Educator Resources

This Educator Resource page is designed to provide teachers with a variety of materials that can enhance and supplement your Holocaust and genocide instruction. In keeping with our educational philosophy of “Safely Explore, Prepare and Conclude” (SPEC), we have designed these resources to engage students and foster critical and compassionate thinking so that they better understand the events of the Holocaust and see the victims as people, not just numbers.

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“You Onlookers”

By: Nelly Sachs | A poem that examines a Jewish refugee’s feelings about bystanders. The poem expresses the feelings of a Jewish refugee toward bystanders or “onlookers,” who neither collaborated…

Boxcar Lesson Plan

Suggested Grade Level: 8-10 Content Standards: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.6-8.1.B Support claims using reasoning and evidence to demonstrate understanding of topic/text, using credible sources CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.6-8.9 Draw evidence from informational texts to support analysis,…

Teaching With Survivor Art: An Inquiry Design Model

Can art reflect the pain of the Holocaust? This is the compelling question that is asked and examined in this collection of five focused inquiries using Holocaust survivor art. Inquiry…