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- "Daniel's
Story," Carol Matas. Grade level: Primary-Mid grades. A companion
volume to the video produced by the USHMM, this fictionalized
account tells the story of the Holocaust through the eyes of a
young boy.
- "Devil in
Vienna," Doris Orgel. Grade level: Jr. High. A Gentile and a Jewish
girl share a friendship in the Austrian capital that is affected
by the Nazi rise to power.
- "Dry Tears:
The Story of a Lost Childhood," Nehama Tec. Grade level: High
school-adult. The story of a young girl who receives refuge with
a series of Christian families in Poland and must learn to "pass"
as a Christian herself.
- "Echoes
from the Holocaust," Mira Ryczke Kimmelman. Grade level:
High School -adult. Kimmelman had no way of preserving her experiences
on paper while they happened, but she trained herself to remember.
And now as a survivor of the Holocaust, she has preserved her
recollections for posterity in this powerful and moving book-one
woman's personal perspective of a terrible moment in human history.
Mira Kimmelman is a resident of Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
- "Friedrich,"
Hans Peter Ritcher. Grade level: Mid grades and above. A classic
book. His best friend thought Friedrich was lucky. His family
had a good home and enough money at a time in Germany (1930's)
when thousands were unemployed. But when Hitler came to power,
things changed.
- "Maus I:
A Survivor's Tale and Maus II: And Here My Troubles Began," Art
Spiegelman. Grade Level: High school and above. Comic strip format
and mature satire are used to examine the Holocaust from the perspective
of a child of survivors.
- "Rescuers,"
Gay Block and Malka Drucker. Grade level: Mid grades and above.
This book is a compilation of the stories of many men and women
from eleven different European countries who risked their own
lives to save others. Easily segmented for classroom use by country
and be individual rescuer accounts.
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- "The Holocaust:
A History of Courage and Resistance," Bea Stadtler. Grade level:
Jr. High. Describes the experiences of Jews in Germany and other
European countries during the twelve years of the Third Reich
when more than six million were systematically destroyed.
- "The Upstairs
Room," Johanna Reiss. Grade level: Jr. High. Autobiographical
story based on experiences of author and her sister and their
years in hiding with a farm family during the Holocaust.
- "The Wave,"
Todd Strasser. Grade level: Mid grades and above. A dramatization
of a classroom experiment on individualism versus conformity.
A high school teacher created his own "Reich" to show how the
German people could so willingly embrace Nazism.
- "The World
Must Know," Michael Berenbaum. Grade
level: High school and above. Through photos and documents obtained
by the United States Holocaust Museum, this book recounts the
history of the Holocaust.
- "The Triumphant
Spirit," Nick Del Calzo. Grade level: High school and adult. This
large format book contains one page accounts by 93 Holocaust survivors.
It enables teachers and students to meet these individuals face-to-face
and hear their messages of "hope and compassion".
- "Twenty
and Ten," Claire Huchet Bishop. Grade level: Primary and above.
Based on a true story. During the German occupation of France,
twenty French-Jewish children were brought to a Catholic refuge
in the mountains. Sister Gabriel guides her students, and her
newest charges, to safety following a Nazi search for Jewish orphans.
- "Upon the
Head of a Goat," Aranka Siegal. Grade level: Jr. High. Wartime
experiences in Hungary of a 14-year old girl transported with
her family to Auschwitz.
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Videos/CDs
- "America
and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference." Grade level: High
school. Running time: 60 min. This video paints a troubling picture
of the U.S. during a period beset with anti-Semitism and anti-immigrant
feelings.
- "Anne Frank
Remembered." Grade level: High school. Running time: 117 Min.
Academy Award winner of Best Documentary in 1996, this film follows
in the footsteps of Anne Frank after the family is sent to concentration
camps.
