Holocaust - Personal Narratives

Women and the Holocaust: Courage and Compassion (2014)

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The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme, in partnership with the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education and Yad Vashem. The Holcaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority, has produced this study guide and DVD for high school students to better understand the ways in which the Holocaust affected women.

Grade Level:

High

Women and the Holocaust: Courage and Compassion

Return to Auschwitz (#108)

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Auschwitz was the most notorious Nazi death camp of World War II. After returning there for the first time in more than 50 years, several Holocaust survivors tell the stories of their forced incarceration and the horrors they endured.

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

00:14

All but My Life (Unabridged)

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A classic of Holocaust literature, Gerda Weissmann Klein's celebrated memoir tells the moving story of a young woman's three frightful years as a slave laborer of the Nazis and her miraculous liberation. All But My Life stands as the ultimate lesson in humanity, hope, and friendship.

Author:

Gerda Weissmann Klein

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

780L

Length:

09:37

The Diary of Anne Frank

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The Diary of Anne Frank is a modern literary classic and an extraordinary social document that gives a unique account of life in hiding under Nazi terror in World War II from the perspective of a teenage Jewish girl.

Director:

Jon Jones

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Length:

01:40