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 Phsysical 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)