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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.
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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.