Jewish Holocaust

Footprints: Discovering the Holocaust through Historical Artefacts (2014)

Icon: 
DVD icon
Icon: 
Teacher's Guide icon

This educational video was created for the Footprints of Hope project, a new initiative from the Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme designed to involve students aged 13 years and older in the study of the Holocaust. This film is accompanied by a lesson plan and PowerPoint presentation titled “Ordinary Things? Discovering the Holocaust through Historical Artefacts”.

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
00:08
Footprints: Discovering the Holocaust through Historical Artefacts

Women and the Holocaust: Courage and Compassion (2014)

Icon: 
DVD icon
Icon: 
Teacher's Guide icon

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

The Book Thief

Icon: 
DVD icon

Based on the beloved best-selling book comes an "extremely moving" (Leonard Maltin, Indiewire) story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II Germany. When her mother can no longer care for her, Liesel (Sophie Nelisse) is adopted by a German couple (OSCAR® Winner Geoffrey Rush and OSCAR® Nominee Emily Watson). Although she arrives illiterate, Liesel is encouraged to learn to read by her adoptive father. When the couple then takes in Max (Ben Schnetzer), a Jew hiding from Hitler's army, Liesel befriends him.

Director: 
Brian Percival
Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
02:11
The Book Thief

Lessons of the Holocaust (#104)

Icon: 
Streaming icon

Examines the persecution of Jews in Nazi Germany and demonstrates that the ideas and opinions of that time are still prevalent in our society today.


Click here to watch streaming online

Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
00:14
Lessons of the Holocaust (#104)

Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition (Unabridged)

Icon: 
ipod icon

More than 50 years after its first publication, Doubleday's definitive edition of Anne Frank's famous diary generated an extraordinary amount of excitement when it was published in early 1995.

Author: 
Anne Frank
Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Length: 
09:56
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition (Unabridged)

Number the Stars (Unabridged)

Icon: 
ipod icon

Ten-year-old Annemarie Johansen and her best friend Ellen Rosen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943, and their life in Copenhagen is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the Jews of Denmark are "relocated," Ellen moves in with the Johansens and pretends to be one of the family.

Author: 
Lois Lowry
Grade Level: 
Elementary
Lexile: 
670L
Length: 
05:32
Number the Stars (Unabridged)

The Book Thief (Unabridged)

Icon: 
ipod icon

It's just a small story really, about, among other things, a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery.

Author: 
Markus Zusak
Grade Level: 
Middle
High
Lexile: 
730L
Length: 
13:56
The Book Thief (Unabridged)

All but My Life (Unabridged)

Icon: 
ipod icon

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
All but My Life (Unabridged)

Night (Unabridged)

Icon: 
ipod icon

It is 1944. The Jews of Sighet, Hungary are rounded up and driven into Nazi concentration camps. For the next terrible year, young Elie Wiesel experiences the loss of everything he loves — home, friends, family — in an agonizing journey through Birkenau, Auschwitz, Buna, and Buchenwald. The greatest tragedy of our time, told through the eyes of a 15-year old boy.

Author: 
Elie Wiesel
Grade Level: 
High
Lexile: 
590L
Length: 
04:18
Night (Unabridged)

Pages