Resources for Teachers

Lesson Plans
Forging Freedom
This lesson plan uses the text Forging Freedom: A True Story of Heroism during the Holocaust, by Hudson Talbott, to explore how choices individuals make can have great meaning, not only to themselves, but to those around them.

Forging Freedom: A True Story of Heroism during the Holocaust, the story of Jaap Penratt, a teenager in Amsterdam, captures the courageous actions of a young man who saved more than four hundred Jewish people.  Penratt was recognized by Yad Vashem as one of the Righteous Among the Nations.

Web Resources

Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
http://www.jewishpartisans.org
In the education section, you will find various materials about the Jewish partisans, including: Study guides, both topical and biographical, on partisans; Videos complementing the study guides narrated by Larry King and Ed Asner; Ask A Partisan - Ask your own questions to our partisan panel.

Human Rights Education Databases
http://www.hrea.org
Human Rights Education Associates (HREA) is an international non-governmental organization that supports human rights learning; the training of activists and professionals; the development of educational materials and programming; and community-building through on-line technologies.

State of California Center for Excellence on the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide, Human Rights
http://www.csuchico.edu/mjs/center/
Site contains a "model curriculum" published by the Department of Education Press which supports the curriculum and instruction described in the History–Social Science Framework.  Teaching resources offered include photographs and other documents pertaining to the Holocaust, Armenia, Rwanda and other human rights violations worldwide.