Historical Context + Resources

What Was the Holocaust?

 

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

https://www.ushmm.org/learn/holocaust

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Glossary

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/glossary

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Antisemitism

 

USHMM

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/antisemitism

 

Detailed explanations provided by Facing History and Ourselves.

https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/antisemitism-its-impacts

 

This serious 13 minute film introduces the historical roots of antisemitism from its origins in the early Christian church, on to the Holocaust, and into modern day.

https://www.ushmm.org/antisemitism/what-is-antisemitism/why-the-jews-history-of-antisemitism

 

Propaganda

https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/propaganda/home/what-is-propaganda

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Be an Upstander

 

From Bystander to Upstander

stopbullying.gov

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StPGbbBBrI0

 

cdc.gov

https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/featuredtopics/become-an-upstander.html#:~:text=An%20upstander%20is%20someone%20who,bullying%2Drelated%20anxiety%20and%20depression.

 

Facing History

https://www.facinghistory.org/upstander

 

Rescuers

 

The USC Shoah Foundation iwitness link below will introduce you to a number of extraordinary individuals: rescuers and aid workers who during the Holocaust, Armenian, and Rwandan genocides, rescued those targeted for persecution.

https://iwitness.usc.edu/watch?searching=false&theme=58&clip=109&entry=0_ey008opl

 

Produced by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), this exceptional 18 minute video will introduce you to stories and individuals including rescuers and the rescued.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9Rp38NsnzU

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Saving the Children from the Holocaust. In 2014, 60 Minutes met Nicholas Winton, a British stockbroker who in 1939 traveled to Czechoslovakia and saved 669 children from the Holocaust.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKe0SMPzIVQ

 

They Risked Their Lives: Holocaust Rescuers, 24 minute film, courtesy generously granted to NCH by producer and photographer, Gay Block.

https://vimeo.com/242993684

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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center.

Explore the stories of over 28,000 non-Jewish individuals (Christians, Muslims, and others) who risked their lives in order to rescue 1 or more Jewish people during the Holocaust. These honorees have met strict criteria to receive the coveted honor of Righteous Among the Nations.

https://www.yadvashem.org/righteous.html