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Below are student and teacher links to resources, in addition to other Holocaust museums and related organizations.
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – Includes a timeline, personal accounts and photographs. The USHMM website also presents special exhibitions.
- USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia
- Remember.org – Includes survivor testimonies, a large collection of photographs and other exhibitions.
- The Nizkor Project – A project dedicated to countering Holocaust Denial
- Jewish Virtual Library – Holocaust Wing – A large Holocaust encyclopedia with photos, a glossary, and maps.
- The Holocaust Chronicle – The electronic version of the 800 page The Holocaust Chronicle published in 2000.
- The Auschwitz Album – A collection of nearly 200 pictures that documents the killing process (except the killing) at Auschwitz-Birkenau. (also available in Hebrew)
- BBC Archive – The Holocaust – a collection of programs and documents of personal accounts from witnesses to the Final Solution
- Holocaust Education and Archive Research Team – A contribution of independent Holocaust researchers
- Mosaic of Victims: In Depth – An in-depth examination of the non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust
- Remember Us: The Holocaust Bnai Mitzvah Project – A Project which invites children preparing for Bar/Bat Mitzvah to connect with the memory of children lost in the Holocaust before they could be called to the Torah
- Yad Vashem Photo Archive – A 138,000+ archive of photos from the Holocaust, searchable by keyword
- Roman Vishniac Collection – A collection of over 40,000 photos of Jewish life in Eastern Europe between the two world wars.
- A Young Students Introduction to the Holocaust – A film by Lenny Neil Friedman
- State of New Jersey Department of Education – New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education
- A Teachers Guide to the Holocaust – (from the Florida Center for Instructional Technology) includes a timeline, who’s who, arts and culture of the 1920’s/30’s, teacher resources and student activity ideas.
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – Covers questions asked by students, guidelines for teaching the Holocaust, lessons and activities.
- Remember.org – Includes articles about women in the Holocaust, what material to teach students at various grade levels. Also includes a bibliography of Holocaust encyclopedias, fiction, memoirs, diaries, poetry/art, and literary criticism.
- The Nizkor Project – A project dedicated to countering Holocaust Denial
- Lessonplanet.com Nearly 60 lesson plans for teachers using the book, Night by Elie Wiesel.
- Lessonplanet.com Over 300 lesson plans for teachers using Anne Frank’s diary.
- University of Minnesota – Curriculum Models
- Echoes and Reflections A Holocaust curriculum program developed by The Anti-Defamation League, USC Shoah Foundation, and Yad Vashem
- Genocide of European Roma and Sinti
- 70 Voices Explore different elements of the Holocaust through poems, diaries and writings from those at the centre of it: the victims, survivors, perpetrators, and other witnesses
- The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – America’s national memorial dedicated to the victims of the Holocaust while confronting hate, preventing genocide, and promoting human dignity.
- Yad Vashem – Israel’s national memorial to Holocaust victims.
- Simon Wiesenthal Center – Based in Los Angelos, the SWC is an international Jewish humanitarian organization dedicated to teaching the lessons of the Holocaust while confronting contemporary anti-semitism, hate, and terrorism.
- USC Shoah Foundation Institute – Houses nearly 52,000 survivor interviews.
- Museum of Jewish Heritage – Located in Lower Manhattan, this living memorial boasts three permanent exhibits in addition to other special, traveling exhibits.
- Anne Frank House – Located in Prisengracht, Amsterdam, the Anne Frank House preserves the house in which the Frank family was hidden. In addition, the museum highlights all forms of discrimination and persecution.
- Anne Frank House in 3D – Take a 3D tour of the Anne Frank house.
- C.A.N.D.L.E.S Holocaust Museum and Education Center – Dedicated to the children and twins who were experimented upon by the “Angel of Death,” Dr. Josef Mengele in Auschwitz.
- Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center – Located in Philadelphia, this archives is dedicated to collecting, preserving and organizing the records of Greater Philadelphia’s Jewish community.
- Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors of Philadelphia – Located in Philadelphia, this organization is dedicated to preserving the memory of the martyrs and victims of the Holocaust.
- University of Minnesota – Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
- Richard Stockton College – Holocaust Resource Center
- West Chester University – Holocaust Education Center
- Gratz College – Holocaust Oral History Archive
- Aish.com – Holocaust Studies