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Student Workbooks and Teacher Guides
Books and Other Resources
Downloadable teacher's guide for Love in a World of Sorrow
Pre- and Post- Visit Materials create the possibility of extending the educational value of your visit to the Museum. They prepare students in advance to think critically about the issues they will confront in their tour and supplement the impact of the Museum afterwards with suggestions for further inquiry.
The following materials are published by the Museum's Education department and are designed to meet state standards.
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Student Workbooks and Teacher Guides
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Sosúa: A Refuge for Jews in the Dominican Republic / Un Refugio de Judíos en la República Dominicana
Teacher's Guide
Designed by Education staff to aid teachers in preparing students for a visit to the special exhibition, Sosúa: A Refuge for Jews in the Dominican Republic / Un Refugio de Judíos en la República Dominicana. Includes information about the exhibition, pre- and post-visit lesson plans with student worksheets in English and Spanish, background information about Jewish life, anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust, and a chronology, glossary, and bibliography. Student worksheets include: To Stay or To Go? / ¿Quedarse o irse?; Building a Society / Construir una sociedad; Establishing a Successful Economy / Establecer una economía exitosa; Pastimes and Cultural Life / Pasatiempos y vida cultural. Click here to download a free pdf copy.
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Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust Teacher's Guide
Designed by Education staff to aid teachers in preparing students for a visit to the special exhibition, Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust. Includes information about the exhibition, lesson plans for all schools, including lesson plans designed specifically for Jewish schools, and a list of additional resources. The activities are designed to encourage students to think about the range of Jewish response and resistance during the Holocaust, reflecting acts to maintain dignity, document the unimaginable, save lives, and resist with arms. Click here to download a free pdf copy. |
Hidden Children and the Holocaust Teacher's Guide
Designed by Education staff to aid teachers in preparing students with historical background about children hiding during the Holocaust.
Click here to download a free pdf copy.
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All of Ours To Fight For: Americans in the Second World War
Ours To Fight For Student Workbook. Paperback, 25pp. Grades 7-12. $3.85
Workbook that explores American involvement in the second world war from the home front to the front lines. Includes a chronology, timeline, glossary, and pre-visit activities for students. |
All of Ours To Fight For: Americans in the Second World War Teacher's Guide
The two sections of the Teacher's Guide augment and extend the exhibition workbook and Museum visit. The resources section provides a chronology, glossary, bibliography, list of films, and websites. The activities section contains a series of questions and activities aligned with National Standards and New York State Core Curriculum. Learn more.
Meeting Hate with Humanity: Life During the Holocaust
Student Workbook/Paperback, 16pp. Grades 7-12. $3.85
Workbook that explores the topics of heritage, anti-Semitism, and resistance within the context of the Holocaust. Includes a Holocaust chronology, glossary, pre-visit and post-visit activities for students.
Meeting Hate with Humanity: Life During the Holocaust Teacher's Guide
Designed by Education staff to aid teachers in preparing students with historical background of the Holocaust. Click here to download a free pdf copy.
What?! This Old Thing?
Student Workbook/Paperback, 22pp. Grades 3-6. $2.75
Designed by Education staff to show younger children how objects can tell us about our heritage and family traditions.
Love Thy Neighbor: Immigrants and the US Experience
Student Workbook/Paperback, 24 pp. Grades 5-12. $4.00
Workbook to be used as a classroom activity to examine the Jewish immigration experience to the United States. Explores themes of language, community, work and social activism through the use of primary documents. Includes a section on US immigration during the Holocaust.
You Are a Museum Detective. The Case: Looking for
Heritage in All the Right Places
Paperback, 22pp. Ages 7-11. $3.00
A family guide with Museum and at-home activities to help children use artifacts in intergenerational dialogue to learn about their family
heritage and traditions.
A Teenage Artist During the Holocaust: Life in the Terezin Ghetto
Student Workbook. Paperback, 17pp. Grades 6-10. $3.85
Workbook for students to explore themes of art and symbolic or spiritual resistance during the Holocaust, life in the Terezin (Theresienstadt) ghetto, and Nazi deception, through examination of a teenage artist's drawings and other primary documents. Includes a chronology and glossary.
Rescuers during the Holocaust: Curriculum Kit
Six double-sided laminated cards each with a dramatic personal story of non-Jews helping Jews survive the Holocaust, with questions for student discussion. Also includes Rescuers bibliography, webliography, filmography, and 4-page lesson plan to highlight stories of rescue in Love in a World of Sorrow: A Teenage Girl's Holocaust Memoir by Fanya Gottesfeld Heller. Currculum Kit $5.00
Curriculum Kit and Paperback Memoir $16.00
Liberation: Curriculum Kit
Four double-sided laminated cards each with a dramatic personal story of liberation, with questions for student discussion. Also includes 5-page lesson plan to highlight the struggles for liberation as described in Love in a World of Sorrow: A Teenage Girl's Holocaust Memoir by Fanya Gottesfeld Heller.
