Education and the Holocaust

Educational resources for students and teachers.

  • Escapees from Auschwitz

    Return to Resistance | Witnesses Escapees from Auschwitz “On April 7, 1944, two Slovakian Jews, twenty-six-year-old Alfred Weczler and twenty-year-old Rudolf Vrba, escaped from Auschwitz. They provided the first eyewitness account of the concentration and extermination camp to the western world, an account that set off the chain of events that led to the Nuremberg…

  • Numbers of Refugees That Canada (Didn’t) Accept

    Return to Resistance | Witnesses Numbers of Refugees That Canada (Didn’t) Accept “During the twelve years of Nazi terror, from 1933 to 1945, while the United States accepted more than 200,000 Jewish refuges; Palestine, 125,000; embattled Britain, 70,000; Argentina, 50,000; penurious Brazil, 27,000; distant China, 25,000; tiny Bolivia and Chile, 14,000 each, Canada found room…

  • Cybrary Learning Lab

      Online Education Imagine Peace Notes from the WebSource How The Cybrary is Organized Welcome to the Cybrary at remember.org The Cybrary is organized into six separate sections. We are doing our best to organizeand deliver the information you ask for. Many have requested a search capability here, but thatis beyond our economic and sleep…