Teacher Resources

The resources described here are largely from the OISE Library's Curriculum Resources collection, located on the third floor of the OISE Library and including a variety of resources such as books, films, CD-ROMs, DVDs, kits, teachers’ guides, and lesson plans. The resources highlighted here are suggested items that provide useful information, tools and guides related to educating about the Holocaust.

General Resources

Essentials of Holocaust Education: Fundamental Issues and Approaches by Samuel Totten (Editor); Stephen Feinberg (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2016
An original collection of essays by Holocaust scholars, teacher educators, and classroom teachers, it covers a full range of issues relating to Holocaust education, with the goal of helping teachers to help students gain a deep and thorough understanding of why and how the Holocaust was perpetrated. Both conceptual and pragmatic, it delineates key rationales for teaching the Holocaust, provides useful historical background information for teachers, and offers a wide array of practical approaches for teaching about the Holocaust.
Understanding and Teaching Holocaust Education by Paula Cowan; Henry Maitles
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2017
This book offers pragmatic pedagogical and classroom-based guidance for teachers and trainee teachers on how to intelligently teach holocaust education in a meaningful and age-appropriate way. Key coverage includes: Practical approaches and useful resources for teaching in schools Holocaust education and citizenship Holocaust remembrance as an educational opportunity How to explore the topic of anti-semitism in the classroom Exploring international perspectives on holocaust education
Holocaust Education in Primary Schools in the Twenty-First Century: Current Practices, Potentials and Ways Forward by Claus-Christian W. Szejnmann (Editor); Paula Cowan (Editor); James Griffiths (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2018
This collection is the first of its kind, bringing together Holocaust educational researchers as well as school and museum educators from across the globe, to discuss the potentials of Holocaust education in relation to primary school children. Its research provides new insight into the diverse ways in which primary aged students engage with Holocaust education. Chapters explore the impact of teaching the Holocaust to this age group, school and museum teaching pedagogies, and primary students' perspectives of the Holocaust.
Teaching the Holocaust: Practical Approaches for Ages 11-18 by Michael Gray
Call Number: Curriculum Resources 940.5318071 G781T
Publication Date: 2015
Teaching the Holocaust is an important but often challenging task for those involved in modern Holocaust education. What content should be included and what should be left out? How can film and literature be integrated into the curriculum? What is the best way to respond to students who resist the idea of learning about it? This book, drawing upon the latest research in the field, offers practical help and advice on delivering inclusive and engaging lessons along with guidance on how to navigate through the many controversies and considerations when planning, preparing, and delivering Holocaust education.
Contemporary Debates in Holocaust Education by Michael Gray
Call Number: ebook
Publication Date: 2014
Holocaust education is a rapidly evolving and controversial field. This book, which critically analyses the very latest research, adopts a global perspective and discusses a number of the most important debates which are emerging within it such as teaching the Holocaust without survivors and the role of digital technology in the classroom.
Issues in Holocaust Education by Geoffrey Short; Carole Ann Reed
Call Number: Robarts Stacks D804.33 .S57 2004
Publication Date: 2004
This original contribution to understanding the nature of Holocaust education in schools tackles an issue that has gained significant interest over the past decade, and is of increasing relevance due to a growing intolerance across Europe and elsewhere. The authors examine a range of issues including the need for Holocaust education, the factors that facilitate or inhibit its evolution, and the indifferent response of the antiracist movement to the attempted annihilation of European Jewry.
Paths to Teaching the Holocaust by Tibbi Duboys
Call Number: Robarts Stacks D804.33 .P38 2008
Publication Date: 2008
Offers contributions by childhood, middle and secondary teacher educators from various regions and universities in the continental United States. Some contributors write about ways in which they infuse existing courses with Holocaust materials, while others focus on where and when to begin the education of their students with respect to genocide. The contents of Paths to Teaching the Holocaust will be useful to educators and others concerned with oppression, human rights and social justice.
Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust by Marianne Hirsch; Irene Kacandes
Call Number: Robarts Stacks PN56 .H55 T44 2004X
Publication Date: 2004
Can the story be told? Jorge Semprun asked after his liberation from Buchenwald. The question is addressed from many angles in this volume of essays on teaching about the Holocaust. In their introduction, Marianne Hirsch and Irene Kacandes argue that Semprun's question is as vital now, and as difficult and complex, as it was for the survivors in 1945. The thirty-eight contributors to Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust come from various disciplines (history, literary criticism, psychology, film studies) and address a wide range of issues pertinent to the teaching of a subject that many teachers and students feel is an essential part of a liberal arts education.
Teaching, Learning, and the Holocaust: An Integrative Approach by Howard Tinberg; Ronald Weisberger
Call Number: Robarts Stacks D804.33 .T56 2014X
Publication Date: 2014
Classroom study of the Holocaust evokes strong emotions in teachers and students. Teaching, Learning, and the Holocaust assesses challenges and approaches to teaching about the Holocaust through history and literature. Howard Tinberg and Ronald Weisberger apply methods and insights of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning to examine issues in interdisciplinary teaching, with a focus on the community college setting. They discuss student learning and teacher effectiveness and offer guidance for teaching courses on the Holocaust, with relevance for other contexts involving trauma and atrocity.
The Holocaust's Ghost: Writings on Art, Politics, Law and Education by Bernard Schwartz; F. C. DeCoste
Call Number: Robarts Stacks D804.18 .H668 2000
Publication Date: 2000
This resource includes papers from the conference, Holocaust: Art/Politics/Law, held at the University of Alberta on Oct. 1997. Of particular note are the chapters from Karen Mock, Franklin Bialystok, and Joseph M. Kirman who explore issues in educating about the Holocaust. Mock`s chapter is particularly valuable as it examines the importance of Holocaust education for combating contemporary hate and anti-Semitism in modern Canada.

