Lakeview High School Library provides recommended print and online materials. A sample list appears below:
Echoes & Reflections, in partnership with ADL, Shoah Foundation & Yad Vashem, provides professional learning opportunities and classroom content for effective Holocaust instruction and for resonant themes of today. Materials on genocide, Contemporary Antisemitism and a new group of engaging student learning activities for Explore the Past, Shape the Future are available.
Facing History and Ourselves: Educator Resources
Facing History and Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and students to stand up to bigotry and hate. Curriculum resources include wide of flexible, multimedia materials, from primary sources and streaming videos to teaching strategies, lesson plans, and full units.
Holocaust Collection – Footnote.com
The National Archives & Records Administration and Footnote.com released over one million Holocaust-related records, including names and photos in a searchable database. Concentration camp registers and documents plus the Ardelia Hall Collection of records on Nazi looting of Jewish possessions and art are provided.
IWitness (from USC Shoah Foundation) is an online application giving educators and students ability to search, watch, and learn from more than 1,000 video testimonies of Holocaust survivors and other witnesses. Includes access to the Willesden Project, combining testimony, technology and music to reshape Holocaust education.
Museum Fellowship Teaching Resources
Archived version of site offering thematically grouped lesson plans and book reviews by genre. Materials were submitted by previous Museum Teacher Fellows of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
New York Times Learning Network Resources: The Holocaust
Lesson plans and links to articles from NYT historical archives.
PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators
PRISM, a peer-reviewed journal published by the Azrieli Graduate School of Yeshiva University, offers educators a practical, scholarly resource on teaching the Holocaust at high school, college and graduate school levels.
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
An overview of people and events in the Holocaust through photographs, documents, art, music, movies, and literature. From Florida Center for Instructional Technology at the College of Education, University of South Florida.
Teaching the Holocaust with Primary Sources
Themed resource set from Eastern Illinois University uses Library of Congress primary source documents on the Holocaust.
Telling Their Stories: Oral History Archives Project
San Francisco Urban School students conducted and filmed interviews with Bay Area Holocaust survivors in their homes. Students transcribed interviews; created movie files online; and provided additional research links.
The Museum’s citizen history project lets students & adults uncover what ordinary people around the country could have known about the Holocaust from reading their local newspapers in the years 1933–1945.
USHMM Teaching Materials and Resources
USHMM Teach section offers Teaching Guidelines, Holocaust Encyclopedia, Lesson Plans, Videos, Podcasts, Poster Sets, Distance Learning Resources, Primary Source Collections. See Holocaust overview film The Path to Nazi Genocide (38 min.) available online.
The Museum now has a presence on YouTube with a growing number of educational videos that can be downloaded.
Visual History Archive Online (VHA Online)
Audiovisual testimonies are provided through the USC Shoah Foundation. Searches may be conducted by Experience Groups, People, Place or Index. Biographical information about each interviewee is included.
Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive
An extensive repository of interviews is available through the University of Michigan Dearborn’s Mardigian Library.
Educational materials are available in English including lesson plans, ceremonies, testimonies, primary documents, photographs, maps, a concise Holocaust Encyclopedia and historical timeline. The International School for Holocaust Studies publishes an e-Newsletter for Holocaust Educators. The new Video Toolbox offers excellent teacher support.