Educational Materials - Education
Summary: Why, What, and How to Teach about the Holocaust
The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and murder of Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. A continent-wide genocide, it destroyed not only...
82 Names: Syria, Please Don’t Forget Us
The documentary film 82 Names: Syria, Please Don’t Forget Us traces Mansour Omari, a survivor of torture and imprisonment in Syria, through his quest for memory and justice. When Mansour was released...
IHRA Recommendations for Teaching and Learning about the Holocaust
Each IHRA Member Country is committed to encouraging the study of the Holocaust in all its dimensions. However, teaching about this complex and sensitive topic appropriately – and adapting it to the...
How to Teach about the Holocaust in Schools
The Recommendations aim to deepen the understanding of the Holocaust by asking crucial questions concerning the historical context of the Holocaust, its scope and scale and why and how it happened....
Online Teaching Resource for Genocide of Sinti and Roma
Between 250,000 and 500,000 European Roma and Sinti were murdered during the Holocaust - victims of racist persecution by the German Nazis and their fascist allies. But for many, this genocide remains...
The Holocaust and Other Genocides
A central concern raised by many educators and students is why teach and learn about the Holocaust when there have been so many other instances of mass suffering of target groups throughout history...
Revised Guidelines on Visiting Holocaust-Related Sites
These recommendations, first published in 2001 as guidelines, address the substantial increase in youth study tours at Holocaust-related sites, both authentic and non-authentic. Download the...
Guidelines for Study Trips to Holocaust-Related Authentic and Non-Authentic Sites
Visits to authentic and non-authentic sites create special learning experiences and opportunities different from those in the classroom. A visit can also raise the "status" of a subject in the eyes...
What to Teach about the Holocaust
The Recommendations aim to deepen the understanding of the Holocaust by asking crucial questions concerning the historical context of the Holocaust, its scope and scale and why and how it happened...
Using Social Media in Holocaust Education
Section 1: Practical Guidelines for Holocaust Educators Social media is a rapidly expanding form of communication and community in our world and in education more specifically. Holocaust educators...