Subject Information

None Is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe, 1933-1948 by Irving Abella; Harold Troper
Call Number: OISE Stacks 940.5315 A141N 2012
Publication Date: 2012
Conclusively lays to rest the comfortable notion that Canada has always been an accepting and welcoming society. Detailing the country's refusal to offer aid, let alone sanctuary, to Jews fleeing Nazi persecution between 1933 and 1948, it is an immensely bleak and discomfiting story. None Is Too Many will undoubtedly continue to serve as a potent reminder of the fragility of tolerance, even in a country where it is held as one of our highest values.
Forgotten Crimes: The Holocaust and People with Disabilities by Suzanne E. Evans
Call Number: Robarts Stacks D804.5 .H35 E93 2004X
Publication Date: 2004
Between 1939 and 1945 the Nazi regime systematically murdered hundreds of thousands of children and adults with disabilities as part of its "euthanasia" programs. These programs were designed to eliminate all persons with disabilities who, according to Nazi ideology, threatened the health and purity of the German race. Forgotten Crimes explores the development and workings of this nightmarish process, a relatively neglected aspect of the Holocaust. Suzanne Evans's account draws on the rich historical record as well as scores of exclusive interviews with disabled Holocaust survivors.
Deaf People in Hitler's Europe by Donna F. Ryan; John S. Schuchman
Call Number: Robarts Stacks HV2746 .D43 2002X
Publication Date: 2002
Inspired by the conference "Deaf People in Hitler's Europe, 1933-1945," hosted jointly by Gallaudet University and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in 1998, this collection, organized into three parts, integrates key presentations and important postconference research. Divided in 3 parts: "Part I: Racial Hygiene," "Part II: The German Experience," "Part III: The Jewish Deaf Experience."
The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals by Richard Plant
Call Number: UTM Stacks HQ76.2 .G4 P55 1988
Publication Date: 1988
This is the first comprehensive book in English on the fate of the homosexuals in Nazi Germany. The author, a German refugee, examines the climate and conditions that gave rise to a vicious campaign against Germany's gays, as directed by Himmler and his SS--persecution that resulted in tens of thousands of arrests and thousands of deaths. The horror of camp life is described through diaries, previously untranslated documents, and interviews with and letters from survivors, revealing how the anti-homosexual campaign was conducted.

