Links & Resources
An extensive list of categorized links to educational resources on a wide range of topics related to the Holocaust, genocide, and human rights. Students should begin their research through these sites. Teachers can find on-line professional development opportunities as well.
For Educators
- FEATURED CONTENT (SPRING 2024): Cambodia
- Ukraine
- General
- Holocaust Education, Resources, and Lesson Plans
- Best Practices
- Active Citizenship
- Recommended Lessons to Evaluate "Fake News"
- Online Professional Development Centers
- Refugee Crisis
- Syrian Refugee Crisis
- Antisemitism
- Genocide/Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention
- Gendered Violence
- Indigenous Peoples
- Armenia
- Bosnia-Hercegovina
- Rwanda
- Darfur
- Syria
- Rohyinga
- Uyghurs
- Roma Genocide
- Curriculum
- Holocaust Primary Sources
- Survivor Testimonies and Oral Histories
- Scholarly Resources
- Judaism
- Non Jewish Victims of the Nazis
- Museums, Centers, Institutions, Historical Sites
- Case Studies
- Resistance & Rescue
- Anne Frank
- Country-Specific
- Photographic Galleries
- Christian-Jewish Relations
- Violence and Hate Prevention/Education
FEATURED CONTENT (SPRING 2024): Cambodia
- USC Shoah Foundation - Cambodian Genocide
- University of Minnesota - Cambodia
- Association for Asian Studies - Teaching Cambodian Genocide Through Film
- Cambodia Case Study
- Cambodian Genocide Program/ Yale University
- Overview of Cambodian Genocide
- From Sideshow to Genocide: Stories of the Cambodian Holocaust Memorial Foundation of Illinois
- The Digital Archive of Cambodian Holocaust Survivors
- Tuol Sleng and the Cambodian Genocide: Research Help
Ukraine
- War Crimes Watch Ukraine
- Crisis in Ukraine Overview
- USHMM: “How the War in Ukraine is Shaped by its Past”
- Alight: Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Relief
- American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC)
- Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS)
- Jewish Federations of North America (JDC)
- Medical Teams International
- Nova Ukraine
- Team Rubicon
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
- United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
- World Health Organization (WHO)
- Global Giving
- Doctors Without Borders
- United Help Ukraine
- International Medical Corps
- Hope for Ukraine
- Save the Children
- Direct Relief
- World Central Kitchen
- Airbnb
- Red Cross
- NH Charitable Foundation Links
- Centropa lessons
- Educator Resource Ukraine
- Facing History and Ourselves Ukraine
General
- Yahad-In Unum
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Here’s The Powerful Reason People Are Wearing Safety Pins In The U.K.
- IHRA brochure “Marking 15 years of the Stockholm Declaration”
Holocaust Education, Resources, and Lesson Plans
- Echoes and Reflections
- Facing History and Ourselves: Lessons and Units
- USC Shoah Foundation: the Institute for Visual History and Education: Lesson Plans
- USHMM Lesson Plans
- Yad Vashem
- Middle School films
- Centropa Archive
- UNESCO: Holocaust Denial and Distortion
- The Holocaust Survivor Memoirs Program
- The Box of Knowledge Project - Romania
- Prisoner no. 242: Josef Grabowski
- Roma/Sinti
- On-line Learning From History Modules
- International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance
- Institute of Education, University of London
- Jewish – Holocaust Links
- Voices of the Holocaust
- About.com Guide to the Holocaust
- Concentration Camp Guide
- A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust
- Cybrary of the Holocaust
- Ghetto List
- Through the Eyes of Youth: Bedzin Ghetto
- Death Camps
- Interactive Map of Nazi Death Camps
- The Holocaust History Project
- Holocaust/Shoah Third Reich Page
- Maven-The Jewish Portal
- The Nizkor Project
- Women and the Holocaust
- Learning – Voices of the Holocaust
- Center For Holocaust Education - German site, English language
- The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education
- Holocaust Education Foundation, Inc.
