Holocaust+Books+and+Videos

=__**Reading for Students**__= //A Doctor in Auschwitz by Gisella Perl// //A Plea for the Dead by Eli Wiesel// Alicia: My Story //by A. Appleman-Jurman// //All But My Life// by Gerda Weissmann Klein Bondi's Brother by Irving Roth //Dawn// by Eli Wiesel //Day// by Eli Wiesel //Deadly Carousel: A Singer's Story of the Second World War// by Monica Porter //Destined to Witness// by Hans J. Massaquoi //Diary of a Young Girl// by Anne Frank //Five Chimney's// by Olga Lengyel //Hannah's Suitcase// by Karen Levine //Holocaust by Bullets// by Father Patrick Desbois Images From the Holocaust: A Literature Anthology by J. Brown, E. Stephens and J. Ruibin //In My Hands Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer// by Irene Gut Opdyke In the Shadow of Death: A Young Girl's Survival in the Holocaust by Miriam Greenstein Last Lullaby:Poetry from the Holocaust Edited and Translated by Aaron Kramer Literature of Destruction Editted by D. Roskies //Maus I and II// (Graphic Novels) by Art Spiegelman //Milkweed// by Jerry Spinelli //Night// by Eli Wiesel //Number the Stars// by Lois Lowry //On Both Sides of the Wall// by Vladka Mead //Plot: the Secret Story of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion// by Will Eisner Refuge Denied:The St. Louis Passengers and the Holocaust by Sarah A. Ogilvie and Scott Miller Rena's Promise: Two Sisters in Auschwitz by Gelissen and Macadam //Salvaged Pages, Young Writers Diaries of the Holocaus//t by Alexandra Zapruder //Sarah's Key// by Tatiana de Rosnay //Schindler's List// by Thomas Keneally //Survival in Auschwitz// by Primo Levi //Survivors: True Stories of Children in the Holocaust// by Allan Zullo and Mara Rozines //The Book Thief// by Marcus Zusak //The Boy in the Striped Pajamas// by John Boyne //The Cage// by Ruth Minsky Sender //The Devil's Arithmetic// by Jane Yolen //The Drowned and the Saved// by Primo Levi The End of the Holocaust by A. Rosenfeld //The Girl in the Green Sweater: A Life in Holocaust's Shadow// by Krystyna Chiger, David Paisner The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom //The Pianis//t by Wladyslaw Szpilman //The Sunflower: On the Possibilities and Limits of Forgiveness// by Simon Wiesenthal //Tapestry of Hope// by Alice Kern //Triumph: The Untold Story of Jesse Owens and Hitler's Olympics// by Jeremy Schaap //We Are Witnesses: Five Diaries of Teenagers Who Died in the Holocaust// by Jacob Boas //Wishing Upon a Star: A Tale of the Holocaust and Hope// by Eline Hoekstra Dresden //Your Name is Renee':Ruth Kaap Hartz's Story as a Hidden Child in Nazi-Occupied France// by Stacy Cretzmeyer //Yellow Star// by Jennifer Rozines Roy

=__**Teaching Resources**__= Echoes and Reflections: A Multimedia Curriculum on the Holocaust

__**Further Reading (for Teacher's Background Knowledge)**__
//Monuments Men: Allied Heroes, Nazi Thieves, and the Greatest Treasure Hunt in History// by Robert M. Edsel //Arts in Nazi Germany: Continuity, Conformity, Change// Edited by Jonathan Huener and Francis R. Nicosia //Nazi Ideology and the Holocaus//t by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum //Not your Father's Antisemitism: Hatred of the Jews in the 21st Century// Edited by Michael Berenbaum //Hitler's Jewish Soldiers: The Untold Story of Nazi Racial Laws and Men of Jewish Descent in the German Militar//y by Bryan Mark Rigg //The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich// by William Shirer //IBM and the Holocaust// by Edwin Black //Holocaust Poetry// by H. Schiff //Making Sense of the Holocaust: Lessons from Classroom Practice// by S.A. Schweber //Teaching Holocaust Literature and Film// by R. Egglestone and B. Langford //Teaching the Representation of the Holocaust// by M. Hirsch and I. Kacandes //The World Must Know: The History of the Holocaust as Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum// //Tapestry of Hope: Holocaust Writing for Young People// by L. B.N. Watts //What Matters: The World's Preeminent Photojournalists and Thinkers Depict Essential Issues of our Time// by David Cohen

