Karl Kretschmer to His Family (En and Es) | The Role of the US and Responsibility of Nations | Handouts | The Otto Frank Letter (En and Es) | The Refugee (En and Es) | Evian Conference (En and Es) | Bermuda Conference (En and Es) | Refugee Blues (En and Es) | IWitness Activity | Voyage of the St. Louis: From Hope to Despair (En and Es) | What Did Americans Know About the Holocaust? (En and Es) | Making Connections | Handouts | A Night at the Garden (En and Es) |
| X. Justice, Life and Memory After the Holocaust | War Crimes Trials | Handouts | War Crimes Trials (En and Es) | Testimony Reflections (En and Es) | Rudolf Hoess (En and Es) | Draft of a Reparations Agreement (En and Es) | Living with the Memory of the Holocaust | Handouts | Adolf Eichmann (En and Es) | Understanding Trauma (En and Es) | Artwork of Holocaust Survivors (En and Es) | See-Think-Wonder (En and Es) | Studies of Human Behavior Inspired by the Holocaust (En and Es) | IWitness Activity | The Rights of Children (En and Es) | The Memorialization of the Holocaust | Handouts | Holocaust Memorials in Europe (En and Es) | IWitness Activity | Why Do We remember? (En and Es) | Making Connections | Handouts | Farewell Letters (En and Es) |
| XI. Gringlas Unit on Antisemitism After the Holocaust | Rebuilding Jewish Life after the Holocaust | Handouts | Who are the Jewish People? (En and Es) | Brief History of Israel (En and Es) | About Jews and Judaism (En and Es) | Jewish Migration and Antisemitism after the Holocaust (En and Es) | The Perseverance of Jewish Life (En and Es) | Readings about Eastern Europe (En and Es) | Readings about Israel (En and Es) | Readings about USA (En and Es) | Maps | Map of Jewish Populations (En and Es) |
| XI. Gringlas Unit on Antisemitism After the Holocaust (continued) | What is Antisemitism and What are Features of Antisemitism Today? | Handouts | Antisemitism (En and Es) | Features of Antisemitism (En and Es) | The Through Lines of Antisemitism (En and Es) | Antisemitism Over Time (En and Es) | Antisemitic Words and Images (En and Es) | What are Some of the Forces that Drive Antisemitism Today? | Handouts | Tree of Life Synagogue Attack Word Cloud (En and Es) | The History of White Supremacist Groups in America (En and Es) | Brief History of Israel (En and Es) | The Through Lines of Antisemitism (En and Es) | Antisemitism That Finds Common Cause With the Extreme Left (En and Es) | Modern Examples of Antisemitism That Find Common Cause with the Extreme Left (En and Es) | Holocaust Denial, Distortion, Trivialization and Inversion (En and Es) | Action and Agency – Combating Antisemitism | Handouts | Miep Gies Quotes (En and Es) | Profiles of Young Advocates (En and Es) | Action Planning (En and Es) | Taking Action: Scenarios for Discussion (En and Es) | Group Action Project (En and Es) | Making Connections | Handouts | The Scope and Scale of Antisemitism (En and Es) |
| XII. Teaching About Genocide | What is the Crime of Genocide? | Handouts | Learn and Confirm Chart (En and Es) | Axis Rule in Occupied Europe (En and Es) | Genocide (En and Es) | Armenia (En and Es) | Holocaust (En and Es) | Cambodia (En and Es) | Rwanda (En and Es) | When Evil-Doing Comes Like Falling Rain (En and Es) | IWitness Activity | Dimensions in Testimony – Ben Ferencz (En and Es) | What is Genocide? (En and Es) | What do Genocides Destroy? | Handouts | Life Before Genocide Graphic Organizer (En and Es) | Life Before Genocide (En and Es) | Testimony Reflections (En and Es) | Yellow, 1962-2006 (En and Es) | How do Genocides Destroy? | Handouts | Dangerous Policies of Genocidal Regimes (En and Es) | Testimony Reflections (En and Es) | Photographic Case Study Graphic Organizer (En and Es) | The Conflagration in Photos (En and Es) | Humanity in Artifacts (En and Es) | Artifact Reflection (En and Es) | IWitness Activity | Using Media Literacy Skills to Examine the Holocaust (En and Es) | Aftermath | Handouts | Memorials and Museums of Genocide (En and Es) | Memorials and Museums of Genocide (En and Es) | Making Connections | Handouts | Official Government Correspondences (En and Es) |
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