Resource Guides

Holocaust and Human Behavior by Facing History and Ourselves Staff
Call Number: OISE Stacks 940.5315 H7545
Publication Date: 2017
Holocaust and Human Behavior leads students through an examination of the history of the Holocaust, while fostering their skills in ethical reasoning, critical thinking, empathy, and civic engagement. By focusing on the choices of individuals who experienced this history--through primary sources, eyewitness testimonies, personal reflections, poetry, and images-- students are given a lens to thoughtfully examine the universal themes and questions about human behavior inherent in a study of the Holocaust. Students are also prompted to draw connections between history and the world today.
Bearing Witness: A Resource Guide to Literature, Poetry, Art, Music, and Videos by Holocaust Victims and Survivors by Philip Rosen; Nina Apfelbaum
Call Number: Robarts Stacks Z6374 .H6 R67 2002X
Publication Date: 2001
This resource guide will help readers locate over 800 first-person accounts, fiction, poetry, art interpretations, and music by Holocaust victims and survivors, as well as videos relating the testimony and experiences of Holocaust survivors. In addition to the few well-known writers, artists, and musicians whose work so eloquently captures their experience during the Holocaust, this guide will introduce the reader to the lives and work of more than 250 lesser known or unrecognized writers, artists, and musicians from many countries who documented their experience of persecution at the hands of the Nazis.
Canada and the Holocaust : Social Responsibility and Global Citizenship: A Resource Guide for Social Studies 11 Teachers by British Columbia Ministry of Education
Call Number: CR 940.53180712711 C212
Publication Date: 2000
Designed to provide support for approximately seven hours of classroom instruction. This resource focuses on the impact of Canada's immigration policies, which directly affected Jews during the Holocaust. The lessons are divided into a three-part examination of the prewar period, the period during the war, and postwar immigration policies. These three sections are document-based, using primary documents, newspaper clippings, letters, diary entries, and speeches
Historical Atlas of the Holocaust by U. S. Holocaust Memorial Council Staff; U. S. Holocaust Memorial Museum Staff
Call Number: CR 940.53180223 H673
Publication Date: 1995
Crafted over the course of four years by the research and production staff of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Historical Atlas of the Holocaust provides a unique depiction of Europe between 1933 and 1950. Compiled from archives around the world, the Atlas is based on extensive research into primary sources -- such as period maps captured from the German army, survivor testimony, and aerial photographs taken by American, British, and German forces -- illustrating the Nazi camp system that pervaded Europe. The Museum's researchers have prepared detailed plans and explanatory text for more than 25 Nazi concentration, transit, forced-labor, and extermination camps. In addition to maps of major cities and ghettos, the Atlas charts the destruction of synagogues during Kristallnacht; the movement of Nazi killing squads across eastern Europe; the routes of deportations and forced marches; and the location of Nazi pseudo-scientific experimental facilities.
Holocaust: Cumulative Index by Elizabeth Kniss (Contribution by); William L. Shulman (Editor)
Call Number: CR 940.5318 H754 v.1-8 Index
ISBN: 1567112099
Publication Date: 1997
In this comprehensive series, the story of the Holocaust is told within its broad historical context, year by year. With a text that blends historical narrative and primary sources, each volume explores the unique aspects and events that shaped each significant time period.
The Holocaust: Social Responsibility and Global Citizenship: A Resource Guide for Social Studies 6 Teachers by British Columbia Ministry of Education
Call Number: CR 940.53180712711 H754
Publication Date: 2000
The Holocaust: Social Responsibility and Global Citizenship is a resource guide for Social Studies 6 teachers. Designed to provide support for approximately eight hours of classroom instruction.This resource is designed to help students gain an understanding of social responsibility and global citizenship through study of the Holocaust. Students are encouraged to recognize that their actions have an impact on people and the community around them.

