For a fuller treatment of ideas and concepts developed in this guide, see
Facing History and Ourselves Resource Book: Holocaust and Human
Behavior.
Other books of interest available from Facing History and Ourselves include:
- Elements of Time: a companion manual to the Facing History
videotape
collection of Holocaust testimonies-the result of a five-year collaborative
project between Facing History and the Fortunoff Video Archive at Yale University
made possible through the vision and support of Eli Evans and the Charles H.
Revson Foundation. The book includes transcriptions of the videos along with
essays by some of the many scholars who have addressed Facing History conferences.
- I Promised I Would Tell: Sonia Weitz's poetry and remembrances of
life in
the Krakow Ghetto and various concentration camps including Plaszow and Auschwitz.
For more information about bringing the history of the Holocaust to the
classroom,
contact the national offices of Facing History and Ourselves:
16 Hurd Road
Brookline, MA, 02146
(617)232-1595
222 N. LaSalle
Suite 1414
Chicago, IL, 60601
(312)726-4500
296 West Terrace
Altadena, CA 91001
(818)798-9221
Kenrick Hall
Christian Brothers Univ.
650 E. Parkway
S. Memphis, TN, 38104
(910)725-5855
225 W. 34th St.
Suite 1416
New York City, NY 10122
(212)868-6544
Other national organizations that provide information on teaching the history
of
the Holocaust include:
- Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Center of Holocaust Studies
Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith
823 United Nations Plaza
New York City, NY 10017
(212)490-2525
- Simon Wiesenthal Center
9760 West Pico Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90035
(310)553-9036
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
100 Raoul Wallenberg Place SW
Washington, D.C. 20024
(202)488-0400
The following books can also be used by students and teachers to explore
specific
topics and/or concepts highlighted in this guide:
- Bar-On, Dan. Fear & Hope: Three Generations of the
Holocaust. Harvard
University Press, 1995.
- Berenbaum, Michael. The World Must Know: The History of the
Holocaust as
Told in the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Little Brown, 1993.
- Block, Gay and Malka Drucker. Rescuers: Portraits of Moral Courage
in the
Holocaust. Holmes and Meier Publishers, Inc., 1992.
- Browning, Christopher. Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101
and the Final
Solution in Poland. HarperCollins, 1992.
- Dwork, Deborah. Child With a Star. Yale University Press,
1991.
- Hilberg, Raul. Perpetrators, Victims, Bystanders
HarperCollins, 1992.
- Isaacson, Judith. Seed of Sarah. University of Illinois
Press, 1991.
- Langer, Lawrence. Holocaust Testimonies: The Ruins of
Memory. Yale
University Press, 1991.
- Levi, Primo. Survival in Auschwitz, trans. by Stuart Woolf.
Macmillan, 1993.
- Rittner, Carol and Sondra Myers, ed. The Courage to Care: Rescuers
of Jews
During the Holocaust. New York University Press, 1986.
- Vishniac, Roman. A Vanished World. Schocken Books, 1983.
- Wiesel, Elie. Night. Hill and Wang, 1960 (paper, Avon).
See also:
- Social Education, Volume 59, Number 6, October, 1995, "Teaching About
the
Holocaust."