Teaching with survivor testimony and primary sources helps students understand the complexity of the Holocaust, along with honoring the memory of both survivors and victims. Collection of 5 videos.
Video length: 13 minutes
Items that belonged to those victims and survivors—as well as other materials that relate to their stories, experiences, and histories form the heart of the Museum’s collections. This comprehensive collection contains millions of artifacts including documents, photos and films, art and music, personal effects, and testimonies. Primary sources anchor Museum classroom resources.
Video length: 13 minutes
One of the most powerful ways of remembering the Holocaust and honoring its victims is to bring the voices of survivors to your students. These voices are important to fulfilling one of the Museum’s guidelines for teaching about the Holocaust–translating statistics into people. By incorporating survivor testimony in your classroom, students become witnesses and honor both the memory of survivors and victims of the Holocaust.
Video length: 9 minutes
This video shows how to use the Museum’s collection of survivor testimonies and artifacts to incorporate personal stories into classrooms.
Video length: 19 minutes
Each person who lived during the Holocaust had a unique experience and the context they were in mattered. There is no “one” Holocaust story, but millions of unique experiences. Learning about these experiences helps us understand the complexity of the Holocaust and the impact that war and the Holocaust had on so many lives. This video can be used in a classroom with students.
Video length: 40 minutes
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum collects evidence of the Holocaust, the most well-documented crime in history. This video shows how the Museum preserves and shares the collection and how teachers can incorporate these primary sources into their classrooms.
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