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Holocaust Resources - Gale in Context High School
Holocaust Resources - Gale in Context High School
Students must use our Library ID to access these articles. Should students need the library ID, they simply need to ask a teacher or Mrs. Arthur, the VHS Media Specialist. Parents may contact Mrs. Arthur @ karthur@valpo.k12.in.us
Use the dropdown arrow to the right for links to the resources.
A Life's Mission: The Life and Work of Ernst Kisch- by Kevin Ostoyich, Valparaiso University
In advance of International Holocaust Remembrance Day, AICGS presents the story of a Viennese doctor who was released from concentration camps before the full horrors of the Holocaust, only to later die at the hands of the North Koreans. His is a story of perseverance, hope, and compassion. - From the American Institute of Contemporary German Studies (AICGS), Johns Hopkins University
Elke Zell Bowman, former English and German teacher for Valparaiso High School, published her book, Enduring Shame, in 2020. We encourage all students and staff to learn about her story. Click the image of the book to learn more! Please visit the media center and check out a copy today!
From the publisher:
One Woman's Journey from Post-war Germany to the American Dream! Elke Zell Bowman was born in 1945, on the eve of Nazi Germany’s collapse. Enduring Shame tells her story—beginning at an orphanage where she was sent as an infant and continuing through the difficult years in post-war Germany to a life in the United States where she finally found a home and country.We follow Elke as she navigates the harsh conditions of the orphanage, her escapades as a rebellious young girl with a passion for poetry, and shocking reunion with her birth mother in the United States. Instead of finding love and salvation with her mother and half-sister, Elke is met with a loveless and merciless woman bent on shaming her daughter into subservience.Through her inner strength and commitment to survive, young Elke finds the care and nourishment she has yearned for in the love of another half-sister and in school under the mentorship of a school teacher—the profession Elke herself pursues when she leaves her mother and begins a new life in America.Elke is a retired high school teacher who taught English and German in Indiana for thirty-five years.
Ted Talks: Ideas Worth Sharing
A Holocaust Survivor's Blueprint for Happiness
How the Magic of Kindness Helped Me Survive the Holocaust
Recommended Films for High School Students
Recommended Films for High School Students
Students must sign in with their school Google account to access the recommended films. The films recommended carry a rating of PG-13.
Use the dropdown arrow to the right for links to the films.
Anne Frank - 2001 (PG-13/TV-14)
The Zookeeper's Wife (PG-13)
Life is Beautiful (PG-13)
The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler (TV-PG)
PBS Documentary by Ken Burns: The US and the Holocaust - This link will take students to the PBS website. Viewers are advised that the film contains graphic images.
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - The 1936 Olympics
Learn more about the significance of the 1936 Olympics held in Berlin by clicking the link above.
When people close to us choose to share their experiences, and we choose to listen, we gain a more complete understanding of historical events that we traditionally learn about through textbooks. When we take the time to really listen, our sense of empathy grows.
Our own Mrs. Harris, VHS English 9 teacher, encourages all of us to view the interview of her childhood friend's grandmother, Franka Neufeld.
Mrs. Harris shares:
The interview is 37 minutes and covers her experiences before, during, and after the camp. She was in Auschwitz, Waldelust, and Bergen- Belsen. She was the only member of her family to survive. She is the grandmother of my childhood best friend Miriam. I spent many weekends, holidays, and celebrations with this family. Franka and her husband Bill were both Holocaust survivors, and the only members of their families to survive.
As you watch, think about this year's theme, Holocaust Remembrance for Dignity and Human Rights and how Franka's post-war experience brought further challenge and heartbreak to her life.
Thank you for sharing Franka's story, Mrs. Harris.
Below is an interactive timeline provided by Yad Vesham: The World Holocaust Remembrance Center.
Below is a collection of books and resources available to students, teachers, and parents for perusal. The list consists of historical fiction and non-fiction books we have in our collection, and external websites. To view the collection in full, users must log in. Login credentials for students are their student ID# and five letter password.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - The Path to Nazi Genocide - Film
Disclaimer from USHMM - This film contains difficult subject matter and imagery. Some segments may not be appropriate for younger audiences. Learn about resources for educators using this film here.
