Social Awareness Essential Questions for Secondary Students

How are our attitudes and beliefs influenced by what we see and hear?

How does what we see and hear affect our actions?

What does learning about the choices people made during the Holocaust teach us about the power and impact of our choices today?

What responsibility do we have to recognize and uphold human value?

How can one person make a difference?

Estimated Casualties of the Nazi Holocaust

Holocaust Survivor Narratives

United Nations: Resolution on Genocide (1948)

Washington Conference Principals of Nazi-Confiscated Art (1998)

Adolf Hitler

Anne Frank

Elie Wiesel

Holocaust

World War II

Nobel Laureate of Night and Holocaust survivor, Elie Wiesel; Image by Scott Olson / Getty Images News / Getty Images / Universal Images Group 

An Overview of Auschwitz Video (4:07 min)

An Overview of the Anne Frank House Video (2:24 min)

Anti-Semitism Article

Holocaust Article

Holocaust Museum Article

Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)

*Articles can be translated into 133 languages and transformed between at least 2 content levels.

Dia de la Memoria del Holocausto

llamadoDer Führer

Heinrich Himmler

Holocausto

Joseph Goebbels

Noche de Los Cristales Rotos

Flags of the World. Photography. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
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Genocide

Holocaust article

The U.S. in World War II

The Effects of World War II: Research & Discussion Lesson Plan (See page 146)

Celebran El Año Nuevo Chino

Las Posadas

El Ramadan 

Hanukkah: Festival De Luces y Manjares

India-A Multiculturalidade de Mumbai: Diwali

The Number on Grandpa's Arm (18-minute video)

Simultaneous eBooks:

Lost Childhood: My Life in a Japanese Prison Camp During World War II Memoir by Annelex Hofstra Layson

Anne Frank by Alexandra Zapruder

A stranger called. He had photos of her family from the Holocaust era.

Dehumanization and mass violence: A study of mental state language in Nazi propaganda (1927-1945).

Holocaust Art Disputes: The Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery Act of 2016

How Nazi propaganda dehumanized Jews to facilitate the Holocaust.

ON PINS AND NEEDLES: Holocaust survivor Esther Krinitz was a seamstress with a story--one she told via fabric and thread.

Were American Indians the victims of genocide?

Books by Specific Holocaust Subject Headings

Holocaust Book List for Grades 4th-8th

Holocaust Book List for Grades 7th-12th

Read Along Performance Excepts from Holocaust Books

Anne Frank Graphic Novel eBook (simultaneous use for all)

New Book Explores the Mystery of Anne Frank's Betrayal

Leading Issues will have a background summary of the issue, a leading question, two different viewpoints each supported by three articles, critical questions, a political cartoon, and a timeline.

Antisemitism Leading Issue

Genocide Leading Issue

Holocaust Denial Leading Issue

Nazi Surrender. Photographer. Britannica ImageQuest, Encyclopædia Britannica, 25 May 2016.
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75 Years After Auschwitz

A Survivor Answers You

Five Stars for a Hero's Story

Interview a Survivor

Interview a Survivor (Part 2)

Stories from Survivors