Night

Night by Elie Weisel - Audiobook available in CHS library

Poetry (choose 2)

• "Reveille" by Primo Levi
• "Shema" by Primo Levi
• "The Survivor" by Primo Levi
• "What Would You Do?" by Emtithal Mahmoud
• "Grass" by Carl Sandburg
• "We Wear the Mask" by Paul Lawrence Dunbar

Short Fiction

• To be determined

Extension Text

• Maus by Art Spiegelman (graphic novel) - Available in the CHS book room, Part 2 Available in the CHS library

Historical Nonfiction

• "Hitler's Speech, Munich, 1923" by Adolph Hitler Including April 10, 13, 24, 27, May 1, August 1 and September 12, 1923
• Excerpt from Hiroshima Diary by Hachiya
• "Indifference" speech at the White House by Elie Wiesel Video

Contemporary Nonfiction

• "First They Came for the Socialists" by Martin Neimoller
• "Bystanders to Genocide" by Samantha Power (section one, and last section if time allows)
• "The Scourge of Genocide: Issues Facing Humanity Today and Tomorrow" by Samuel Totten (excerpt) (full text)

Technical Nonfiction

• "A Wound That Will Never Be Healed" (bottom of page) by Elie Weisel (interview with Bob Costas)

Multimedia

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website for photographs Learning materials and resources

The library also recommends:

Documentaries/Movies:

• "Boy in the Striped Pajamas" (movie)
• "Life is Beautiful" (movie)
• "Schlindler's List" (movie)
• "Paperclips" (documentary)
• "The Last Days" (documentary)
• "Auschwitz" (documentary)
• "Elie Wiesel" (PBS interview)
• "Final Solution Part 1," "Final Solution Part 2," and "Genocide" episodes from World at War (documentary)
• "The Path to Nazi Genocide" by USHMM
• "One Survivor Remembers" by HBO and the USHMM (documentary)
• "The Devil's Arithmetic" (movie)
• "Secrets of the Dead: Escape from Auschwitz (documentary)
• Escape from a Nazi Death Camp (documentary, Sobidor uprising)
• "Holocaust Escape Tunnel" (documentary, Vilna, Lithuania)

Short Videos:

• VR Model of Auschwitz from BBC News (video news clip is 45 seconds, also a short article)(Alternate 1:30 video clip with additional VR footage; audio in German)
• "Interview with Elie Weisel" (part 1) Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 by Elie Weisel and Oprah Winfrey

Websites:

• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Elie Wiesel page (with brief bio, links, and timelines) from the USHMM
• The Holocaust Year by Year from the BBC
• Why Did Ordinary People Commit Atrocities in the Holocaust? from the BBC
• The Nazi Racial State from the BBC
• Auschwitz: 70 Years Since Camps Liberated from the BBC (includes old newsreel footage)
• Auschwitz 3D Panorama VR images
• Holocaust Teacher Resource Center
• A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust

Articles:

• Night from Novels for Students
• Night from Literature and Its Times
• Elie Weisel from Major 21st Century Writers
• Maus from St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture
• Maus from Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
• Art Spiegelman from Major 21st Century Writers
• The Holocaust from World War II Reference Library
• The Holocaust from Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction
• Holocaust: A Pictorial History from the Encyclopedia Judaica
• Elie Weisel Obituary from The New York Times
• The Tattooist of Auschwitz from BBC
• Scholastic Holocaust Reader magazine
• The Pyramid of Hate from Anti-Defamation League and Survivors of the Shoah
• USHMM Identification Cards (each museum visitor is given the story of an individual) from US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Books:

• Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne (fiction, Auschwitz)
• The Extra by Kathryn Lasky (fiction, gypsy)
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry (fiction, Danish resistance)
• The War Within These Walls by Aline Sax (fiction, Warsaw Uprising)
• Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein (fiction, Nazi interrogation)
• Rose Under Fire by Elizabeth Wein (fiction, Ravensbruck)
• The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen (fiction, concentration camp)
• The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak (fiction, Germany)
• Beyond Courage: The Untold Story of Jewish Resistance During the Holocaust by Doreen Rappaport (nonfiction)
• I Have Lived a Thousand Years by Livia Bitton-Jackson (biography, Auschwitz)
• The Boy Who Dared by Susan Campbell Bartoletti (biography, German resistance)
• Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank (biography, hidden)
• Eleanor's Story: An American Girl in Hitler's Germany by Eleanor Garner (biography, Berlin)
• The Endless Steppe by Esther Hautzig (biography, Siberia)
• In the Garden of Beasts by Erik Larson (biography, Berlin)
• The Boy on the Wooden Box by Leon Leyson (biography, a boy from Schlindler's list)
• Hanna's Suitcase by Karen Levine (biography, Auschwitz)
• Branded by the Pink Triangle by Ken Setterstrom (nonfiction, persecution of homosexuals)
• T4 by Anne Clare LeZotte (fiction, verse, persecution/euthanasia of disabled)
• The Wave by Todd Strasser (fiction, high school experiment on nazism)
• Hidden Like Anne Frank: 14 True Stories of Survival by Marcel Prins (biographies)

• "Interview with Elie Weisel" (part 1) Part 2 Part 3 Part 4 Part 5 Part 6 by Elie Weisel and Oprah Winfrey
• "Guernica, 1937" (painting) by Pablo Picasso