__**Videos**__
Shoah By Claus Lanzmann (January 10, 1986) NPR Discussion (25th Anniversary 1-10-11) Video Through Yahoo Search Miracle at Midnight Assisi in Silence The hidden network by the clergy of Assisi that saved persecuted Jews during WWII As Seen Through These Eyes Study Guide for As Seen Through These Eyes Maya Angelou narrated documentary of artists who documented their experience in concentration camps Escape from Auschwitz (PBS) Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State (PBS) Learning resources The Train Art Train - Rose Valland (Watch at Fancast) Rape of Europa Looted/Stolen Art (Based on book Monuments Men) Irena Sendler: In the Name of their Mothers PBS video about Polish Catholic woman who relocated Jewish children and kept their names so they could be reunited with their families The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler No. 4 Street of Our Lady Story of a Polish Woman who his her Jewish neighbors. Based on diary of a survivor Schindler's List Paperclips Defiance Sophie's Choice Anne Frank Remembered Escape from Sobibor (1987) Victory (1998) I'm Still Here (Documentary based on Salvaged Pages) Holocaust (1978 miniseries)

__**Holocaust Films for Children and Teens**__
List compiled by Professor Lawrence Baron, Department of History at San Diego State University The films can be rented from Netflix or purchased from the Social Studies School Service, www.socialstudies.com

//Before the Fal//l (2004, PG 13, High school for Hitler Youth) //Swing Kids// (1993, PG 13 German teens in Hitler Youth and jazz revolt) //The Wave// (1981 PG, psychological experiment with teens) //The Wave// (2008 NR, psychological experiment with teens) //Sarah and the Squirrel// (1982 NR) //The Hangman// (1964 - available on youtube) //The Diary of Anne Frank// (1995 Japanese anime) //The Island on Bird Street// (1997 PG-13 boy survives on his own in ghetto) //Jacob the Liar// (1999, PG 13, Jacob tells lies to help morale in the ghetto) //A Friendhsip in Vienna// (1988, PG, Jewish and Christian friends resist prejudice) //Au revoir, Les Enfants, aka Goodbye Children// (1987, PG) //Anne Frank: The Whole Story// (2001 TV-14) //The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank// (1988 NR) //Diary of Anne Frank// (1959 NR) //Diary of Anne Frank// (2009 NR) //Hidden in Silence// (1996, PG, rescue of Jews by Polish girl) //The Hiding Place// (1975, PG, rescue of Jews by evangelical Dutch Christians) //Miracle at Midnight// (1998, G, rescue of Jews in Denmark) //Miracle at Moreaux// (1986, G, rescue of Jewish children by nuns) //Schindler's List// (1993, R, industrialist saves over 1,000 Jews) //The Great Dictator// (1940, NR, Jew exchanges places with Hitler-like dctator) //Life is Beautiful// (1997, PG-13, father tells son survival is a camp is a game) //The Nasty Girl// (1991, PG 13, German girl exposes her town's Nazi past) //The Boy in Striped Pajamas// (2008, PG-13, German boy befriends Jewish boy) //Jonah Who Lived in the Whale, aka Look to the Sky// (1999, 6th grade and up) //Naked Among Wolves// (1963, 6th adn up, boy is hidden by camp inmates) //Amen// (2002, NR, Christian resistance, but Papal indifference) //Bonhoeffer: Agent of Grace// (2000, NR, Pastor plots against Hitler) //Sophie Scholl: The Final Days// (2005, NR, students resist Nazism) //Defiance// (2008, R, //Jewish partisans in occupied Russia)// //Uprising// (2001, PG-13, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising) //A Call to Remember// (1997, how the parents' trauma is passed on to their sons) //Devil's Arithmetic// (1999, PG-13, Teen time travels to concentration camp) //Everything is Illuminated// (2003, PG-13, Journey to Ukraine revives the past) //I Love You, I Love You Not// (1996, PG-13, Teen lives grandmother's memories) //Anne B. Real// (2003, PG-13, young rapper inspired by Anne Frank) //Evil in Clear River// (1988, PG-13, mother battles teacher who denies Holocaust) //Forget Me Not: The Anne Frank Story// (1996 skinhead meets Anne Frank) //Freedom Writers// (2007, PG-13, Inner city teens inspired by Anne and Miep) //Not in My Town// (1997, PG-13, Montana town resists Neo-Nazis) //Skokie// (1981, PG-13, Holocaust survivors try to prevent Neo-Nazi protestor) //X-Men// (2000, PG-13, modern day persecutors want to exterminate mutants)
 * __Nazi Indoctrination and Susceptibility__**
 * __Holocaust Animated Shorts and Features__**
 * __Life in the Ghetto__**
 * __Jewish Christian Friendships__**
 * __Anne Frank Movies__**
 * __Rescue__**
 * __Humor and Satire__**
 * __Children in Concentration Camps__**
 * __Christian Resistance__**
 * __Jewish Resistance__**
 * __Reliving A Past One Has Not Lived__**
 * __The Past in the Present and the Future__**