- Holocaust & Genocide Studies
- Social Studies School Service - Holocaust Studies
- Teaching the Holocaust through Stamps
- YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
- Gerda Weissmann Klein
- Echoes and Reflections
- Women and the Holocaust
- Melancholia: Remembering Angels – Samuel Bak’s Paintings
- The “1939” Club
- Sarah’s Attic For Elementary Students
- Teaching about the Holocaust: For Teachers
- New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education
- The Holocaust Chronicle
- World Memory Project
- Midwest Center for Holocaust Center for Education
- Ghetto Fighters House
- NH Holocaust Memorial
- Lublin, Poland
- UNESCO
Best Practices
- Guidelines for Teaching the Holocaust and Genocide
- USHMM Holocaust Education Guidelines
- USHMM Genocide Education Guideline and Resources
- Ken Burns’ US and the Holocaust lessons
- Best Practices and How to Start
- Vocabulary
- IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism
- Connecticut Guidelines Resource
- Model Curriculum for Human Rights and Genocide
- Florida Educators Resources
- Virtual Holocaust Library
- Cyberbullying Guide
- April is Genocide Awareness Month
Active Citizenship
- Antisemitism Glossary
- Daily Action
- Teaching Tolerance
- Facing History
- Echoes and Reflections
- Southern Poverty Law Center: Ways to Fight Hate
- Careers in Social Work
Recommended Lessons to Evaluate “Fake News”
- NY Times: Evaluating Sources
- How to choose your news
- Center for News Literacy
- Media Education Lab
- Media Education Lab - Propaganda
- MEL - Complete Curriculum
- Fake News
- Project Cora
- School Journalism
- School Library Journal
- Stanford
- Knowledge Quest
- Fact Check
- How to spot fake news
Online Professional Development Centers
- Facing History and Ourselves: Online Learning
- Jewish Partisans Educational Foundation E-Learning Courses
- Yad Vashem Online Courses
- Yad Vashem: Holocaust Education Video Toolbox
- Jewish Partisans Free CEUs
Refugee Crisis
- Helping Kids Understand Refugees
- Embrace Refugees
- Living on One Dollar
- The Choices Program
- Roads to Refuge
- World View for 6-8 grade
- UNHCR
- Amnesty International
- British Red Cross
- Amnesty Intl UK: Everyone Everywhere
- We Were Strangers Too: Middle/High School Lesson
- Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition
- International Institute of New England
- Organization for Refugee and Immigrant Success
- Become an Immigrant Social Worker
Syrian Refugee Crisis
- YouTube overview
- UN High Commissioner on Refugees
- UNICEF
- Nu Day Syria
- International Rescue Committee
- World Vision
- Catholic Relief Services
- International Committee of the Red Cross
- I am Syria
- Syrian Refugees
- Canadian Resettlement
- Mercy Corps
- CNN
- Amnesty International
- OXFAM
Antisemitism
- Defining and Facing Antisemitism on campus
- IHRA Working Definition of Antisemitism
- Rabbi Saks Lessons
- Strategies in Facing Anti-Semitism: An Educational Resource Guide edited by Mark Weitzman and Richelle Budd Caplan [PDF]
- Anti-Defamation League
- Middle East Media Research Institute
- FHAO: Antisemitic incidents: Being an Ally, Advocate, and Activist
- Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism
- Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights
- Holocaust Denial on Trial
- PBS: Father Coughlin
Genocide/Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention
Genocide Awareness and Prevention
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Institute for the Study of Genocide- International Association for Genocide Scholars
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United State Holocaust Memorial Museum Committee on Conscience
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Yale Center for International and Area Studies: Genocide Studies Program
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Auschwitz Institute for Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocity
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AIPG Training Manual for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention
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IHRA brochure “Marking 15 years of the Stockholm Declaration”
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Enough: The Project to End Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
Gendered Violence
Indigenous Peoples
Armenia
- Facing History
- Armenian Genocide
- Armenian National Institute
- Two Day Lesson
- Armenian Genocide: Genocide: Children and Memory
- The Armenian Genocide Museum - Institute
- Armenian Genocide Museum
- FHAO
- Rhode Island Department of Education Resources
- They Shall Not Perish
- Twenty Voices
- Teaching the Armenian Genocide
- 1915 Aghet Documentary
Bosnia-Hercegovina
- Genocide in Bosnia-Hercegovina: A Very Short History
- Center for Peacebuilding from Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Srebrenica Memorial Center
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Bosnia- Herzegovina Case Study
- Bosnian American Genocide Institute & Education Center
- The Betrayal of Srebrenica: Why Did the Massacre Happen? Will it Happen Again?
- Bosnia 1996: From the New York Times
- Srebrenica: A Cry from the Grave
- Frontline: the world’s most wanted man
Rwanda
- Overview of the Genocide in Rwanda and Burundi
- Genocide Archives
- National Unity and Reconciliation Commission
- National Commission for the Fight Against Genocide
- Human Rights Watch-Rwanda
- Never Again Rwanda
- Leaven None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda
- BBC News/ Rwanda: How the genocide happened
- Ghosts of Rwanda
- PBS Frontline: The Triumph of Evil
- Outreach Programme on the Rwandan Genocide and the UN
- Carl Wilkens - World Outside My Shoes
- Kwibuka: Remembering Rwanda
- United Human Rights
- World Without Genocide: Rwanda
Darfur
Syria
- I AM SYRIA
- Illinois University Library: Syrian Conflict Resources
- The White Helmets
- [United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Case Study Syria](United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Case Study Syria:)