Teacher's Guides

Enacting History: A Practical Guide to Teaching the Holocaust through Theater by Mira Hirsch; Janet E. Rubin; Arnold Mittelman
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9781138608740
Publication Date: 2020
Enacting History is a practical guide for educators that provides methodologies and resources for teaching the Holocaust through a variety of theatrical means, including scripted texts, verbatim testimony, devised theater techniques and process-oriented creative exercises.
Approaches to Teaching Wiesel's Night by Alan Rosen
Call Number: Robarts Stacks D804.33 .A65 2007X
Publication Date: 2007
The seventeen essays of this volume in the MLA series Approaches to Teaching World Literature examine the historical, cultural, and literary contexts of Wiesel's book as well as strategies for teaching it in the classroom. Part 1, "Materials," provides resources on the Jewish ghettos and concentration camps of World War II, on the Jewish faith and religious practices, on the genre of victims' diaries, on the critical reception of Night, on Wiesel's other work, and on available audiovisual materials. Part 2, "Approaches," addresses many subjects--among them, Wiesel's narrative techniques, the representation of Auschwitz, the use of different languages, the comparison of Wiesel with Primo Levi, the problems of memory and bearing witness, the Christian response to the Holocaust, and the challenge of teaching a grim and painful text to students.
Memories of the Night: A Study of the Holocaust by Anita Meyer Meinbach; Miriam Klein Kassenoff
Call Number: 940.5318 M514M
Publication Date: 1994
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Designed for teachers, to help them bring the lessons of the Holocaust to life. First-person accounts and the literature of the Holocaust form the basis for challenging, thought-provoking reflections and a variety of interdisciplinary activities that encourage students to connect the lessons of the Holocaust to the principles that will govern their own lives.
Facing Past and Future: Teaching and Portraying the Holocaust a Generation Later by Sara R. Horowitz; Mark Joel Webber.
Call Number: Robarts Stacks D804.33 .H67 2002
Publication Date: 2002
Learning about the Holocaust: A Student's Guide by Ronald M. Smelser
Call Number: OISE CR 940.5318 L438
Publication Date: 2000
Macmillan's 1991 Dartmouth Medal-winning Encyclopedia of the Holocaust set the standard for general reference encyclopedias about the Holocaust. Learning About the Holocaust presents this material at a level appropriate for high school. Nearly 300 articles from 300 to 2,500 words in length have been rewritten at 9th and 10th grade reading levels, and many new features have been added to enhance the text, including diary entries and stories about young people who lived during the Holocaust. Related source lists include books, magazines, movies and Web sites.
My Mother's Voice: Children, Literature and the Holocaust by Adrienne Kertzer
Call Number: OISE CR 809.93358 K41M
Publication Date: 2002
How do children's books represent the Holocaust? How do such books negotiate the tension between the desire to protect children, and the commitment to tell children the truth about the world? In approaching these and other questions, Kertzer uses the lens of children's literature to problematize the ways in which various adult discourses represent the Holocaust, and continually challenges the conventional belief that children's literature is the place for easy answers and optimistic lessons.
Teaching History with Museums: Strategies for K-12 Social Studies by Alan S. Marcus; Jeremy D. Stoddard; Walter W. Woodward
Call Number: OISE CR 907.5 M322T
Publication Date: 2011
Teaching History with Museums provides an introduction and overview of the rich pedagogical power of museums. In this comprehensive textbook, the authors show how museums offer a sophisticated understanding of the past and develop habits of mind in ways that are not easily duplicated in the classroom. Using engaging cases to illustrate accomplished history teaching through museum visits, this text provides pre- and in-service teachers, teacher educators, and museum educators with ideas for successful visits to artifact and display-based museums, historic forts, living history museums, memorials, monuments, and other heritage sites. Each case is constructed to be adapted and tailored in ways that will be applicable to any classroom and encourage students to think deeply about museums as historical accounts and interpretations to be examined, questioned, and discussed.
Teaching the Holocaust: Educational Dimensions, Principles and Practice by Ian Davies
Call Number: Robarts Stacks D804.33 .T43 2000
Publication Date: 2000
Offers a comprehensive treatment of Holocaust education, blending introductory material, broad perspectives and practical teaching case studies. This work shows how and why pupils should learn about the Holocaust.
The RJCO Holocaust Education Teacher Training Program by Regional Jewish Communities of Ontario
Call Number: OISE CR 940.5318071 R6271
Publication Date: 2003
This kit includes one book, two booklets and two brochures included which are teaching resources designed to teach about tolerance, understanding, and human rights through studying the Holocaust.

Reproducibles, Supplementary Materials, and Activities

The Holocaust compiled by William Phillips.
Call Number: OISE Audio Visual JD 150

This is 1 portfolio with 19 pieces. It contains 1 introductory pamphlet (5 pages), 12 primary source exhibits, 5 broadsheets, and 1 bibliography. The Holocaust, portfolio G81. Jackdaw takeoff study guide is intended to be used with it.
The Holocaust, Portfolio G81: Jackdaw Takeoff Study Guide by Rebecca Spears Schwartz & Rue Anne Wood
Call Number: OISE Audio Visual JD 150 gu

This is a set of reproducible masters designed to be a supplement to The Holocaust, portfolio no. G81. It has 22 pages.
Voices: Plays for Studying the Holocaust edited by Janet E. Rubin
Call Numbers: Robarts Stacks PN6120 .H73 V65 1999X

Bringing together scripts, activities, and resources, this book has been compiled so as to offer intellectual and emotional experiences to students.

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