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CLASSROOM LESSONS

Bring the world to your classroom with this PBS website featuring curated free, standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more just for teachers and educators.

9.1.22 – 10.31.22
ArtsPower Plays – Streaming videos of theatrical performances like Anne of Green Gables and Laura Ingalls Wilder will be available to schools for viewing.

RECOMMENDED READING

YOUTH TITLES

"Boy From Buchenwald: True Story of a Holocaust Survivor" by Robbie Waisman
"Catherine’s War" by Julia Billet
“Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport” by Emma Carlson Berne
“Eva's Story: A Survivor's Tale by the Stepsister of Anne Frank” by Eva Schloss (w/Evelyn Julia Kent)
​“Four Perfect Pebbles: A True Story of the Holocaust” by Marion Blumenthal Lazan and Lila Perl
“Hans and Sophie Scholl: German Resisters of the White Rose” by Toby Axelrod
"Hidden" by Loic Dauvillier
“His Name Was Raoul Wallenberg: Courage, Rescue and Mystery During World War II” by Louise Borden
"Nicky and Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued" by Peter Sis
"Number the Stars" by Lois Lowry
"Once" by Morris Gleitzman
"Somewhere There is Still a Sun" by Michael Gruenbaum
"The Book Thief" by Marcus Zusak
"The Devil's Arithmetic" by Jane Yolen
"The Hiding Game" by Gwen Strauss
"The Nazi Hunters: How a Team of Spies and Survivors Captured the World's Most Notorious Nazi" by Neal Bascomb
ADULT TITLES

"48 Hours of Kristallnacht" by Mitchell G. Bard
“A World Erased: A Grandson's Search for His Family's Holocaust Secrets” by Noah Lederman
"Alicia: My Story" by Alicia Appleman-Jurman
"Auschwitz: True Tales from a Grotesque Land" by Sara Nomberg-Przytyk
"Night" by Elie Wiesel
"Rutka’s Notebook: A Voice from the Holocaust" by Rutka Laskier and Yad Vashem
“Searching for Anne Frank: Letters from Amsterdam to Iowa” by Susan Goldman Rubin
​“Survivors Club: The True Story of a Very Young Prisoner of Auschwitz” by Michael Borenstein and Debbie Bornstein Holinstat
“The Holocaust by Bullets: A Priest's Journey to Uncover the Truth Behind the Murder of l.5 Million Jews” by Father Patrick Desbois
"The Nazi Officer’s Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust" by Edith Hahn Beer and Susan Dworkin
"The World Must Know" by Michael Berenbaum
"Two Rings: A Story of Love and War" by Millie Werber and Eve Keller
​"Until We Meet Again: A True Story of Love and Survival in the Holocaust" by Michael Korenbilt and Kathleen Janger
“We Were the Lucky Ones” by Georgia Hunter
"Words to Outlive Us" by Michał Grynberg

SUGGESTED VIEWING

"1945" (2017)
"A German Life" (2016)
"Four Winters: A Story of Jewish Partisan Resistance and Bravery in WWII" (2020)
"I Do Not Care If We Go Down In History As Barbarians" (2018)
"Kapo in Jerusalem" (2015)
"Naked Among Wolves" (2015)
"The Flat" (2011)
"The Last of the Unjust" (2013)
"Who Will Write Our History" (2018)
"Witness Trilogy: Shoes" (2012), "Brutus" (2016), "Violin" (2017)

INTERVIEWS

Holocaust survivor David Wolnerman
Listen to David’s story in his own words as he recounts how he was only 13 years old when the Nazis took him to a labor camp from his birthplace in Mondzejow, Poland, which was a town of approximately 10,000, half of whom were Jews. David recounts the antisemitism growing up, going from a labor camp to Auschwitz-Birkenau where he worked in the crematorium. He learned about the medical experiment performed at Auschwitz-Birkenau and contrived to be transferred. David speaks briefly of liberation, coming to America and going into business with his brother-in-law. Read David’s story in A Lucky Lie: The Power of 18, available on Amazon.com.
watch david's interview
Jennie Wolnerman's story
Listen to Jennie Wolnerman’s story in her own words. David’s wife Jennie came from Bedzin, Poland. She described her family and their well-to-do life before the Nazis came. Jennie was sent to a labor camp and two sisters joined her there in 1943. When the Russians got close to the factory, the prisoners were marched from Germany to Prague, Czechoslovakia. She and seven other young women escaped into the woods, begging and/or stealing food from nearby farms. At one house, Jennie was befriended by an anti-Nazi German/Czech who hid Jennie and the other girls in her attic for about two weeks until the Americans came.Jennie ends the interview with details of her post-liberation and post-WWII life.
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