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Historical Context + Resources

What Was the Holocaust?

 

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

https://www.ushmm.org/learn/holocaust

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Glossary

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/glossary

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Antisemitism

USHMM

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/antisemitism

 

Detailed explanations provided by Facing History and Ourselves.

https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/antisemitism-its-impacts

 

This serious 13 minute film introduces the historical roots of antisemitism from its origins in the early Christian church, on to the Holocaust, and into modern day.

https://www.ushmm.org/antisemitism/what-is-antisemitism/why-the-jews-history-of-antisemitism

 

Propaganda

https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/propaganda/home/what-is-propaganda

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Be an Upstander

From Bystander to Upstander

stopbullying.gov

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StPGbbBBrI0

 

Facing History

https://www.facinghistory.org/upstander

 

Rescuers

The USC Shoah Foundation iwitness link below will introduce you to a number of extraordinary individuals: rescuers and aid workers who during the Holocaust, Armenian, and Rwandan genocides, rescued those targeted for persecution.

https://iwitness.usc.edu/watch?searching=false&theme=58&clip=109&entry=0_ey008opl

 

Produced by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), this exceptional 18 minute video will introduce you to stories and individuals including rescuers and the rescued.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9Rp38NsnzU

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Saving the Children from the Holocaust. In 2014, 60 Minutes met Nicholas Winton, a British stockbroker who in 1939 traveled to Czechoslovakia and saved 669 children from the Holocaust.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKe0SMPzIVQ

 

They Risked Their Lives: Holocaust Rescuers, 24 minute film, courtesy generously granted to NCH by producer and photographer, Gay Block.

https://vimeo.com/242993684

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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center. Explore the stories of over 28,000 non-Jewish individuals (Christians, Muslims, and others) who risked their lives in order to rescue 1 or more Jewish people during the Holocaust. These honorees have met strict criteria to receive the coveted honor of Righteous Among the Nations.

https://www.yadvashem.org/righteous.html

Our mission is to educate the community using the lessons of the Holocaust. Further, to identify the people and the stories that demonstrate mans' humanity toward his fellow man within the context of Holocaust rescue; and, apply these examples of rare- but- extraordinary model behavior, to activate rescuer behavior in the present day. 

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