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Syria Research Project
Rohyinga
- BBC: What You Need to Know About Rohingya
- Human Rights Watch: Rohingya
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Case Study: Burma
Uyghurs
- PBS News Hour: What is happening with the Uyghurs in China
- Campaign for Uyghurs
- Uyghur Human Rights Project
Roma Genocide
Curriculum
Holocaust Primary Sources
- Centropa
- German Propaganda Archive
- Harvard Law School Nuremberg Trials Project
- House of the Wannsee Project
- Poetry in Hell
- USHMM Collections Search
- Yad Vashem Digital Collection
- Yad Vashem Holocaust Resource Center Holocaust Documents
- Yale University Avalon Project
- YIVO Institute for Jewish Research
Survivor Testimonies and Oral Histories
- The USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education
- IWitness Project
- Fortunoff Archives - Yale
- Voices of the Holocaust
- NH Testimonies
- Learning – Voices of the Holocaust
- 1939 Club
- Refugee Voices
- Holocaust Survivors
- Southern Institute for Education and Research’s Louisiana Holocaust Survivors
- Telling Their Stories: Oral History Archives Project
- USHMM First Person: Conversations With Holocaust Survivors
- USHMM: ID Cards and Personal Stories
- University of Michigan-Dearborn’s Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive
- Yad Vashem: the Voice of Survivors
- Voices of Rwanda
- The Absence: Holocaust Documentary Resource
Scholarly Resources
- PRISM: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Holocaust Educators
- USHMM Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies
- USHMM Holocaust Survivors and Victims Database
- Yad Vashem: Central Database of Shoah Victims’ names
- Yad Vashem: International Institute or Holocaust Research
- Yad Vashem: Transports to Extinction: Shoah Deportation Database
Judaism
- New England Jewish History
- Beyond the Pale: History of Jews in Russia
- Center for Jewish History
- The Jewish Federation of New Hampshire
- Jewish History Resource Center
- Jewish life in Poland
- The Museum of Jewish Heritage
- National Yiddish Book Center
- The Jewish Virtual Library
- Association of Jewish Refugees
- Museum of the History of Polish Jews
Non Jewish Victims of the Nazis
- FiveMillion Forgotten: The Holocaust’s Non Jewish Victims
- Nazi Persecution of Jehovah’s Witnesses – Arnold-Liebster Foundation
Museums, Centers, Institutions, Historical Sites
- Association of Holocaust Organizations
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- Yad Vashem
- Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum
- Holocaust Memorials Museums
- The Holocaust Center, Boston North Inc.
- Jewish Museum of Deportation and the Resistance - located in Belgium
- The Montreal Holocaust Memorial Centre
- Strassler Family Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
- Sydney Jewish Museum of the Holocaust
- The Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust & Genocide
- Simon Wiesenthal Center
- The Wright Museum – NH World War II Museum
- The Beth Shalom Holocaust Web Centre, UK
- National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education
- House of the Wannsee Conference
- Mauthausen Memorial
- Neuengamme Concentration Camp Memorial
- Riga Ghetto and Latvian Holocaust Museum
- State Museum at Majdanek
- Topography of Terror Foundation: Database of Holocaust Memorials
- Virtual Tour of Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Sachenhausen Memorial and Museum
- Dachau
- Buchenwald
- Flossenbürg
- Bergen-Belsen
- Holocaust Memorial Places in Latvia
Case Studies
- All But My Life Blog
- An End to Intolerance
- Children of the Lodz ghetto
- Hidden Children and the Holocaust: A Lesson and Pledge for Action
- Holocaust Art and Remembrance Moodle
- Hudson Falls High School World War II Living History nProject
- Night Blog
- Teaching History Matters Blog
Resistance & Rescue
- The Jewish Foundation for the Righteous
- Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
- Ghetto Fighters’ Museum
- Chambon Foundation
- Holocaust Heroes
- International Raoul Wallenberg Founation
- To Save A Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue
- “Secret Courage – The Walter Suskind Story”
- Kindertransport
- Waitstill and Martha Sharp
Anne Frank
- Anne Frank Online
- The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Netherlands – Discover Anne Frank’s hiding place
- Anne Frank timeline
Country-Specific
- Institute of Education, University of London
- Holocaust Education in the UK
- False Rumor of UK Suspending Holocaust Education
- AMCHA - Israeli Center for Psychosocial Support of Holocaust Survivors
- Memorial Book for the Victims of National Socialism at the University of Vienna, 1938
- Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance
- The Optimists - Bulgaria
- The Riga Ghetto and Holocaust in Latvia
- YIVO Digital Archive on Jewish Life in Poland
- The Holocaust in the Baltics
- Before the Holocaust – Photos of Hessian Jews in their everyday lives
- Lublin, Poland
- Esacpe Tunnel in Ponar, Lithuania
Photographic Galleries
- USHMM
- Yad Vashem
- Virtual Tour of Auschwitz (This is a “virtual tour” of the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp in Poland. The Center wishes to emphasize that today you can visit Auschwitz, but can never “be in Auschwitz.” The Center wishes to discourage the idea of a casual “tour” of Auschwitz.)
- YIVO Institute Holocaust Images
Christian-Jewish Relations
- The Center for Catholic Jewish Studies
- Centers for Christian-Jewish Learning
- Contemporary Church History
- Jewish-Christian Relations
- Council of Centers on Jewish-Christian Relations
- National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education
- “Walking God’s Paths: Christians and Jews in Candid Conversation” – User’s Guide
- Lenten Resouces for Catholic Liturgies Alternate lyrics for two hymns frequently used in Lent that are problematic for Christian-Jewish relations specifically or interreligious relations more generally: Lift High the Cross Lord of the Dance