- "Assignment:
Rescue" (Teacher's guide and paperback text included). Grade level:
Jr. High. Running time: 26 min. A documentary about the heroic
efforts of Varian Fry, the American editor of LIVING AGE magazine,
who rescued more than 200 famous intellectual refugees from the
hands of the Nazis at the start of World War II in 1940.
- "Camera of
My Family." Grade level: Mid grades and above; Running time: 18
min. This video is an affective way to involve students in Holocaust
studies without exposing them to any graphic material.
- "Heil Hitler!
Confessions of a Hitler Youth." Grade level: Mid grades and above.
Running time: 30 min. This true account, based on the book by
Alfons Hech, uses documentary footage to show how songs, youth
group rallies, speeches and indoctrination reinforced Hitler's
lies and led 8,000 young Germans to pledge their lives to their
leader.
- "Courage
to Care." Grade level: Mid grades and above. Running time: 29
min.
This video profiles non-Jews who risked their own lives to rescue
Jews from Nazi persecution.
- "Green Eggs
and Ham and Other Stories"...see "The Sneetches." Grade
level: Primary and above. Running time: 15 min. The development
of intolerance by small steps is illustrated in this short segment.
Since Sneetches are not an already defined group for students
they bring no emotional preconceptions to this exercise. This
is a trigger activity that allows students to explore the subject
in greater depth.
- "One Survivor
Remembers." Grade level: High school and above. Running time:
39 min. A 1996 Oscar winner in the documentary category, this
video is the story of Gerda Weissmann Klein, an eloquent spokeswoman
of Holocaust experiences.
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- "Shadow of
Hate: A History of Intolerance in America," Southern Poverty Law
Center (Teacher's guide and illustrated text included). Grade
Level: Mid grades and above. Running time: 40 min. The video is
a lesson in citizenship and democracy. Through documentary footage
and eyewitness reports, students are given a powerful view of
historical events from the perspective of ordinary people who
lived through them. For history, social studies, civics and language
arts classes.
- "Survivors
of the Holocaust," Survivors of the Shoah Foundation (Teacher
guide included). Grade level: High school and above. Running time:
75 min. Powerful survivor interviews and documentary footage combine
to make this videotape a very effective teaching tool.
- "Survivors:
Testimonies of the Holocaust," Survivors of the Shoah Foundation
Teacher set of 2 CD-ROMS and a guide to this interactive software.
This CD-ROM can be used on both PC and Mac platforms. It offers
students the chance to meet four survivors and learn the history
that surrounded each distinct account.
- "Everything
Changed For Us." Grade level: Mid grades and above. Running time:
17 min. This documentary explores the lives of Jews, primarily
in Germany, who grew up during the Nazi rise to power. Now adults,
all of the individuals interviewed live in Nashville.
- "The Holocaust:
Through Our Own Eyes." Grade level: Mid grades and above. Running
time: 38 min. This powerful documentary edited from personal interviews
with nearly fifty eyewitnesses--refugees, camp survivors, individuals
in hiding, non-Jewish citizens of Nazi-occupied Europe, and liberators--recount
their painful experiences. It chronicles the history of the Holocaust
through their first-hand accounts.
- "The Wave."
Grade level: Mid grades and above. Running time: 46 min. A dramatization
of a classroom experiment on individualism versus conformity.
A high school teacher created his own "Reich" to show how the
German people could so willingly embrace Nazism.
- "Triumph
of the Will." Grade level: High school and above. Running time:
80 min. This subtitled documentary is Leni Riefenstahl's propaganda
record of the 1934 Nazi Party Congress in Nuremberg, Germany.
It shows how political "support" can be effectively staged and
viewer opinion manipulated. It is extraordinary first-hand footage
and can be shown in selective segments.
- "Weapons
of the Spirit" (classroom edition). Grade level: Mid grades and
above. Running time: 38 min. Newsreel footage and interviews with
both rescuers and those who were saved detail the story of the
French village of Le Chambon in Vichy, France. Led by their pastor,
villagers rescued 5,000 Jewish children during the Holocaust.
The film's producer was one of them.
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