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West Virginia Commission For Holocaust Education

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Whether you need additional resources for a planned lesson or need help getting started, here’s where you can find everything you’ll need.  

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Looking for research as part of a project or paper? Need something that can really make a presentation impactful? Our materials can help!  

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Yad Vashem Exhibit

During the Holocaust, some teachers felt it was their duty not only to educate and instill values in the classroom, but to live by those ideals, even at the risk of their lives. Yad Vashem has recognized those teachers as Righteous Among the Nations.

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Ken Burns In The Classroom

Ken Burns and his collaborators have been creating historical documentary films for more than forty years. Known for a signature style that brings primary source  documents, images, and archival video footage to life on screen, these films present the opportunity to pose thought-provoking questions for  students, and introduce new ideas, perspectives, and primary sources.  you'd like to show.

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Downloadable Documents

The Holocaust in Perspective (pdf)Download
The Aftermath By Edith Rechter-Levy (pdf)Download
When The Lights Go Down By Mark Gudgel (pdf)Download
Anne & Margo Frank's PenPal Letters (pdf)Download
A Mother's Courage by Edith Rechter-Levy (pdf)Download
The Briefcase (pdf)Download

Educational Videos

Memories Of The Holocaust

The lives of millions were lost in a war that was built solely on hatred and prejudice. But even those that survived lost the life they knew, or even worse -- the life thy might have had. In this harrowing short film, Edith Rechter-Levy, founder of this very Commission, tells her life story of escaping, hiding, and barely surviving the invasion of the Nazi forces throughout the 1930s and 40s. And through the voice of her own granddaughter, she imparts the history of the life she never got. The history of her stolen childhood.

The Life of the Jews in Germany After the Nazi Rise to Power

In the early 1930s, some 500,000 Jews lived in Germany – less than 1 percent of its total population. Most defined themselves as part of the German nation, but the Nazis' anti-Jewish policies turned their world upside down. This video describes the life of the Jews in Germany in the 1930s and the main events that impacted their activities in every sector: the boycott of Jewish businesses, the Nuremberg Laws, the November pogroms (Kristallnacht), and more.

Courage+Valor - Stories that Inspire: Miep Gies

Miep Gies, one of the great heroes during the dark days of the Nazi Holocaust, is highlighted in the sixth short film from "Courage+Valor: Stories that Inspire" from two-time Academy Award®-winning Moriah Films. Gies was one of the small team of courageous souls who helped to hide Anne Frank and her family during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands during World War II. Following the war, it was Gies who found Anne’s diary and helped bring to the world one on the most inspiring accounts of the resilience of the human spirit in the face of great evil.   In 1994, Gies accepted the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s Medal of Valor. She was introduced by Oscar®-winning actress Whoopi Goldberg.

I Have Never Forgotten You

 

Narrated by Academy Award®-winning actress Nicole Kidman, the feature length documentary examines the life of Simon Wiesenthal. It features interviews with longtime associates, government leaders, friends and family members, many of whom have never discussed the legendary Nazi hunter on camera. What drove him to pursue this dangerous and thankless task? What kept him going when for years the odds were against his efforts? What is his legacy today?

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