The Holocaust
This lesson addresses an Essential Question that is common within secondary history courses: How can we know what really happened in the past? It was written to mark two occasions: […]
This lesson provides a structure for educators to guide students in comparing two texts: Primo Levi’s Survival in Auschwitz (estimated Lexile 1210) and Journey with Howard Chandler, an app available […]
This lesson addresses Essential Questions that are common within Secondary ELA courses: What makes a text effective for its purpose? How are stories from other places and times about me? […]
Overview Using the Short Film Masel Tov Cocktail students will explore concepts of identity and stereotypes. They will also explore the progression of antisemitism and continuation of implicit bias in […]
To accompany the graphic book America and the Holocaust, Author: Barbara S. Burstin, Ph. D., Ilustrator: Frederick H. Carlson This lesson relies on the use of Primary Sources to explore […]
Yehudith Kleinman was born in Venice in 1939; her mother and grandmother moved to Milan shortly thereafter. In January 1944, she was taken to a convent for safety, where she […]
This film tells the story of Howard Chandler, an 83-year-old Holocaust survivor. We return to his home village in Poland and visit the concentration camps where he was imprisoned during […]
Antisemitism existed long before Hitler’s rise to power: Jews had been victims of widespread hatred and suspicion for centuries before. This video explains the historical context of racial antisemitic ideology and […]
Ready2print exhibitions are provided as high-resolution digital files, along with printing and installation instructions. ready2print exhibitions are suitable for display in schools, synagogues, churches, universities, libraries and community centers around […]
The Illinois Holocaust Museum’s literature-based teaching trunk program provides K – 12 educators with a wide array of resources for classroom units on character education, human rights, the Holocaust and/or genocide. […]