Holocaustbbctaskforce - Holocaust Education

Canadian Resources:

General Resources:

The Asper Foundation Human Rights and Holocaust Studies Program
(www.humanrights.asperfoundation.com)

The program objectives are to promote respect for others and sensitize Canadian high school students to the consequences of racism through a specially designed education program. This program, which started in 1997 in Winnipeg, Canada, is now a national initiative that is inclusive of students from many backgrounds.

Canada Responds to the Holocaust 1944-1945
(http://www.canadaresponds.ca/)

This presentation examines the Canadian confrontation with the Holocaust in the last year of the war. It follows Canadian soldiers, journalists and war artists and examines what they experienced and communicated. In the last section, it looks at the home front, and tries to determine what, if any, impact the discovery of the Holocaust had on Canadian attitudes and policies.

The St. Louis Era: Looking Back, Moving Forward – Audio proceedings
(http://www.stlouis2009conference.ca/pages/English/Sessions/Audio_Recordings)

Teacher's Guides:

"Letter to a Holocaust Survivor", from Benchmarks of Historical Thinking
(http://www.histori.ca/benchmarks/tasks/view.php?taskId=60)

Reconstructing a Survivor's Life After Genocide
(http://www.histori.ca/benchmarks/tasks/view.php?taskId=37)

PDF: “Ten Marks and a Train Ticket: A Teacher’s Manual”, by Kira McCarthy

This teacher's guide is the companion to the League for Human Rights of B'nai Brith Canada's first publication in its Holocaust and Hope Testimonial Series. The authors of this book, Susy Goldstein, Gina Hamilton and Wendy Share, tell the story of their father’s escape to freedom, a child of the Kindertransport. In January 1939, Benno’s parents sent him and his brother, then just 9 and 13 years old, on a train departing Germany. Four months later they arrived in England as part of the Kindertransport. Like the majority of the 10,000 children saved by this rescue effort, they never saw their parents again.

The Mark and Gail Appel Program in Holocaust and Antiracism Education - "Learning from the Past, Teaching for the Future"- is an initiative of The Centre for Jewish Studies and The Canadian Centre for German and European Studies at York University in Toronto, Canada.

Canadian Centre for Genocide Education: Global Citizenship for the 21st Century

The mission of the Canadian Centre for Genocide Education is to encourage teachers to teach the lessons of genocide - the importance of tolerance, of upholding human rights and democracy, and of helping others in need - and to help prepare them to effectively communicate those lessons in the classroom so that students will be challenged to think critically about the world that they live in and their role in it and be empowered to affect positive change as global citizens in the 21st Century.

Policy Documents:

PDF: Diversity and Equity in Education: Holocaust Education, from Manitoba Ministry of Education

PDF: "Opportunities and Challenges: Defining the Quebec Touch in Holocaust Education" article from Canadian Diversity Magazine

International Resources:

Classroom Resources:

Educational Materials, The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme
(http://www.un.org/holocaustremembrance/educational.shtml)

Educational Resources, Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, University of Minnesota
(http://www.chgs.umn.edu/educational/)

Echoes and Reflections: A Multimedia Curriculum on the Holocaust
(http://www.echoesandreflections.org/)

Holocaust Lesson Plans and Curricula, Holocaust Teacher Resource Centre
(http://www.holocaust-trc.org/lesson.htm)

The Museum of Tolerance’s teacher resources (http://www.museumoftolerance.com/site/c.tmL6KfNVLtH/b.5052463/k.AE91/Teacher_Resources.htm)

Resources from the Mémorial de la Shoah(http://www.memorialdelashoah.org/b_content/getContentFromTopNavAction.do?navId=49)

A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust
(http://fcit.usf.edu/HOLOCAUST/default.htm)

TES Connect Teachers' Resources
(http://www.tes.co.uk/resourcehub.aspx)

The United Nations Cyberschoolbus: Remembrance and Beyond, Commemorating the Holocaust
(http://www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/holocaust/index.asp)

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – Education, for teachers
(http://www.ushmm.org/education/foreducators/)

Best Practices and Policy Documents:

PDF: Combating Intolerance, Exclusion and Violence through Holocaust Education Proceedings, UNESCO

PDF: Education on the Holocaust and on Anti-Semitism: An Overview and Analysis of Educational Approaches, from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)

Guidelines for Teaching about the Holocaust, Anti-Defamation League
(http://www.adl.org/education/holocaust/holocaust_guidelines.asp)

How to Teach about the Holocaust in Schools
(http://www.holocausttaskforce.org/education/guidelines-for-teaching/how-to-teach-about-the-holocaust.html)

Learning from History: The Nazi Era and the Holocaust in German Education
(http://www.holocaust-education.de/)

League for Educational Awareness of the Holocaust
(http://www.leahforkids.com/)

PDF: Preparing Holocaust Memorial Days: Suggestions for Educators

PDF: Remembering the past and preventing crimes against humanity, a seminar of the Council of Europe

PDF: Revised Guidelines on Visiting Holocaust-Related Sites

PDF: Teaching about the Holocaust and the history of genocide in the 21st century , from the 90th European Teachers' Seminar of the Council of Europe

What to Teach about the Holocaust
(http://www.holocausttaskforce.org/education/guidelines-for-teaching/what-to-teach-about-the-holocaust.html)

Teaching Through Art:

Learning the Holocaust Through Art
(http://www.holocaust-education.net/home.asp?langid=1&submenu)

Other Resources for Holocaust Education and Educators:

Council of Holocaust Educators
(http://www.che-nj.org/)

USC Shoah Foundation Institute
(http://college.usc.edu/vhi/)