Teacher Aids
PUBLICATIONS:
Byrnes, Deborah A. "Teacher, they called me a -------!". Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, New York, 1995.
A collection of 69 classroom activities for the elementary school student. Useful in raising children's level of awareness, understanding and tolerance of differences. Helpful in reducing the formation of prejudicial attitudes by challenging many of the stereotypes to which children are exposed.
Margolis, Peppy, et al. Caring Makes a Difference: Responding to Prejudice, Genocide and the Holocaust--A K-8 Curriculum. Brookdale Community College Center for Holocaust Studies, Lincroft, New Jersey, 1990. This curriculum guide is not available through the Second Generation Holocaust Education Fund and must be ordered directly from the Center for Holocaust Studies at Brookdale Community College. Their phone number is 1-732-224-2769.
Matiella, Ana Consuelo. Positively Different: Creating a Bias-Free Environment for Young Children. ETR Associates, Santa Cruz, California, 1991.
Suggestions for teachers, parents and other care providers of children to age 10.
Peters, William. A Class Divided: Then and Now. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 1987.
In the 1970s, a teacher in an Iowa farming community taught her third-graders about the effects of prejudice by dividing the class on the basis of eye-color. Fifteen years later, she met with some of her former students to analyze the experiment in prejudice reduction and its impact on their lives.
Teaching Tolerance magazine. Educators are eligible for a free subscription from Teaching Tolerance, 400 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, AL 36104 ( http://www.splcenter.org/center/tt/teach.jsp or fax: 334-264-3121).
Catalogs and Teacher Resources:
Primary Grades (K-3)
PUBLICATIONS:
Adler, David A. The Number on My Grandfather's Arm. UAHC Press, New York, 1987.
A survivor of the Holocaust tries to explain to his granddaughter the meaning of the tattooed concentration camp number on his arm.
Bunting, Eve. Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust. The Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia, 1989.
An introduction to the Holocaust that encourages very young readers to stand up for what they think is right. An award-winning allegory of the Holocaust for the preschool and primary reader.
Cohen, Barbara. Molly's Pilgrim. Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, New York, 1983.
Molly, a 9-year-old immigrant, is not accepted by her classmates because she is different. Eventually the class comes to understand that Molly and her family are much like the Pilgrims who came to this country in search of religious freedom.
Klonsky, Ruth L. and Gelston, Elaine R. Our Umbrella of Friendship. Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith, New York, 1989.
An activity/coloring book for young children (pre-K-3) to celebrate diversity and combat prejudice.
Seuss, Dr. The Sneetches and Other Stories. Random House, New York, 1989.
Story objective: recognizing and accepting differences.
Weissmann Klein, Gerda. Promise of a New Spring: the Holocaust and Renewal. Phoenix Folios, Scottsdale, Arizona, 1981.
The history of the Holocaust written in language appropriate for the new reader. A forest fire is presented as an analogy of the Holocaust, with the coming of a new spring representing rebirth, renewal and hope for a better future.
VIDEOS:
Eye of the Storm: A teacher's two-day experiment in which she divides her third-grade class according to eye-color, into the superior and inferior groups, teaches her students powerful lessons about prejudice (25 minutes).
Molly's Pilgrim: Molly, a 9-year-old immigrant, is not accepted by her classmates because she is different. Eventually the class comes to understand that Molly and her family are much like the Pilgrims who came to this country in search of religious freedom (34 minutes).
Sneetches: A classic by Dr. Seuss. This video helps youngsters recognize and accept differences and begin to understand the meaning of prejudice (10 minutes).
Intermediate Grades (4-6)
PUBLICATIONS:
Cohn, Janice. The Christmas Menorahs: How a Town Fought Hate. Albert Whitman & Company, Morton Grove, Illinois, 1995.
Based on real events, this story tells how two children, two families, and a community resolve to stand together against bigotry and acts of hatred.
Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars. Dell/Yearling Publishing, South Holland, Illinois, 1989.
A Newberry Award winner; this book teaches about the Danish resistance that smuggled almost the entire Danish Jewish population to safety.
Matas, Carol. Daniel's Story. Scholastic, Inc., New York, 1993.
Based on accounts given by Holocaust survivors, young readers identify with real characters to gain a strong sense of the Holocaust and the suffering of its six million victims.
Orlev, Uri. The Man from the Other Side. Puffin Books, New York, 1989.
Gripping, true story of a Christian teenager smuggling food to Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto.
Stadtler, Bea. The Holocaust: A History of Courage and Resistance. Behrman House, Inc., West Orange, New Jersey, 1974.
Profiles heroic Jewish men and women and examines critical events and allies.
Tyler, Laura. Anne Frank: What Made Them Great. Silver Burdett Press, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1990.
Retells Anne's story, tracing her life from birth through her hiding in the secret annex, to her death in Bergen-Belsen.
VIDEOS:
Daniel's Story: Tells the story of the Holocaust as seen through the eyes of a child named Daniel--a composite character whose experiences embody those of all the children of the Holocaust (15 minutes).
Eye of the Storm: A teacher's two-day experiment in which she divides her third-grade class according to eye-color, into the superior and inferior groups, teaches her students powerful lessons about prejudice (25 minutes).
Middle School Grades (7-8)
PUBLICATIONS:
Altshuler, David A. and Dawidowicz, Lucy S. Hitler's War Against the Jews. Behrman House, Inc., West Orange, New Jersey, 1978.
