Summary:
The following website showcases stories from victims of the Holocaust. The website gives the victims a chance to tell their stories and to help their memories and the memories of their deceased loved ones live on so that they will not be forgotten.
Commentary:
This website can be used for students to research a specific person that was a victim of the Holocaust. Each student will have to choose one victim and then give a 2-3 minute oral summary of their victim's story in front of the class.
Summary:
This website is dedicated to the stories of people who put their own lives in danger to help Jewish people escape from the German occupied countries. The stories are interviews of individuals who survived and give examples of how they were able to do what they did. This website lends a sense of moral decency in the midst of so much horror.
Commentary:
This website can be used for students to research a specific person that was a victim of the Holocaust. Each student will have to choose one rescuer and then give a 2-3 minute oral summary of their rescuer's story in front of the class.
Summary:
This webpage is dedicated to a letter from soldier who was present at Dachau on its day of liberation. During the late 1980's his daughter, a journalist, asked him to write his memories from that day. Although it is not extremely long, reading the words from an American's point of view of the grave injustices found in a concentration camp is quite interesting.
Commentary:
Each student will be responsible for writing a letter to a person of their choosing (family, friend, classmate) describing what they have learned about the Holocaust and more specifically concentration camps.
Summary:
At this website the story of Judy Cohen is found. Cohen goes into detailed description of her experences during World War II beginning before the Holocaust and ending with being liberated from a concentration camp. There are other stories also available at the website.
Commentary:
Have the class divide up into a couple of groups and then read these survivor stories among themselves. They then should implement the think-pair-share strategy. Each group will give a small report on their survivor's story to the entire class, including what their group found most interesting from the story.
Summary:
On the following website, Harold's Story is told through a interactive map. The map tells his story of the Holocaust and even includes two sound bites and pictures.
Commentary:
The students will have to draw maps of what they imagine the layout of a concentration camp would have been like.
Victim
Summary:
The following website showcases stories from victims of the Holocaust. The website gives the victims a chance to tell their stories and to help their memories and the memories of their deceased loved ones live on so that they will not be forgotten.
Commentary:
This website can be used for students to research a specific person that was a victim of the Holocaust. Each student will have to choose one victim and then give a 2-3 minute oral summary of their victim's story in front of the class.
Children of the Holoacaust
ADL. (2001). Stories of survival - children of the holocaust. Retrieved from http://www.adl.org/children_holocaust/children_main1.asp
Rescuer
Summary:
This website is dedicated to the stories of people who put their own lives in danger to help Jewish people escape from the German occupied countries. The stories are interviews of individuals who survived and give examples of how they were able to do what they did. This website lends a sense of moral decency in the midst of so much horror.
Commentary:
This website can be used for students to research a specific person that was a victim of the Holocaust. Each student will have to choose one rescuer and then give a 2-3 minute oral summary of their rescuer's story in front of the class.
Portraits of Moral Courage
Block, G., & Drucker, M. (1992). Rescuers' biographies. Retrieved from http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shtetl/righteous/rescuedex.html
Liberator
Summary:
This webpage is dedicated to a letter from soldier who was present at Dachau on its day of liberation. During the late 1980's his daughter, a journalist, asked him to write his memories from that day. Although it is not extremely long, reading the words from an American's point of view of the grave injustices found in a concentration camp is quite interesting.
Commentary:
Each student will be responsible for writing a letter to a person of their choosing (family, friend, classmate) describing what they have learned about the Holocaust and more specifically concentration camps.
A Letter on Liberation
Belcher, G. E. (1985, April 20). Letter to my daughter. Retrieved from http://www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/witnesses/LetterEng.html
Survivors
Summary:
At this website the story of Judy Cohen is found. Cohen goes into detailed description of her experences during World War II beginning before the Holocaust and ending with being liberated from a concentration camp. There are other stories also available at the website.
Commentary:
Have the class divide up into a couple of groups and then read these survivor stories among themselves. They then should implement the think-pair-share strategy. Each group will give a small report on their survivor's story to the entire class, including what their group found most interesting from the story.
A Personal Reflection: Judy Cohen
Cohen, J. (2002). Personal reflections - in camps. Retrieved from http://www3.sympatico.ca/mighty1/personal/judy.htm
Summary:
On the following website, Harold's Story is told through a interactive map. The map tells his story of the Holocaust and even includes two sound bites and pictures.
Commentary:
The students will have to draw maps of what they imagine the layout of a concentration camp would have been like.
Harold's Story: An Interactive Map
Gordon, H. (n.d.). Harold's story. Retrieved from http://remember.org/harold/map.html
Websites