Currculum Kit $3.00
Curriculum Kit and Paperback Memoir $14.00
The Legacy of the Warsaw Ghetto: Curriculum Kit
Two sets of laminated cards and a curriculum guide. One set (five cards) highlights leadership in the Warsaw Ghetto, with an emphasis on physical and spiritual resistance. The second set (six cards) portrays original photographs and artifacts from the Warsaw Ghetto, accompanied by translations of poems, diaries, and other primary do> cuments. A curriculum guide gives instructions for use of the cards in the classroom and includes background information on the Holocaust, a history of Warsaw before and during the war, a timeline, and a bibliography. $5.00
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Zachor... A Kit for Students and Teachers to Study and Memorialize the Holocaust
Each year, the Museum's Education Department receives requests from teachers for support in planning meaningful Holocaust commemoration ceremonies at their schools. The Zachor Kit, developed in response to these requests, includes detailed instructions about planning a ceremony as well as various resources for use during the event, including a range of options so that a teacher may select those parts that are most relevant to their school’s specific needs. The kit includes candles, matches, and a 37 pp. guidebook. $32.95 |
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Coming of Age During the Holocaust, Coming of Age Now is a Holocaust curriculum for bar and bat mitzvah students. Through this multi-disciplinary curriculum, students are guided through reading, writing, and viewing activities to reflect on the challenges young people faced during the Holocaust in maintaining their Jewish identities, the responsibilities they undertook for their families, the sacrifices they made for others, and the lessons that survivors want to teach the next generation as a result of their experiences before, during, and after the Holocaust. As a result of studying this curriculum, students grow in their understanding of the Holocaust, and of themselves. The curriculum includes a Teacher’s Guide, 13 student workbooks presenting the stories of young people who came of age during the Holocaust, and DVDs of testimony from these survivors, some in English and some in Hebrew with subtitles. The Coming of Age curriculum is a project of the Museum in collaboration with Yad LaYeled - The Ghetto Fighters’ Holocaust and Jewish Resistance Heritage Museum in Israel. $125 |
Books and Other Resources
The following are recommended resources for Holocaust education.
Teachers who attend professional development courses at the Museum and participate in an artifact-based workshop, will receive for classroom use our Every Object Tells A Story(tm) CD ROM.
I Too Had Dreams of a Bright Future: True Experiences of Children Who Survived the Holocaust
Yaffa Eliach, ed. New York, 1988. Paperback, 35pp., Illustrated. $6.00 Teacher's Guide available. $6.00 Poignant stories by Holocaust survivors.
Holocaust Oral History Manual
Final issue of Center for Holocaust Studies newsletter, 1991. Paperback, 84pp., illustrated. $6.00
Holocaust Bibliography
Bonnie Gurewitsch, ed., 1988. Paperback, 35pp. $5.00
Important reference tool listing books, articles, and other resource materials in 19 subject areas.
The Children of Izieu
SUNY, New Paltz. VHS Cassette, 26 minutes. $10.00
In English and French (with subtitles). This video tells the story of the rescue of 80 Jewish orphans during the war in France, their fate under Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie, and ultimately his capture and trial.
The Diary of Anne Frank
Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, and Otto Frank, playwrights. New York: Random House, 1956. Hardback, 174pp. $8.00
A dramatized version of the famous diary.
Love in a World of Sorrow: A Teenage Girl's Holocaust Memoirs
Fanya Gottesfeld Heller, author. Devora Publishing, 2005.
Paperback, 280pp. A dramatic account of one family's survival during the Nazi occupation of the Ukraine, and the loving relationship that developed between a young woman and one of her rescuers. $12.95
FREE DOWNLOADABLE TEACHER'S GUIDE FOR Love in a World of Sorrow
Click here to download teacher's guide.
Teacher's Guide for Love in a World of Sorrow: A Teenage Girl's Holocaust Memoirs
This compelling book by Holocaust survivor Fanya Gottesfeld Heller is particularly well suited for use with high school students in History or English classes because of its broad scope of issues relevant to the study of Holocaust and the genre of memoir. Click here to download the new Teacher’s Guide. This Teacher's Guide offers discussion questions and student activities for each chapter and incorporates study of artifacts. Some of the themes teachers explore with their students are: Jewish identity, encountering the Nazis and their collaborators, defiance against the Nazis, rescue, and the end of the war and its aftermath. This Teacher’s Guide for this compelling memoir will also serve teachers and students in prompting discussion of identity, responding to catastrophe, and individual responsibility.
Promises to Keep: One Man's Journey Against Terrible Odds
Ernest W. Michel, author. New York: Barricade, 1993.
Hardcover, 298pp., illustrated. $22.00
An unusual story of survival and perseverance. After the murder of his family and friends, Michel escaped, encountered Herman Goering as a reporter at the Nuremberg Trials, and continues to this day to honor the memories of those who perished.
When Time Ran Out: Coming of Age in the Third Reich
Frederic Zeller, author. New York: Berkeley, 1990. Paperback, 239pp., illustrated. $4.95
Based on Zeller's diaries, this memoir recalls life in Nazi Germany as seen through the eyes of an adolescent boy, with detailed accounts of the mounting anti-Jewish measures and Kristallnacht.
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