Holocaust Web Sites
Introduction
For a guide to teaching Holocaust studies using the Internet, teachers can take a look at "The Holocaust: Questions and Activities for Thought and Discussion" by George Cassutto, a teacher at North Hagerstown High School in Maryland. He offers ideas on how to prepare students before a visit to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum site, suggestions on what do while at the site, and post-visit discussion topics. Using this as a basic template, teachers can search for other supplementary sites at directories such as The Holocaust page from About.com or David Dickerson personal page, Holocaust/Shoah. Both of these directories provide reviews for the links they list which can be very helpful in finding appropriate sites for the classroom. Listed below are five excellent Holocaust Web resources available for students and teachers.
Holocaust Museum & Studies Center
http://www.bxscience.edu/organizations/holocaust/
For a chronology of the Holocaust, users can go to this site from the Stuart S. Elenko Collection Holocaust Museum & Studies Center located at the Bronx High School of Science. Also included in the "Education Guide" section of the site are maps, lesson ideas, and information on Germany's laws against the Jewish, Nazi Party leaders, Nazi concentration camps, the Nuremberg Trials, and more. In addition, users can take a look at excerpts from Elie Wiesel's Night, artwork by Holocaust survivor David Olere, and a vast collection of propaganda posters.
Cybrary of the Holocaust
http://www.remember.org/
Michael Declan Dunn's comprehensive Holocaust resource collection includes historic photos and artwork related to the Holocaust, book excerpts, guides to teaching the Holocaust, and first-hand accounts of survivors, rescuers, liberators, and others who lived through the events.
Simon Wiesenthal Center
http://www.wiesenthal.com/
This site highlights the Wiesenthal Center's various activities and projects, including the Museum of Tolerance, CyberWatch (a task force monitoring hate groups on the Internet), and recent news releases. The "Multimedia Learning Center" section houses many articles and photos that chronicle anti-Semitism and the "Final Solution," WWII, resistance and rescue, non-Jews who saved Jews during the Holocaust, world response to the Holocaust, and life after WWII. There is also a glossary of Holocaust-related terms, a Holocaust timeline, and a list of answers to frequently asked questions about the Holocaust. Well-developed online exhibitions explore the life of Chiune Sugihara, a rescuer of Jews during the Holocaust, and the Warsaw Ghetto and its uprising.
To Save a Life: Stories of Holocaust Rescue
http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/
First-person accounts of six rescuers who assisted Holocaust victims are available at this site by Professor Ellen Land-Weber from Humboldt State University in Arcata, CA. She has also posted stories from those who were rescued, background on Jewish life under German occupation in the countries where the rescuers lived (Holland, Poland, and Czechoslovakia), photos, and maps.
Yad Vashem
http://www.yad-vashem.org.il/
Located in Jerusalem, Israel, Yad Vashem is one of the principal world authorities on Holocaust documentation, study, and education. Most useful for the classroom is the "About the Holocaust - Shoah" section that has answers to frequently asked questions on the Holocaust, a chronology, a large collection of Holocaust documents, and excerpts from Holocaust-related articles. In the "Collections and Resources" section, users can browse through several online versions of Yad Vashem exhibits.
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