Learning Environment

Educational Journey beyond the Image
In this accompanying website to the Photo Archive, we follow the remarkable story of survivors, through use of photographs from the immediate postwar period. From the moment of liberation and the first steps in the hope of locating relatives and their old homes, we accompany the survivors through to the realization that their old world had ceased to exist, and finally - to a new meaning and a new home. For each photograph, we highlight the background to these stories, augmenting them with testimonies and memoirs, to try and understand the micro- and macrocosm in which they were taken. What is this moment captured on film? What is its historical background? Who are the people in the photograph? What are the educational questions to be asked?
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Children in the Ghetto
This interactive website is about children and for children. The website describes daily life in the ghettos during the Holocaust from the children’s perspective, and attempts to present this complex experience in a way that is accessible to children. This project strives to demonstrate that despite the grave trials and tribulations, there were those who fought to maintain human dignity and a functioning society based on spirituality, culture and care for one’s fellow man.
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Concise Encyclopedia
This website provides topical, authoritative information on key Holocaust-related terms, places and figures. Fully cross-referenced, these entries include related photographs, documents, testimonies and other online resources.
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Seven Poems, Seven Paintings
A Teacher's Guide to Selected Holocaust Poetry This unique teacher's guide is intended for poetry, art and literature teachers interested in a more artistic approach to teaching the Holocaust. It includes seven Holocaust-related poems, accompanied by original artist's impressions of these poems. Each poem includes discussion points for the teacher.
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Animated Exhibition: The Bericha
Survivors’ Journey Towards a New Life The bericha [Hebrew] refers to the organized attempts, during 1944-1948, to collect Jewish survivors in Europe and bring them to pre-state Israel. This site features an animated exhibition, interactive map and educational discussion material on the subject.
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Journey of Discovery
Educational Activities with Pages of Testimony Pages of Testimony serve as symbolic tombstones, providing a unique and significant memorial for individuals who were killed in the Holocaust. “Journey of Discovery” is an interactive exploration of Pages of Testimony from Yad Vashem’s online databases, outlining how these documents can be taught.
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Yom Hashoah
Educational Materials for Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day This website features a variety of age-appropriate educational materials in English and in other languages, including ceremonies, lesson plans, encyclopedia entries, and guidelines for educators on how to prepare Holocaust remembrance days.
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January 27, 2007 – International Holocaust Remembrance Day
January 27 has been designated by the United Nations as the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. On this special site, we provide short video testimony from four Israeli survivors, along with useful links to educational materials. Also included is a new ceremony in English, German and Italian, as well as guidelines for preparing ceremonies.
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Interactive Map: Main Camps and Killing Sites
Interactive map of the main Nazi camps and killing sites, including information on the sites, an overview article on the “Final Solution” and a collection of related items for further research.
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Use of Testimony in Holocaust Education
Within the context of Holocaust education, testimony - both written and oral - serves as a vital bridge between historical fact and human story. This document explores the potential applications for testimony in the classroom, and outlines guidelines for proper, age-appropriate use.
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Reader of Short Stories
This unit is designed to provide teachers of English with some ideas on how to introduce Holocaust-related stories in their English classes. It features five hand-picked short stories and literary pieces, as well as general guidelines for educational discussion and teaching the material in the classroom.
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The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Program
January 27 has been designated by the United Nations as the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. On this special site, we provide short video testimony from four survivors, as well as electronic notes for speakers – classified by theme – in English, Spanish and French.
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Journey to Poland
More than 18,000 students will journey to Poland this year, and visit Holocaust memorial sites. This site offers historical background on the locations most often visited during study seminars to Poland, including cities whose Jewish communities were destroyed, concentration camps and extermination centers.
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Between the Worlds
Social Circles in the Theresienstadt Ghetto This website accompanies the educational CD ROM of the same name. It follows the world of the Jews in the ghetto during the Holocaust, focusing on the various age groups and sub-cultures that lived in the ghetto: children and parents, men and women. The site has a lesson plan with activities geared for pupils in middle and high school.
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"Echoes and Reflections"
Accompanying website to the similarly named multimedia kit. The website follows the kit’s ten chapters, explaining key words and complementing each chapter with encyclopedia entries, photographs, documents and related links for the School’s website.
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