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Yad Vashem: Using Photographs to Teach About the Holocaust

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Photographs are an excellent way to teach about the horrors of the Holocaust. Using the information on this site, teachers can effectively plan lessons around historic photographs. Included is a video on how to teach using photos from...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: A Reader of Short Stories for High School Students

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Need help explaining the horrors of the Holocaust? Use these recommended short stories that were written by Jewish and non-Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. Each short story has a short biography of the author, summary of the story, and...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Written in Pencil in the Sealed Freightcar

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Dan Pagis experienced the horrors of the Holocaust as a young child and only addresses the trauma he experienced through poetry. In the poem "Written in Pencil in a Sealed Freightcar" he uses Genesis and the murder of Abel by Cain as a...