'Always Remember Your Name': Here are museums and online resources to learn more about the Holocaust
KCRA 3 shares the remarkable Holocaust survival story of two Italian sisters in our documentary "Always Remember Your Name." Learn more about the Holocaust by visiting the websites of these leading organizations.
KCRA 3 shares the remarkable Holocaust survival story of two Italian sisters in our documentary "Always Remember Your Name." Learn more about the Holocaust by visiting the websites of these leading organizations.
KCRA 3 shares the remarkable Holocaust survival story of two Italian sisters in our documentary "Always Remember Your Name." Learn more about the Holocaust by visiting the websites of these leading organizations.
Italian sisters Andra and Tatiana Bucci were two of just 50 children under the age of 8 to survive the Auschwitz concentration camp complex where 1.1 million people were killed during the Holocaust.
KCRA 3 shares the Bucci sisters' remarkable survival story in our documentary "Always Remember Your Name." The documentary tracks their mission to tell their story over and over to ensure something like the Holocaust never happens again – speaking to students from Miwok Middle School in Sacramento to Italy and Auschwitz in Poland.
- Watch "Always Remember Your Name" here. (Video above: Books for children and young adults to learn about the Holocaust.)
Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, defines the Holocaust as the systematic “murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators.” Jewish communities also use the Hebrew term “Shoah” to refer to the Holocaust.
The Nazis also murdered more than 3 million Soviet prisoners of war and hundreds of thousands of Roma and Sinti. Many were also persecuted and killed over their sexual orientation, mental or physical disabilities, political activities and more.
Below are some resources to learn more about the Holocaust. Many offer online exhibits and teaching guides for educators as well. (This is not a definitive list.)
Yad Vashem
Jerusalem-based Yad Vashem consists of museums, exhibitions, monuments, sculptures on memorial sites.
“Our museums division brings Holocaust history to life through personal artifacts, historical narratives, and exhibitions that highlight the loss experienced by Jewish communities across Europe,” spokesperson Ashley Bartov said.
It also has an extensive website with online exhibits and educational resources, including “Ready2Print” exhibits.
Bartov said that Yad Vashem partners with countries around the world on Holocaust education. Its International Institute for Holocaust Education offers teaching seminars, specialized programs for law enforcement and lesson plans.
“Echoes & Reflections”
“Echoes & Reflections” was developed by Yad Vashem in partnership with the Anti-Defamation League and the USC Shoah Foundation.
It was founded in 2005 as a “comprehensive program that empowers teachers and students with the knowledge and tools to engage with Holocaust history,” Bartov said.
Its website includes a timeline of the Holocaust, lesson plans, student activities, webinars, online courses and a section called “students’ toughest questions” about the Holocaust.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is based on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
The museum's permanent exhibition about the history of the Holocaust spans three floors and takes one to three hours to visit. It features historical artifacts, video footage and personal stories and “offers a chronological narrative of the Holocaust.”
Its Holocaust Encyclopedia is the most visited online resource about the Holocaust with more than 950 articles in English and hundreds of them translated into 19 languages, according to the museum.
The museum also offers suggestions for educators to teach about the Holocaust, lesson plans and shares videos for classroom use.
USC Shoah Foundation
The USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive has more than 55,000 video testimonies of survivors and witnesses of the Holocaust. You can learn more here.
Jewish Family and Children’s Services Holocaust Center
The San Francisco Bay Area-based Jewish Family and Children’s Services Holocaust Center offers lesson plans and online exhibits about the Holocaust. The center established the California Teachers Collaborative for Holocaust and Genocide Education, a group of 14 institutions that work to train educators in lessons of history from the Holocaust and other genocides.
California has required Holocaust and genocide education to be taught in public schools since 1985, but there has been no systematic teacher training or standard curriculum.
A law newly signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom, Senate Bill 1277, makes the Teachers Collaborative for Holocaust and Genocide Education an official state program.
European Holocaust Research Infrastructure - Country Reports
EHRI is a consortium of archives, libraries, museums, memorials and research institutions that maintains a free online portal with access to Holocaust-related archive material that is held in Europe and elsewhere. Among its offerings are reports on Holocaust history by country.
International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance - Museum Database
Here is a database of more museums and monuments across the world where you can check if there is a museum near where you live. The list was compiled by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance. The alliance was founded in Sweden and is made up of 35 member countries.
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