Synopsis Jews and African-Americans came to Pennsylvania in the 1600s, Jews as immigrants and African-Americans as slaves. Pennsylvania antisemitism soon rose. There is a long history of discrimination against African-Americans, Jews, Catholics and other groups in the state. Laws were enacted by the General Assembly to make various forms of discrimination illegal. Government and non-government…
Holocaust Historian Interviews: Four Voices That Started It All In the summer of 1993, I began looking for Holocaust historian interviews and transcripts. And decided to create my own. I traveled to Israel with a camera, a recorder, and a question I couldn’t shake: what does the Holocaust mean now, fifty years later, and what…
As the Chairman of the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education, I am pleased to post the Holocaust and Genocide Curriculum outlines recently approved by the Commission for kindergarten through twelfth grade. Comments and questions are welcome. NJ COMMISSION ON HOLOCAUST EDUCATION outline HOLOCAUST & GENOCIDE The following outline for Kindergarten through 12th grade was…
Return to Educate Yad Vashem Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Memorial Authority in Jerusalem is a depository of documents and memoirs on the Holocaust, mostly in German, Hebrew and Yiddish. It also issues the Yad Vashem Studies on the European Jewish Catastrophe and Resistance. The Centre de Documentation Juive Contemporaine in Paris and the Wiener Library…
Return to Holocaust historian interviews and transcripts My Professor Yehuda Bauer Hebrew University Holocaust audio interview began nervously as I set up my small H-8 camera in the quiet dark room. Little did I know how much I had to learn about teaching the Holocaust. Hebrew University Holocaust interview Yehuda Bauer was one of the…