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Holocaust Education Video Toolbox

The Holocaust Education Video Toolbox is designed to help educators teach the Holocaust. The focus is on methodological and pedagogical suggestions that aid with this often daunting task, as well as practical materials and discussion points for classrooms and groups - hence the name, Video Toolbox. In choosing the various topics, we have drawn on our experience with a global audience of teachers at the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem.

The videos are divided into 5 main sections:

  1. Fundamentals: These videos lay out some of the foundations of Holocaust education as we see them at the International School for Holocaust Studies at Yad Vashem.
  2. Witness Testimony: These videos detail the various uses for testimony and testimony films in the classroom.
  3. Online Resources: These videos focus on items on Yad Vashem's website, demonstrating their various educational uses.
  4. Published Materials: These videos profile some of our published educational materials, demonstrating how these might be used in the classroom.
  5. Echoes & Reflections: These videos introduce lessons from the Echoes & Reflections educational program.
The Oneg Shabbat Underground Archive in the Warsaw Ghetto

The Oneg Shabbat Underground Archive in the Warsaw Ghetto

During World War II, the clandestine Oneg Shabbat Archive operated in the Warsaw Ghetto, founded and overseen by historian and social-political activist, Dr. Emanuel Ringelblum. For the Holocaust Education Video Toolbox project,...
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Emanuel Ringelblum: The Oneg Shabbat Underground Archive in the Warsaw Ghetto

Emanuel Ringelblum: The Oneg Shabbat Underground Archive in the Warsaw Ghetto

In September 1939, Nazi Germany conquered Poland. Shortly after, historian Emanuel Ringelblum began chronicling the events overtaking the Jews of Warsaw and the surrounding areas under Nazi control. Once the Jews were forced into the...
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Rachel Auerbach and the Public Kitchen in the Warsaw Ghetto

Rachel Auerbach and the Public Kitchen in the Warsaw Ghetto

In Nazi-occupied Poland, historian Emanuel Ringelblum, who headed the Jewish Self-Help Society (Jewish relief organization) in Warsaw, asked Rachel Auerbach to organize a public kitchen. Once Jews were forced into the Warsaw Ghetto,...
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The Jewish Letter Carrier in the Warsaw Ghetto, by Peretz Opoczynski

The Jewish Letter Carrier in the Warsaw Ghetto, by Peretz Opoczynski

Peretz Opoczynski was a journalist, writer, and educator. During World War II Opoczynski was a member of the underground archive in the Warsaw Ghetto, the Oneg Shabbat (“Joy of the Sabbath”). Opoczynski documented...
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The Oneg Shabbat Archive Collections: The Wills of Israel Lichtenstein and Gele Sekstein 

The Oneg Shabbat Archive Collections: The Wills of Israel Lichtenstein and Gele Sekstein 

With the beginning of the Great Deportation of Warsaw Jewry to the Treblinka extermination camp, members of the clandestine Oneg Shabbat (“Joy of the Sabbath”) Archive sought shelter for the Archive and decided...
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The Great Deportation in the Warsaw Ghetto - Abraham Lewin's Diary

The Great Deportation in the Warsaw Ghetto - Abraham Lewin's Diary

Abraham Lewin, an educator and a member of the clandestine Oneg Shabbat (“Joy of the Sabbath”) Archive maintained a diary depicting the wartime events in the Warsaw ghetto. It is rare in that it covers in real...
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Resistance

Resistance

This Educator Video Toolbox is aligned to Echoes & Reflections, a comprehensive Holocaust education program that delivers professional development and a rich array of multimedia resources for middle and high school teachers....
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The Ghettos

The Ghettos

This Educator Video Toolbox is aligned to Echoes & Reflections, a comprehensive Holocaust education program that delivers professional development and a rich array of multimedia resources for middle and high school teachers....
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Poetry in Holocaust Education: 'Testimony' by Dan Pagis

Poetry in Holocaust Education: 'Testimony' by Dan Pagis

Dan Pagis was a Romanian-born Holocaust survivor who wrote about the Holocaust some 25 years after the events. The poem "Testimony" deals with complex ethical, philosophical and theological issues that troubled Pagis, such...
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Artists of Terezin: Petr Ginz

Artists of Terezin: Petr Ginz

Petr Ginz was sent to the Terezin ghetto when he was only 14 years old. During his stay in the ghetto he painted many paintings, and was also the editor of a secret youth magazine called "Vedem." 
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Glimpses of Jewish Life before the Holocaust

Glimpses of Jewish Life before the Holocaust

On the eve of WWII, the interwar Jewish world was creative and complex, a rich mosaic, full of change and hope for the future. Within a decade, most of Europe would be conquered by Nazi Germany. By 1945 two out of every three of these...
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Roots of Nazi Ideology

Roots of Nazi Ideology

Nazi ideology was total, in that it was a world view that claimed to explain everything about the world and how it functions.At its core, the Nazi world view was racist and biological, positing that the so-called “Aryan”...
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Artists of Terezin: Leo Haas