Click on the arrow in each image to learn more!
Pages from the original handwritten diary of Anne Frank. The original diary, along with other letters and documents written by Frank are on exhibit at the Anne Frank House, in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
© Frank Fonds–Basel/Anne Frank House/Getty Images.
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Warsaw Jews are herded into a ghetto. Early in the war, when the Polish city of Warsaw wasoccupied by the Germans, the city's 450,000 Jews were herded into a ghetto.
“Warsaw Jews Herded into Ghetto.”
Discovery Education, IRC,2005,
app.discoveryeducation.com/learn/player/8779cd7d-eebb-4cde-a4d4-917791129f68
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Books confiscated by this group of young Nazis were taken to huge fire in the Operplatz to be burned in Berlin. On May 10, 1933 the Operplatz, now the Bebelplatz was one site of the infamous book burnings by the Nazis. It's estimated that 20,000 books were burned. The authors included Erich Maria Remarque, Thomas Mann, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud, Albert Einstein, Heinrich Hein (who had earlier written, "Who burns books, will in the end also burn people." )
“Nazis Taking Books for Burning.” Discovery Education, Corbis, app.discoveryeducation.com/learn/player/af666c5d-7e63-4f2c-a9e0-45d42d036e0f.
Israeli Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel (1928- ); upon his receiving the Nobel Prize, Wiesel,
a Holocaust survivor, stated: "The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of
art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the
opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. Elie Wiesel has dedicated his entire life to working
and fighting for rights of all individuals, social justice, and social awareness and activism.
“Israeli Nobel Peace Prize Winner Elie Wiesel.” Discovery Education, Corbis, 2006,app.discoveryeducation.com/learn/player/6eeb4a5e-ff8f-46e6-9678-c1c817183b47.
Top Nazi leaders on trial at the International War Crimes Tribunal, held at Nuremberg, 1945-1946. In the front row, left to right, are Hermann Goering, Rudolf Hess, Joachim von Ribbentrop, General Wilhelm Keitel, and Alfred Rosenberg. Back row, left to right: Admiral Karl Donitz, Admiral Erich Raeder, Hans Frank, and Fritz Sauckel. Goering, Ribbentrop, Keitel, Rosenberg, Frank, and Sauckel were sentenced to death, Hess and Raeder to life imprisonment, and Dönitz to ten years' imprisonment.
“Top Nazi Leaders on Trial at Nuremberg.” Discovery Education,IRC,2005,app.discoveryeducation.com/learn/player/4df81ef3-f221-4d39-a3e2-2567999a65f2
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A map showing the growth of Nazi Germany by September 1939. Once Hitler had fi rm controlover a renewed Germany and had found that the other powers were willing to appease him, Hitler became more aggressive. In 1936 he reclaimed the demilitarized Rhineland, violating the treaties of Versailles and Locarno; in 1938 he invaded Austria and annexed the Sudetenland; in March 1939 he occupied the Czech lands, and in August of that year he signed a non-aggression plan with Russia which included a clause that divided eastern Europe into German and Russian zones. Then he conquered Poland in September 1939.
“Map: Nazi Germany by September 1939..”Discovery Education,IRC, 2005, app.discoveryeducation.com/learn/player/3b19a677-e015-4945-a04f-eb7abb820ae3.
Millions of Jews and others died in German concentration camps during WW II.
“Concentration camp inmates (2).”
Discovery Education, Library of Congress, app.discoveryeducation.com/learn/player/9e7977e5-d296-4013-ab24-a8118b61b4d7
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This prisoner, one of the first to be freed from Wobbelin, a concentration camp near Berlin, is overcome and bursts into tears.
“One of the First Freed From a Concentration Camp.” Discovery Education. IRC, 2005,app.discoveryeducation.com/learn/player/17f209aa-7606-431d-b7d8-b79e3263efa6
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Survivors of Dachau, a concentration camp in Germany.
"Holocaust Survivors at Concentration Camp in Dachau, Germany." Gale In Context Online Collection, Gale, 2010. Gale In Context: High School, link.gale.com/apps/doc/PC4295800410/SUIC?u=valp89311&sid=bookmark-SUIC&xid=aabfabc3. Accessed 23 Jan. 2022.
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