The foundation of any lesson, unit, or course should rest on a clear set of rationales (Totten and Feinberg, 2001). A strong rationale provides focus and promotes understanding of the Holocaust as a ...

The Museum is located on the National Mall, just south of Independence Avenue, SW, between 14th Street and Raoul Wallenberg Place in Washington, DC. The nearest Metro stop is Smithsonian on the Orange ...

The Programs on Religion and the Holocaust fosters scholarship, teaching, and reflection on the complex ethical, theological, and historical questions raised by the Holocaust. The programs engage ...

This is the story of one family’s experiences during the Holocaust from the perspective of Daniel, a fictional boy growing up in Nazi Germany. Daniel’s character represents the real experiences of ...

One Survivor Remembers is Gerda Weissmann’s account of surviving the Holocaust. This film was produced in 1995 by HBO and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Transcript [Text on screen] In ...

This lesson is designed as both a two-day and four-day unit. In both versions, students analyze how and why the Nazis and their collaborators persecuted and murdered Jews as well as other people ...

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies supports monographs, edited volumes, and digital projects and publishes them in association with scholarly nonprofit presses.

This three-minute video explains Holocaust denial and the different forms it takes. Transcript Holocaust denial is a form of antisemitism. The only reason to deny the Holocaust is to inculcate and ...

This lesson is designed to engage students in understanding the individuality of Jewish lives affected by or lost in the Holocaust and the cumulative effects of the Holocaust on communities. After ...

These educational Holocaust videos explore the experiences of Holocaust survivors, the Museum’s collections, and Holocaust history.

Antisemitism is prejudice against or hatred of Jews. The Holocaust, the state-sponsored persecution and murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, is history’s most extreme example ...

It’s 1938. In Eastern Europe, life is bustling for three young Jews growing up in their vibrant Jewish community. Miriam Kabacznik, Leon Kahn, and Zvi Michaeli. But soon, the Nazi threat emerges on ...