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Come
to the library and check out the Holocaust Remembrance Book Display
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Click
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Trivia Contest.
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Teachers
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for lesson plans.
Holocaust
Resources:
National
Holocaust Remembrance Day is April 11th
The United States Congress established the Days of Remembrance as our nation's
annual commemoration of the Holocaust and created the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum as a permanent living memorial to the victims. This year
Holocaust Remembrance Day is Sunday, April 11. For more information visit, the United
States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
True Stories of Teens in the Holocaust
We thought that this would be an appropriate time to tell you about a new
series: True
Stories of Teens and the Holocaust. With a special focus on children and
young adults' experiences during the Holocaust, these books tell the poignant
stories of young people's lives through primary sources and artifacts.
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"Dispels the myth that the Holocaust
was a secret and explores the reasons why America's newspapers downplayed the
horrifying reports from Europe." Online companion to the film of same
title; also includes the script of the documentary. Fro ... |
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This site presents "a free
archive of documents, photographs, recordings, and [original] essays
regarding the Holocaust, including direct refutation of Holocaust-denial."
Features a question-and-answer email service as well as an archive of ... |
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Yizkor books list Jews who died for
their beliefs. This is a digitized collection of Yizkor books from the Dorot
Jewish Division of New York Public Library (NYPL), listing those from Eastern
European communities who were killed during the Holocaust. ... |
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"An overview of the people and
events of the Holocaust through photographs, documents, art, music,
movies, and literature." Ample resources for teachers, including K-12
lesson plans. Produced by the College of Education, University of South ... |
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January 2005 news article about the
"Wall of Names" memorial (a "stone wall engraved with the
names of 76,000 Jews who were deported from France to Nazi death camps during
World War II"), which "is located at the entrance to ... |
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"Organized by theme, this site
uses text, historical photographs, maps, images of artifacts, and audio clips
to provide an overview of the Holocaust. It is the first step in a
growing resource for middle and secondary level students and teachers ... |
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A collection of articles, essays,
poetry, book reviews, and interviews. The table of contents makes it easy to
browse the site. Subjects range from "Personal Reflections" to
"Women of Valor" and reflect the unique and terrifying e ... |
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A "resource about the art of the
Holocaust for researchers, educators, students and the wider
public." Explore , containing the art works, is the heart of the site.
It is browsable by artist and location and searchable by keyword, title,
artist, or p ... |
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Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes'
Remembrance Authority |
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The world's "largest and most
comprehensive repository of information on the Holocaust," Yad
Vashem was established in 1953 to impart "the legacy of the Holocaust
for generations to come through its archives, library, school, museums ... |
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This is a "national
clearinghouse for persons seeking the fates of loved ones missing since the Holocaust
and its aftermath. ... [They] assist U.S. residents searching for proof of
internment, forced/slave labor, or evacuation from former Soviet ... |