Museum Fellowship Teaching Resources

The following lesson plans and book reviews have been submitted by Museum Teacher Fellows of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The materials may be used by educators seeking meaningful educational resources about the Holocaust. Lesson plans have been successfully field-tested and include additional online support documents. This website was first introduced at the 2004 Conference of the American Library Association.

Lesson Plans

Book Reviews

• European Antisemitism in the 15th -18th Centuries
• Introduction to the Rich European Jewish Culture
• Life Prior to Kristallnacht (1933-1938)

• Badenheim, 1939 (Appelfeld)
• Beloved (Morrison)
• Nightfather (Friedman)

• Getting Our Facts Straight! Holocaust Group Research Projects
• Guidelines for Teaching About Holocaust
• Introduction to the History of the Holocaust
• Jewish Stars of David 

• The Island on Bird Street (Orlev)
• Rose Blanche (Innocenti)
• The Shadow Children (Schnur)

• Euthanasia and the T4 Program
• Governing National Socialist Germany
• Recognizing Propaganda/Bias
• The Reichstag Fire
• Triumph of the Will

• Assignment: Rescue: An Autobiography (Fry)
• Maus: A Survivor's Tale (Spiegelman)
• On Burning Ground: A Son’s Memoir (Skakun)
• A Special Fate: Chiune Sugihara (Gold)
• Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps (Warren)

• Personal Response to the European Ghetto
• A Response to Chaim Rumkowski's "Give Me Your Children" Speech
• Spiritual, Educational, and Physical Resistance in the Warsaw Ghetto

• Anti-Semitism and Schooling Under the Third Reich (Wegner)
• Between Dignity and Despair (Kaplan)
• Escape From Sobibor (Rashke)
• Hitler's Jewish Soldiers (Rigg)
• Inside the Vicious Heart (Abzug)
• The Origins of Nazi Genocide (Friedlander)
• Quakers and Nazis (Schmitt)

• Nazi Deportations of Hungarian Jews
• Life and Death in the Camps
• The Wannsee Conference 

• Bearing Witness: Teaching About the Holocaust (Greenbaum)
• The Holocaust (Breibart)

• Chiune Sugihara
• Using Poetic Images to Initiate the Exploration of Resistance During the Holocaust
• Walk a Quote: A Lesson Based Upon the Sugihara Story

• Admitting the Holocaust: Collected Essays (Langer)
• The Holocaust in American Life (Novick)
• Is the Holocaust Unique? Perspectives on Comparative Genocide (Rosenbaum)
• Rethinking the Holocaust (Bauer)

• The Butterfly Project
• Children in Hiding During the Holocaust
• The Diary of Anne Frank

• Am I a Murderer? (Perechodnik) 
• The Good Old Days: The Holocaust as Seen by Its Perpetrators and Bystanders (Klee)

• Analyzing and Evaluating Holocaust Literature
• Holocaust Education and World Languages
• Introduction to the Graphic Novel Maus
• Major Holocaust Themes in Elie Wiesel's Memoir, Night
• Night: A Study in Compassion and Courage
• Salvaged Pages: Writing as a Response to Literature
• Terrible Things
• Using The Complete Maus to Enhance the Student's Understanding of Maus

• All But My Life (Klein)
• Auschwitz and After (Delbo)
• The Cage (Sender)
• Dry Tears: The Story of a Lost Childhood (Tec)
• No Pretty Pictures: A Child of War (Lobel)
• Parallel Journeys (Ayer)
• A Promise to Remember (Berenbaum)
• The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness (Wiesenthal)

• Aftermath and Universal Lessons of the Holocaust
• Ethical Dilemmas in Teaching the Holocaust

• Images from the Holocaust: A Literature Anthology (Brown)

• Comparative Genocides
• New World, Old Evils: Latin America and the Holocaust

• A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (Power)

• Hidden Children and the Holocaust: A Lesson and Pledge for Action
• In Hiding: A Choiceless Choice of the Holocaust
• “Let me sing a carefree song once more:” Poetry of Hidden Children

• From Racism to Genocide: Anthropology in the Third Reich (Schafft)
• Medicine, Ethics, and the Third Reich (Michalczyk)
• Racial Hygiene: Medicine Under the Nazis (Proctor)

For more information or to contribute to this site, please contact:

Margaret Lincoln, Ph.D.
Museum Teacher Fellow 2002-2003
Lakeview School District
Battle Creek, MI 49015
E-mail: mlincoln@lakeviewspartans.org
Tel: (269) 565-3730 

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Last modified: 10/01/14