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January 27

The United Nations General Assembly designated January 27—the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau—as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.��On this annual day of commemoration, the UN urges every member state to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism and to develop educational programs to help prevent future genocides.

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What was the Holocaust?

In 1933 the Nazi Party took control of the country of Germany. The Nazis hated Jewish people and tried to make life hard for them. Later, during World War II (1939–45), they decided to kill as many Jews as possible. Their program became known as the Holocaust. It took the lives of about 6 million Jewish men, women, and children.

Jewish people were not the only ones who died in the Holocaust. The Nazis also killed Roma (Gypsies), homosexuals, mentally and physically disabled people, and anyone who dared to speak out against them.

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PUSD Digital Library - Sora Book List

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Read Aloud Book �Anne Frank: �A Kid's Book About Hope �(Mini Movers and Shakers)

Children’s biography about the life of Anne Frank and her experience as a child during the Holocaust.

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Grade K-2

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Read Aloud Book �I Am Anne Frank �Read by Author Brad Meltzer

Anne Frank dreamed of being a published author. Anne’s father, who survived the Holocaust, had Anne’s diary published so she could live out her dream and show the world the truth.

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Grade 3-5

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Kids Meet Holocaust Survivor

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Grade K-12

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Teaching About the Holocaust

Teacher Guidelines Here

Rationale & Learning Objectives Here

Before teaching about the Holocaust, the following materials and resources are designed to help navigate the topic and important parts to note.

Teachers

Please watch the following video and read the guidelines and objectives provided by the USHMM.

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Lesson Plans

Holocaust Timeline Activity

Teaching with Holocaust Survivor Testimony

The Holocaust:�History & Memory

History of Antisemitism and the Holocaust

Build a timeline that

integrates personal stories, key historical events, and Nazi laws to how and why the Holocaust

happened.

Examine Holocaust survivor testimonies as both personal memories and as deliberately-created

historical records

Lesson and resources to support a virtual tour of the museum.

History of antisemitism to better understand how prejudice and hate speech can contribute to violence, mass atrocity, and genocide.

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Grade 6-12

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Virtual Tour of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum�with Google Arts & Culture

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Theme for Holocaust Memorial Day 2024�Fragility of Freedom

Freedom means different things to different people. What is clear is that in every genocide that has taken place, those who are targeted for persecution have had their freedom restricted and removed, before many of them are murdered. This is often a subtle, slow process. The ten stages of genocide, as identified by Professor Gregory Stanton, demonstrate that genocide never just happens. There is always a set of circumstances which occur, or which are created, to build the climate in which genocide can take place and in which perpetrator regimes can remove the freedoms of those they are targeting.

Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. 49 years after the Holocaust ended, 19 years after the genocide in Cambodia, the world stood by as Hutu extremists shattered the fragile freedom in Rwanda, following decades of tension and violence, culminating in the murder of over one million Tutsis in just one hundred days.

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Elie Wiesel

“I believe firmly and profoundly that whoever listens to a witness becomes a witness, so those who hear us, those who read us must continue to bear witness for us. Until now, they’re doing it with us. At a certain point in time, they will do it for all of us.”

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PUSD Board Approved Novel�Grade 9-12

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“For your benefit, learn from our tragedy. It is not a written law that the next victims must be Jews. It can also be other people. We saw it begin in Germany with Jews, but people from more than twenty other nations were also murdered. When I started this work, I said to myself, 'I will look for the murderers of all the victims, not only the Jewish victims. I will fight for justice.'