Holocaust Education Trunks

Holocaust Education Trunks provide materials and ready-to-use units that vary in readability and format, are grade-appropriate, and are relevant to all learning styles.

• Teacher Reference Books
• Lesson Plans
• Fiction and Non-fiction Books (classroom sets)
• Videos and DVDs; CD-ROMS
• Poetry and Scripts for Plays
• Artifact Kits
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Book Lists

List of 24 books for teaching the Holocaust:

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Age appropriate books for teaching the Holocaust:

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Lesson Plans

Holocaust Mini Unit (6 lesson plans + group project):

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Lesson plan on human rights history and advocacy:

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The Holocaust Education Center held a six-month Zoom Seminar (ending 2021) addressing the teaching  of the Holocaust and contemporary genocide. 

The following section highlights lesson plans, PowerPoint presentations, and additional documents contributed by the participants and speakers during the course of this extensive collaborative experience.

• Letter of Introduction to Educators
• Speakers' Bios
• Introduction: Teaching the Holocaust and Contemporary Genocide (PP)
• Questions and Primary Sources (PP)
• Web Diagram of Holocaust Topics (PP)
• Using Literature's Light to Illuminate the Darkness (PP)
• Poetry Assignments
• Rwanda (PP)
• Female Rescuer in Rwanda (PP)
• Local History and the Holocaust (PP)
• Genocide in Guatemala and Central America (PP)
• 5th Grade (Lesson Plan)
• History of Antisemitism (Lesson Plan)
• Human Rights (Lesson Plan)
• Holocaust Mini-Unit
• La'dor vador (Lesson Plan)
• Terrible Things (Lesson Plan)
• Suitcase Project (Lesson Plan)
• High School Language Arts (Lesson Plan)

Lesson plans from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:

• Resistance
• Rescue and survival in hiding
• Anti-Semitism
• Diaries
• Videography

Other Organizations

Echoes and Reflections: