Results from all areas to Holocaust

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The Arolsen Archives and the Holocaust Survivors’ Friendship Association – Learning from History in Partnership and Friendship

Lilian Black concentrates on the cooperation between the Arolsen Archives and the Holocaust Survivors’ Friendship Association in Great Britain. The author writes from the perspective of the daughter of a Holocaust survivor who has researched the history of her father’s persecution.

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Learning with Biographies. Objectives, Opportunities and Limitations of Educational Work with Life Stories and Biographical Fragments about Former Victims of Nazi Persecution

Ingolf Seidel discusses the fundamental opportunities and challenges encountered when working with the biographies of the victims of Nazi persecution in an educational context. He pays special attention to the use of biographical fragments such as those preserved in the Arolsen Archives.

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International Library Platform for Education About the Holocaust

Misko Stanisic presents a professional development project for librarians and archivists in Serbia, which the Arolsen Archives have supported by running workshops and giving lectures.

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The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Collections of the Arolsen Archives

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) in Washington is an important partner of the Arolsen Archives at international level. Elizabeth Anthony shows how the institutions structure their cooperation and presents the publications the USHMM has produced on the basis of documents from the Arolsen Archives.

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Life after Survival. The History of Displaced Persons as a Subject for Education in Schools and Other Educational Contexts

Akim Jah und Elisabeth Schwabauer explore the question „who are Displaced Persons?“ and consider what potential the stories of their lives after National Socialist persecution have for learning in schools and other contexts.

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The Arolsen Archives. A Historical Overview

The International Tracing Service came into being in 1948. It was an institution in a constant state of flux. Isabel Panek and Henning Borggräfe give a historical account of its development and describe the tasks fulfilled by the Arolsen Archives today.

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Working with historical documents from the Arolsen Archives in an educational context

Akim Jah highlights the importance of historical documents for learning about history. He uses the three stages of historical inquiry – comprehension, source criticism and source interpretation – to throw light on the use of sources in an educational context.

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The United States Holocaust Memorial and the ITS Digital Archive

The United States Holocaust Memorial is one of the ITS international partner organisations. Elizabeth Anthony (USHMM) is presenting some results which arised from the collaboration.

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Specifics

The International Tracing Service and the Holocaust Survivors’ Friendship Association – Learning from History in Partnership and Friendship

Lilian Black describes how she reconstructed the story of her father, a Holocaust survivor, and his two sisters with ITS documents.

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New UNESCO guidelines ‘Education about the Holocaust & Preventing Genocide’

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First Person - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors

First Person is a program for the public featuring a series of conversations with Holocaust survivors.

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World Memory Project

Imagine living for 65 years not knowing what happened to a family member during the Holocaust and then suddenly discovering the truth in a document you never knew existed.

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Website: European Holocaust Research Infrastructrue

EHRI's main objective is to support the European Holocaust research community by opening up a portal that will give online access to dispersed sources relating to the Holocaust all over Europe and Israel, and by encouraging collaborative research through the development of tools.

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The Untold Stories

The murder sites of the jews in the occupied territorries of the former USSR.

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The Judenrat in Shoah history

The contributor offers a reconsideration, based only on historical facts, of the “Judenrat Question” pointing out how those tragic figure had been overburdened by events and circumstanc

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To be a Jewish teenager in Poland

The Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe offers comprehensive material and lesson plans about the living environment of Jewish youth in interwar Poland.

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Facing History and Ourselves

The web portal offers a variety of material for educators in historical and political education.

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Book Review: Vasily Grossman - The Road

The “Road” edited and presented by Robert Chandler brings together short stories, journalism, essays, and letters by Vasily Grossman, the author of “Life and Fate”, provid

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Teaching with Audio Podcasts

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) offers ideas and resources how to teach with audio-podcasts.

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The Holocaust Resource Center

The Holocaust Resource Center is a collection

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A Jewish Cemetery in Germany Tells its Story

Over a period of six weeks, students from Bonn studied the Jewish Cemetery in Schwarzrheindorf. The names on the gravestones led to research on the lives of Jewish families.

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Anti-Racism Project For Unemployed Youth

Since 1998, unemployed youth have been researching Jewish history in their home town of Freiberg and neighboring Czech cities as part of a job qualification program to become "specialists for

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The Treasury and Tax Department and the Perscution of the Jews

Since 1992, the memorial and educational center at the House of the Wannsee Conference has offered seminars for civil service employees in tax administration.

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Workcamp in Wöbbelin

Looking for new approaches to civic education, the statewide association for youth along with "Memorial Work in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania" started a work camp at the Wöbbelin mem

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Texts against Amnesia

Students from Mülheim an der Ruhr planned a one-week writing workshop. In preparation for it, they organized a research project about Jewish life in their town.

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Trains to Death

Since 1973, Hanover's Association of Christian Students has worked with youth groups in a simulation game about railroads and the deportation of victims to concentration camps.

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Visiting the Moringen Youth Camp

Young people in a club in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania often felt left out because they were nonconformists.

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Holocaust Education in Hungary

Holocaust Education at the Lauder Javne Jewish Community School, Budapest.

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The 7th International Conference on Holocaust Education and Remembrance

Some 200 decision makers in the field of education, from approximately 40 countries - including Austria, Australia, Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico,

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Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive

Since 1981, Dr. Sidney Bolkosky, Professor of History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, has interviewed Holocaust survivors.

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Holocaust: The Ignored Reality

Professor Timothy Snyder wants to expand the conventional understanding of mass murders druring the period between the 1930s and the 1940s.

Empfehlung Film

Referral film

Kisses to the Children

The film "Kisses to the children" by Vassilis Loules narrates the stories of five Jewish children who survived hidden by Christian families during the German Occupation in Greece.

Empfehlung Lebensbericht

Referral biography

Thomas Buergenthal: A Lucky Child. A Memoir of Surviving Auschwitz as a Young Boy

The book “A Lucky Child” is Thomas Buergenthal's autobiography, which was published in 2007. However, he began the book with: “This book should probably have been written many years ago, when the events I describe were still fresh in my mind.” The autobiography of a child, surviving the holocaust, bears an irreplaceable piece in the mosaic of testimonies of countless innocent victims.

Podcast

Podcast

Bringing Holocaust Survivors into the Classroom: A Facing History and Ourselves Podcast

"Facing History and Ourselves" is an educational and nonprofit organisation for students.

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Antisemitism in the Aftermath of the Holocaust

Speakers: Gliszczynska-Grabias,Professor Marek Kucia,Barbara Wind

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Surviving the Holocaust

Dr. Hajo G. Meyer joins us in the NvTv studio. He was born in 1924 in Bielefeld, Germany. Not allowed to attend school there after November 1938, he fled to the Netherlands, alone.

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Teaching the Holocaust

"Teaching the Holocaust" is a program of the North Carolina Center for the Advancement of Teaching.

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Holocaust Educational Trust

A funding raising and awareness film for the Holocaust Educational Trust, highlighting their work in education.

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WWII: Witnessing the Holocaust Collection

These programmes and documents chart the reactions and personal testimonies of some of those who witnessed the Nazis' "Final Solution".

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The Global Prevention of Genocide: Learning From the Holocaust

Today, many states have recognized the importance of teaching about the Holocaust and using it as a mechanism for preventing racism, ethnic conflict, and genocide.

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Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies

The Fortunoff Archive offers several thematic programs. On the archives website some testimony excerpts from these programs are available, for example about Yugoslav voices from the Holocaust.

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Reflections on the Holocaust

Holocaust survivor, Nobel Peace Prize winner and author Elie Wiesel reflected on his experiences in the concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald in a recent interview with radio producer Lar