The Holocaust Center has partnered with the Seattle Times Newspapers In Education (NIE) Program to create and publish two series of articles. The articles are geared towards students in grades 7-12. Each series includes a teacher guide.
Stories Among
Us: Personal Accounts of Genocide
Published in the Seattle Times on Wednesdays, April 9 - June 11, 2008, this 10-article series focuses on the stories of individuals in our community directly affected by genocide during the past century.
Articles in Series:
- Introduction
- Mannig's Story: A Survivor of the Armenian Genocide
- Morgan's Story: The Roma/Sinti
- Magda's Story: An Auschwitz Survivor
- Peter's Story: A Dutch Holocaust Survivor
- Frieda's Story: A Czech Holocaust Survivor
- Marie's Story: A Witness to the Long-term Consequences of the Rwandan Genocide
- Selena's Story: A Survivor of the Bosnian Genocide
- Agnes' Story: From Sudan to Seattle
- "What can we learn from the stories of Holocaust Survivors?" - Holocaust Writing and Art Contest Winners
- includes background information, discussion questions, activities, and suggested resources for each of the above articles.
FREE CD of "Stories Among Us" - to receive these articles and the teacher guide on cd, please email your request (include the title of the series "Stories Among Us"), your name, and mailing address to info@wsherc.org.
Studying the Holocaust: Resistance
Rescue, and Survival
Appearing in the Seattle Times from April 19 - June 2, 2005,
these 14 articles explore the Holocaust and issues relevant to today: moral
courage, civil liberties, and social responsibility. Integrated into these
themes are stories of local survivors. The teacher guide offers additional
background information, quotes from local survivors, activities, and suggested
resources. For grades 7-12.All articles and corresponding teaching materials are available below in pdf format. These materials are also available as a free cdrom.
FREE CDROM of "Studying the Holcocaust" - to request this cdrom, please email your name, mailing address, and request (please include the title of the series: "Studying the Holocaust") to info@wsherc.org.
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Intro to Teacher Guide
Chapter 1 - Overview and Intro to the Holocaust
Chapter 1 - Teacher Guide
Chapter 2 - Rise of Hitler and the Nazi Party
Chapter 2 - Teacher Guide
Chapter 3 - The Nuremberg Laws: Increasing Isolation and Persecution
Chapter 3 - Teacher Guide
Chapter 4 - Jewish Victims of the Holocaust
Chapter 4 - Teacher Guide
Chapter 5 - The "Other" Victims of the Holocaust: Roma & Sinti (Gypsies), Poles,
Jehovah's Witnesses, Homosexuals, and the Handicapped
Chapter 5 - Teacher Guide
Chapter 6 - Nazi Propaganda
Chapter 6 - Teacher Guide
Chapter 7 - Auschwitz-Birkenau
Chapter 7 - Teacher Guide
Chapter 8 - Raoul Wallenberg
Chapter 8 - Teacher Guide
Chapter 9 - Danish Rescue
Chapter 9 - Teacher Guide
Chapter 10 - Kindertransport
Chapter 10 - Teacher Guide
Chapter 11 - Resistance
Chapter 12 - Spiritual Resistance
Chapter 11 & 12 - Teacher Guide
Chapter 13 - Holocaust and Human Rights
Chapter 13 - Teacher Guide
Chapter 14 - What is Liberation?
Chapter 14 - Teacher Guide