Artists of Terezin: Leo Haas

Many of the Jews sent to Terezin were prominent in the fields of culture: painters, artists, musicians, educators, philosophers and others. One of them was  Leo Haas, a German Jewish painter, who was deported to the Terezin ghetto...
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Teaching the Holocaust Using Sports

Teaching the Holocaust Using Sports

In the video, "Teaching the Holocaust Using Sports", ISHS staff member Sheryl Ochayon presents the story of Gretel (Margaret) Bergmann, an accomplished Jewish German athlete. Bergmann's remarkable story sheds light on...
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Antisemitism

Antisemitism

This Educator Video Toolbox is aligned to Echoes & Reflections, a comprehensive Holocaust education program that delivers professional development and a rich array of multimedia resources for middle and high school teachers....
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The Auschwitz Album - Guidelines for Educators

The Auschwitz Album - Guidelines for Educators

In this video, “The Auschwitz Album – Guidelines for Educators”, Dr. Na’ama Shik presents a rare, important piece of visual documentation of the workings at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination...
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Survivors' Return to Life - Part 1

Survivors' Return to Life - Part 1

In the video, "Survivors' Return to Life - Part 1", ISHS staff member Sheryl Ochayon presents the story of the survivors, from the moment of liberation to their experiences searching for family members and loved ones....
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Survivors' Return to Life - Part 2

Survivors' Return to Life - Part 2

In the video, "Survivors' Return to Life - Part 2", ISHS staff member Sheryl Ochayon presents the story of the survivors, following the fundamental dilemma - "What Now?" - through to life and culture within...
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Teaching the Holocaust Using Art

Teaching the Holocaust Using Art

In the video, "Teaching the Holocaust using Art", ISHS staff member Liz Elsby discusses various approaches to utilizing Holocaust art in teaching the Holocaust to your students. As she stresses, a teacher does not have to...
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The "Final Solution" - Jewish Life on the Brink of Death

The "Final Solution" - Jewish Life on the Brink of Death

This Educator Video Toolbox is aligned to Echoes & Reflections, a comprehensive Holocaust education program that delivers professional development and a rich array of multimedia resources for middle and high school teachers....
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What is the Holocaust?

What is the Holocaust?

What is the Holocaust? Who were its victims? When did it occur? What were the ghettos, and why were they established? How did the “Final Solution” evolve? Dr. David Silberklang offers a clear and concise introductory answer...
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The Development of the Final Solution

The Development of the Final Solution

In the video, "The Development of the 'Final Solution'", Dr. David Silberklang provides an overview of what came to be known as the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question", which ended in the murder of some...
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The Educational Philosophy of the International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem

The Educational Philosophy of the International School for Holocaust Studies, Yad Vashem

How can a vast subject like the Holocaust be taught effectively? How can we approach this often daunting, difficult subject? How do we avoid deterring our students, or even traumatizing them? This film presents two components of the...
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Poetry in Holocaust Education

Poetry in Holocaust Education

How do we teach the Holocaust using interdisciplinary methods? How can poetry, art, film, and literature contribute to the study of this complex subject? In this video Jackie Metzger, of the International School for Holocaust Studies...
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Teaching about the Perpetrators: A Case Study

Teaching about the Perpetrators: A Case Study

In the video, "Teaching about the Perpetrators: A Case Study", ISHS staff member Dr. Noa Mkayton broaches the difficult subject of the perpetrators in the Holocaust. Dr. Mkayton stresses the dangers in seeing perpetrators...
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Using Holocaust Testimony in the Classroom

Using Holocaust Testimony in the Classroom

In the video, "Using Holocaust Testimony in the Classroom", ISHS staff member Sheryl Ochayon discusses how we recommend choosing and using Holocaust testimony with your students. After first discussing the aspects unique...
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Using the Study Unit "Everyday Life in the Warsaw Ghetto - 1941" in the Classroom

Using the Study Unit "Everyday Life in the Warsaw Ghetto - 1941" in the Classroom

The Warsaw ghetto was the largest ghetto under Nazi rule, housing at its peak as many as 450,000 Jews. In this film Sheryl Silver-Ochayon presents the study unit for high school ages, “Everyday Life in the Warsaw Ghetto –...
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Teaching the Holocaust Using Photographs

Teaching the Holocaust Using Photographs

In the video, "Teaching the Holocaust Using Photographs", ISHS staff member Franziska Reiniger discusses how you can explore Holocaust photography with your students. Introducing some general points to keep in mind when teaching...
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Using Testimony Films in the Classroom - The Story of Ovadia Baruch

Using Testimony Films in the Classroom - The Story of Ovadia Baruch

Survivor testimony, in presenting the story of the individual, stands at the core of Holocaust education. With the passage of time, the irreplaceable experience of hearing a survivor speak first-hand – the empathy and emotional...
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Liberators and Survivors: The First Moments

Liberators and Survivors: The First Moments

This Educator Video Toolbox is aligned to Echoes & Reflections, a comprehensive Holocaust education program that delivers professional development and a rich array of multimedia resources for middle and high school teachers. This...
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