Discusses the growth of anti-Semitism in Germany from the sixteenth century until the Holocaust during the twentieth century.
Friedman, Ina R. The Other Victims: First-Person Stories of Non-Jews Persecuted by the Nazis. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1990.
While every Jew was a victim, millions of others who did not conform to the racial and political standards of Hitler's police state, were also victimized.
Gilbert, Martin. Atlas of the Holocaust. William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York, 1993.
A compilation of 316 maps with annotations based on documentary evidence, chronicles the Holocaust. This book is a must for every library.
Lester, Elenore. Wallenberg: The Man in the Iron Web. Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1982.
The true story of a remarkable man who defied the Nazis and saved the lives of thousands of Hungarian Jews.
Meltzer, Milton. Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust. HarperTrophy, New York, 1988.
These true stories of personal courage serve as reminders that one need not be passive nor silent in the face of evil.
Roseman, Kenneth. Escape from the Holocaust. Union of American Hebrew Congregations, New York, 1985.
On each page of the story, the reader is faced with a choice, and depending on the choice the reader makes, the story unfolds differently.
VIDEOS:
Courage to Care: While others "followed orders," these "ordinary" people followed their conscience, risking their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust years. The deeds they recall refute allegations that individuals were powerless against the might of the Third Reich (28 minutes).
The Prejudice Film: The many manifestations of prejudice--from the "innocent" telling of an ethnic joke through acts of violence--are discussed, as is the individual's role in perpetuating or eradicating attitudes that result in discrimination against racial, ethnic and religious groups (28 minutes).
The Wave: Based on an actual high school experiment, this film poses some difficult questions for those who believe "it can't happen here" (46 minutes).
High School and Beyond
PUBLICATIONS:
Flender, Harold. Rescue in Denmark. Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 1963.
A story of individual acts of heroism and sacrifice that saved all but a handful of Denmark's Jews from the Germans.
Gilbert, Martin. Atlas of the Holocaust. William Morrow and Company, Inc., New York, 1993.
A compilation of 316 maps with annotations based on documentary evidence, chronicles the Holocaust. This book is a must for every library.
Gutman, Israel. Resistance: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, 1994.
This book dispels the myths that the Jews did not resist the Nazis. A few hundred trapped Jews, mostly teenagers, valiantly rose up against the heavily armed German army.
Lipstadt, Deborah. Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory. Maxwell MacMillan Canada, Inc., Ontario, Canada, 1993.
The denial of the Holocaust has no more credibility than the assertion that the earth is flat. Yet there is a well-funded movement of prominent individuals who insist that the death of 6,000,000 Jews at the hands of the Nazis is nothing but a hoax perpetrated by a powerful Zionist conspiracy. The author focuses on this incredible and potentially dangerous practice of historical revisionism.
Shermer, Michael and Grobman, Alex. Denying History: Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened and Why Do They Say It? University of California Press, Los Angeles, 2000.
The authors go much deeper than ever before in not only trying to understand the motives of the Holocaust deniers, but also refuting their points one by one. In the process, they show how we can be certain that the Holocaust happened and, for that matter, how we can confirm any historical event.
Spiegelman, Art. Maus: A Survivor's Tale I. Pantheon Books, New York, 1986.
Written in comic-book fashion, the author tells how his parents survived Hitler's Europe, a harrowing tale of countless brushes with death, improbable escapes, and the terror of confinement and betrayal.
Wiesel, Elie. Night. Bantam Books, New York, 1960.
The author describes his first harrowing night in Auschwitz where, as a 14-year-old, he loses his mother, his sister, his faith in G-d, and his desire to live.
Wyman, David S. The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust, 1941-1945. Pantheon Books, New York, 1984.
The author asks and answers questions concerning how much was known in America about the Holocaust and criticizes the official response from the U.S. government.
VIDEOS:
Courage to Care: While others "followed orders," these "ordinary" people followed their conscience, risking their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust years. The deeds they recall refute allegations that individuals were powerless against the might of the Third Reich (28 minutes).
Escape from Sobibor: Based on years of research, this dramatization of the heroic uprising in Sobibor, Poland (where more than a quarter million Jews were annihilated), movingly portrays Jewish resistance during the Holocaust (120 minutes).
The Prejudice Film: The many manifestations of prejudice--from the "innocent" telling of an ethnic joke through acts of violence--are discussed, as is the individual's role in perpetuating or eradicating attitudes that result in discrimination against racial, ethnic and religious groups (28 minutes).
Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future: Deals with the most tragic victims of the Holocaust, the 1,500,000 children who perished. Viewers join visitors, young and old, white and black, Jew and Gentile, as they express their profound shock at the incomprehensible realities with which they are confronted on their visit to Jerusalem's Yad Vashem museum and its haunting Children's Memorial (15 minutes).
They Risked Their Lives: Eloquent in their denial they did anything heroic, Holocaust rescuers from twelve countries speak of their experiences. Not Jewish themselves, they risked their lives to save Jews. Along with stories of moral courage, this video raises disturbing questions: Why were there so few rescuers and so many collaborators? What did we learn from the Holocaust with anti-Semitism resurging in the 1990s? Length: multiple stand-alone vignettes of a few minutes each, totaling 54 minutes.
The Wave: Based on an actual high school experiment, this film poses some difficult questions for those who believe "it can't happen here" (46 minutes).
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