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Suggested Websites
33,400,000: The number of sites that come up when “Holocaust” is typed into Google search engine. Please
choose your sources carefully.
 WASHINGTON STATE HOLOCAUST EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER - www.wsherc.org
Information on local programs and upcoming events • testimonies, bios and photos of local Holocaust survivors •
lesson plans and activities • suggested resources by grade level • teaching trunks • Speakers Bureau • Writing and
Art Contest • library • blog with genocide-related news and educational projects shared by teachers and students
 Anne Frank Museum Amsterdam - www.annefrank.org
Interactive monument – “Anne Frank Tree” • Activities, teacher guides, timelines • Exhibits online
 Facing History and Ourselves- www.facing.org
Lesson plans & activities on a variety of issues that touch upon human rights, genocide, stereotyping, and culture •
Online teacher seminars • Professional development opportunities
 Jewish Foundation for the Righteous (JFR)- www.jfr.org
Profiles of non-Jewish people who helped to rescue Jewish people during the Holocaust • Rescuers searchable by
visual map • Professional development opportunities • Teaching materials
 Jewish Partisans Educational Foundation (JPEF) - www.jewishpartisans.org
Online videos and interviews with partisans • Teacher guides and activities on partisans and resistance • Virtual
bunker to explore • Professional development for educators
 Simon Wiesenthal Center – Museum of Tolerance- http://motlc.wiesenthal.com
Online exhibits • Teaching Materials – timelines, glossary, 36 questions
 Teaching Tolerance – Southern Poverty Law Center- www.teaching.org
Free teaching kits on Gerda Weismann-Klein, History of Intolerance in America, and others • guides for parents and
teachers • Free magazine subscription • Grants available for teachers
 United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) - www.ushmm.org
Holocaust encyclopedia • Exhibits online • Teaching materials available for viewing and download • Online videos
and podcasts • Professional development opportunities • animated maps • For information on genocide – visit the
USHMM’s “Committee on Conscience”
 USC Shoah Foundation Institute - http://dornsife.usc.edu/vhi/
Database of testimonies searchable by keyword • testimonies of Rwandan survivors
 Yad Vashem – Jerusalem - www.yadvashem.org
Online exhibits • Teaching materials • Righteous Among the Nations - Information and biographies • Lists of names
and information on victims, including tracing services • International programs