NBJC/JMM Best Practices in Holocaust Education
CJE Suggested Resources
The following resources are just a sample of the collection available for loan from the Center for Jewish Education.
Anne Frank
Anne Frank: The Diary of A Young Girl – Class Set of 33 copies.
Inside Anne Frank’s House: An Illustrated Journey Through Anne’s World
The photographs compiled in this book are vivid and moving. Experience the house and its relics and see photos of Anne’s family and their friends, as well as the people who helped them and the changing Amsterdam neighborhood they lived in.
Anne Frank in the World
This book provides a portrait of Anne’s life and gives an account of historical developments between 1929 and 1945. The changes in Germany after Hitler took power in 1933 and daily life in occupied Holland after 1940 forced people to make a choice: collaborate, resist or remain passive
Anne Frank Remembered – Book & video
The Story of the woman who helped to hide the Frank family.
Video runs 117 minutes
Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary
In over one hundred pictures, Anne’s life before she was forced into hiding is uncovered. We can imagine her hopes, her fr3eams. Photographs and excerpts from her diaries expose the worsening political situation and oppressive conditions that marked the last years of her life.
The Diary of Anne Frank
A gripping drama of survival and the human spirit. This film from 1959 is the classic dramatization of Anne Frank’s story.
B/W video runs 151 minutes
Dear Kitty
An educational film for middle-school aged children, this film aims to make historical facts understandable to the viewer. Atrocities are not shown. The start and the end of this film lie in the present: Anne Frank’s former school now painted with quotations from the diary.
Video runs 25 minutes
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Curricular Unit
This curriculum, developed for high schoolers, relates Anne Frank:the Diary of a Young Girl to a number of different themes including Prejudice, propaganda, events in the diary and Anne Frank, the writer.
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They Were There – survivors and other eye-witnesses
Hasidic Tales of the Holocaust – Yaffa Eliach
Derived by the author from interviews and oral histories, these eighty-nine original Hasidic tales about the Holocaust provide unprecedented witness, in a traditional idiom, to the victims’ inner experience of “unspeakable” suffering.
Leap Into Darkness: Seven Years on the Run in Wartime Europe Leo Bretholz
The true experiences of one of Baltimore’s own Holocaust Survivors. (Who is also on the BJC’s Holocaust Survivors’ Speakers Bureau
Life Reborn:Jewish Displaced Persons 1945-1951
This valuable resource contains scholarly reports and personal testimonies. It is a book that celebrates the collective triumphs of these creative, intelligent, and courageous people. The experiences of the Holocaust survivors, the perspectives of child survivors, and significant research from top scholars in the field combine to convey the history of this unprecedented period of rebirth.
Notes from the Warsaw Ghetto: The Journal of Emmanuel Ringelblum
Ringelblum, a young and promising social historian on the eve of WWII was in Geneva when the Germans invaded Poland, he chose to return to Warsaw, to the Ghetto and there to amass, from a wide variety of sources, the notes in this journal.
The notes were hidden by Ringeblum, bried in two sections within the Ghetto – the first part was found in September 1946 and the second in December 1950. The documents were saved, the story was to be revealed to the world; but Ringelblum himself did not survive.
Schindler’s Legacy – Elinor J. Brecher
Through their own words and more than 100 personal photographs, we learn the truth of their experiences with Schindler, their incredible day-to-day survivial, and their ultimate triumph of rebuilding lives, reclaiming family, and recording their memories for future generations.
Witness: Voices from the Holocaust – Joshua M. Greene & Shiva Kumar
First-person accounts of twenty-seven witnesses, including Jews, Gentiles, Americans, a priest and others. Stories of life under the Nazis, in the ghettos, concentration camps and death camps. They recount the mixed emotions that accompanied liberation and persisted in the years following the Holocaust.
Memories of Kristallnacht: More than Broken Glass
The sound of broken glass on the eve of November 9, 1938 will be forever etched in the colletive memory. Through archival footage, photographs and first hand interviews with witnesses, this video forms a sharp portrait of the time and the events.
Video runs 57 minutes
Liberation 1945: Testimony
Here are the eyewitness accounts of the liberation of the concentration camps in 1945. Survivors who had yearned for rescue and liberators who were hardened combat veterans recall how they were equally unprepared for the moment of liberation.
Video runs 73 minutes
Survivors Among Us
A production of WBAL TV, in conjunction with the BJC, the Associated and The Harry & Jeanette Weinberg Foundation. This outstanding hour-long documentary about Holocaust survivors here in Baltimore shares their experiences, memories and, for one survivor, a return visit with the woman who saved his life.
DVD runs 60 minutes
One Survivor Remembers
Through a series of interviews, photographs and footage shot in the actual locations of her memories, Gerda Weissman Klein takes us on a journey of survival through one of the most devastating events in the history of mankind. (CJE also has Klein’s book, All But My Life)
Video runs 39 minutes
We Were There:Jewish Liberators of the Nazi concentration camps
The profound account of Jewish liberators of the Nazi concentration camps. A powerful story of the love and renewal that sprang up between the Jewish GI’s and the victim of the camps.
Video runs 30 minutes
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Children and the Holocaust
Hana’s Suitcase Karen Levine
In March 2000, a suitcase arrived at a children’s Holocaust education center in Tokyo, Japan. On the outside, in white paint, were the words: Hana Brady, May 16, 1931, and Waisenkind – the German word for orphan.
Children who saw the suitcase on display were full of questions. Who was Hana Brady? What happened to her? They wanted the center’s curator to find the answers…
I Wanted to Fly Like a Butterfly: A Child’s Recollections of the Holocaust Naomi Morgenstern
A easy to read yet moving memoir of a child’s Holocaust experience in which she, at one point, wants to “fly like a butterfly”
Ten Thousand Children: True Stories told by children who escaped the Holocaust on the Kindertransport. Anne L. Fox & Eva Abraham-Podietz
The remarkable experiences of these fortunate children are dramatically brought to like in this collection of genuine, first-person accounts, presented by authors and real-life Kinder Anne L. Fox & Eva Abraham-Podietz (CJE also has the Teacher’s Guide for this book)
Au Revoir Les Enfants
Louis Malle’s autobiographical account of a boy’s first friendship – and his discovery of the real world. The secret of the identity of a young boy’s new school-friend will soon be revealed to the Nazis and change the young boys’ lives forever.
Video runs 103 minutes
I Never Saw Another Butterfly
Based on the book of the same title (also in CJE’s collection) containing the drawings and poems of children at the Terezin concentration camp in Czechoslovakia during 1942-1944. Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the camp’s liberation, the program includes documentary footage shot in Prague and at Terezin, and presents a fictionalized account of one of the hundred children (of 15,000 who passed through the camp) who survived the war.
Video runs 26 minutes
The Children from Villa Emma
This authentic docu-drama recreates the exciting rescue of a group of Jewish children from the Nazis by a group of righteous gentile of a small village in Northern Italy. Shot on location, this poignant film incorporates actors, rare archive footage and moving interviews with the fortunate survivors.
Video runs 57 minutes
The Children Who Cheated the Nazis
The recollections of children who were transported to England from Germany’s occupied territories during WWII
Video runs 50 minutes
Rediscovering My Childhood:Memoirs of a Child Survivor
Max Amichai Heppner, the child survivor in the video, revisits locales and people involved in his rescue from the Holocaust. The process helps uncover the reason behind the events that Max remembered but were unclear because he lacked adult perspective.
Many aspects of Max’s survival parallel the experiences of Anne Frank, who for many years lived near Max.
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