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Yom ha-Shoah Holocaust Memorial Day
Teacher’s Guide

Yad Vashem Materials

Available from the League of Human Rights are books and other Holocaust related publications. We also have the following available on a loan basis, contact Julie Borst, Education Officer of the League for Human Rights — 416-633-6224, ext. 145.

Educational Materials (E)
Student activity book (S)
Teaching Unit (U)
Discussion and Study Questions (DS)
Teacher’s Guide (G)
Bibliography (B)
Footnotes (F)

E TG Elementary Hanneleh’s Rescue

Hannaleh’s Rescue the story of Hannaleh, a Jewish child in the ghetto and how she was saved video — (25 minutes)

Because We’re Jews Illustrations, Yad Vashem 1997

E TG DS B F

The Image of Polish Jewry Between the Two World Wars 1919-1939 Ephraim Kay, Yad Vashem, Jersualem 1995

U TG DS B

Holocaust Responsa in the Kovno Ghetto (1941-1944) pilot Ephraim Kay, Yad Vashem 1995

TG

The Legend of the Lodz Ghetto Children (grades 10-12) Yad Vashem, Jerusalem 1997 includes seventeen posters with illustration, teacher’s handbook

B F

Desecraters of Memory, Confronting Holocaust Denial (2 copies) Ephraim Kay , 1997

TG DS

Liberation Holocaust Literature Short prose works

U DS

I Never Even Lived described as a teaching unit on how women are represented in Holocaust literature it review four works: “Crossing the Red Sea” by Zofia Romanowiczowa, “Eugenia” by Ida Fink, “Tzili” by Aharon Appelfeld, “Katerina” by Aharon Appelfeld. (2 copies)

E TG

Return to Life — the Story of the Holocaust Survivors — CD-ROM database includes maps, time line and a lexicon of names and terms (2 copies); Kit includes video 60 minutes (1 copy only), guide (2 copies); large sized posters; booklet

S, TG

Everyday Life in the Warsaw Ghetto-1941 Student Workbook — a Study unit for Junior High and High School Students (27 education department slides)

TG

To Bear Witness — an Educational Kit for Teaching the Holocaust and Observing Yom Hashoah 39 large photos in black and white

E TG

But the Story didn’t end that way Video 20 minutes, 18 large posters, Teacher’s guide

E CD ROM only

Lest we forget

E Videos only

Witnesses at the Eichmann Trial 45 minutes , a selection of testimonies including the Nazi occupation of villages, the ghettoes and the extermination camps.

Stolen Childhood 30 minutes 3 Holocaust survivors related their experiences as children during the Nazi occupation

Outcast Jewish persecution in Nazi Germany 1933-1938 40 Minutes

Journals

Holocaust and Education Proceedings of the First International Conference Yad Vashem, Jerusalem 1999

Books

Morgenstern , Naomi. Yad Vashem Jerusalem, 1998 I Wanted to Fly Like a Butterfly a child’s recollections of the Holocaust

Music suggestions for a Holocaust Memorial Assembly:

THE SOUND TRACK FROM SCHINDLER’S LIST
Available through HMV stories
On CD only approximately $23.99

CANTOR LOIS DANTO — SONGS OF THE HOLOCAUST AND HEROISM
CDs or tapes may be ordered from the following stores:
Matana Judaica 248 Steeles Avenue West 905-731-6543
Negev Importing 3509 Bathurst Street 416-781-9356
Israel’s—the Judaica Center 897 Eglinton W. 416-256-1010
CD approximately $22.95
Tape approximately $12.50

Tapes or CDs may be borrowed from the League for Human Rights of B’nai Brith Canada by prior arrangement

Contact: Julie Borst, Education Officer 416-633-6224 ext. 145 or
e-mail jborst@bnaibrith.ca

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