Inside the Glass Case

Inside the Glass Case offers educational videos, survivor testimony, photos, lesson plans, and other resources that will engage, educate, and empower you and your students.

On-Demand Museum Experiences

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Children's Book: Trust No Fox

Learn about Nazi Ideology and propaganda through a children’s book published in 1936, and how these ideas influenced people’s actions.

Daily life for Jewish people living in Germany began to look very different once Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power in 1933. Propaganda was a powerful tool used to spread Nazi Ideology and hateful antisemitic attitudes.

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Steve Lewkowicz’s Uniform

Learn about the Final Solution and life in the camps through a local survivor’s story and a close look at his uniform from Buchenwald.

During the Holocaust, the Nazis ran more than 30,000 labor and concentration camps. Six death camps in Poland were designed for efficient mass murder of Jewish people. Learn more about life in these camps, as well as about The Final Solution in the video. 

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Samuel Pruchno’s Paintings

Learn about life in the camps, the death marches, and liberation through a series of paintings by a local survivor.

After a full career, local survivor Samuel Pruchno dedicated his time to painting. The series of paintings that he donated to our museum teach us about the Holocaust in general, and his story in particular. Learn more in the video. 

Additional Artifacts with Lesson Plans

Ben Guyer's Uniform

Learn about dehumanization and the role of uniforms in the camp system through a close look at a survivor’s tailored uniform.

The Boxcar

Learn about deportation and its role in the Final Solution through an analysis of firsthand accounts and our museum's own boxcar.

Ruth Korn's Basket

Learn about the Nazi invasion of Denmark and the struggles of emigration to the United States through a close look at a local survivor’s basket.

Royal Army Medical Corps Report

Learn about the liberation of Bergen-Belsen and the establishment of DP camps through a Royal Army Medical Corps Report.

Hans Weinmann and the Kindertransport

Learn about the Nuremberg Laws, Kristallnacht, and the Kindertransport through the documents and story of a local survivor.

A Wedding Band Discovered

Learn about the camp system and how to analyze an artifact through a wedding band discovered at Dachau.