Lesson Plans and Learning Environments

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These lesson plans cover some of the central themes of the Holocaust, detailing how they can be approached in the classroom. This page will be updated from time to time, as the staff at the International School for Holocaust Studies prepares new material.

A MATTER OF CHOICE - Righteous Among the Nations

What is The Holocaust? Interactive Timeline

Children in the Ghetto - Interactive learning environment

Eva Heyman - Interactive Diary

The Walls Tell Stories: Cultural Life in the Vilna Ghetto

Educational Activity Using Biographical Videos and Additional Resources

Artifacts as a Reflection of Family Stories in the Holocaust

The Auschwitz Album - A Learning Environment

Buczacz: One of the Untold Stories… - A Learning Environment

Prewar Jewish Life in Zagreb

The Jewish Community in Salonika - A Learning Environment

The Shtetl - A Learning Environment

Seven Poems, Seven Paintings

Babi Yar - A Learning Environment

Berdichev: One of the Untold Stories… - A Learning Environment

Teaching about Auschwitz through Art

Online Educational Units

Masechtot (Tractates of the Mishna) - A Learning Environment

The Individual and Togetherness in Survivor Testimony

''Witnesses and Education'': Pedagogical Guidelines

Lesson plan based on Hannah Gofrit's story "I Wanted to Fly Like a Butterfly"

"Jupp Has Remained Inside Me" - Identity in the Story of Shlomo Perel

"We are the Polish Jews"

1944 – Interactive Map and Timeline

360° virtual tour for learning about, and teaching, the Holocaust

Between the Worlds: Social Circles in the Theresienstadt Ghetto - A Learning Enviorment

Buczacz: One of the Untold Stories… - A Learning Environment

Connecting with Holocaust survivors

Creative Use of Holocaust Imagery in the Classroom

Dan Pagis' Poetry

A proposal for an educational activity following two episodes from Yad Vashem's YouTube series - "Questions We Wanted to Ask - Conversations with Holocaust Survivors"

Escape from Europe - the "Bericha" - A Learning Environment

FLASHES OF MEMORY: Learning about the Holocaust through Photography

German-Nazi Aims and The Apparatus of Auschwitz-Birkenau Through Photographs

Janusz Korczak - A Learning Environment

Learning about Auschwitz-Birkenau

Lesson Plan - Through His Eyes - Being a German Jew in the 1930s

Lesson Plan: Yizkor (Memorial) Books and the Shtetl

Lesson plan on the film: "Thanks to Good People" - The Story of Holocaust Survivor Yona Amit

Liberation and After: Educational Perspectives - A Learning Enviorment

Liberation and Survival

Liberation and the Return to Life through Photographs and Testimony "Despite It All, I Am Alive"

Mutual Assistance Within the Ghetto Walls

Prewar Jewish Life in Zagreb

Propaganda and the Visual Arts in the Third Reich - lesson plan

Rachel Auerbach and the Soup Kitchen in the Warsaw Ghetto - A Learning Environment

"It Was Relief, Not Joy" – Reflections on Liberation and Postwar Life

Righteous Among the Nations - A Learning Environment

Righteous Among the Nations: Chiune (Sempo) Sugihara

Schindler's List as an Educational Tool

Warsaw, Poland, Jews around a seder table in a shelter on 6 Leszno St. in the ghetto, reading from the Passover Haggada

Spiritual Resistance During the Holocaust

Stories from the Voyage of the St. Louis

Study Pages: Reading Primary Sources

Teacher’s Guide on the Otwock Children’s Home

Teaching Liberation through Art

Teaching about Perpetrators: A Case Study about a Deportation of German Jews from Düsseldorf to Riga

Teaching about the Holocaust through Children's Diaries

Teaching the Holocaust Through Poetry

Testimonies of survivors from around Europe about the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp | Learning environment | Interactive map

The Human Spirit in the Holocaust - A podcast for students

The Iasi Pogrom

The Official Poster for Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day 2011

The Official Poster for Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day 2012

The Official Poster for Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day 2013

The Sacrifice of Isaac as a Motif in Holocaust Poetry

The Story of Simcha - the story of Holocaust survivor Simcha Holzberg

The Wagon of Birkenau

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - Interactive learning environment

Through Our Eyes - Children Witness the Holocaust: Interactive Learning Environment

To Remember Their Faces - A Learning Environment

Two Rings: A Story of Love and War

Using Photographs to Teach about the Holocaust - A Learning Environment

Written in Pencil in the Sealed Freightcar – A Poem by Dan Pagis (1930-1986)

“Malinas” - The Jews of Vilna in Hiding

Childhood Before and During the Holocaust

Lesson Plans and Learning Environments

New Yad Vashem website redirection