Resources

Our Resources

Each of these trunks comes in plastic bins that are easily portable. 

Many of the resources are created by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Trunks #1-6 are geared to high school or upper middle school

Teaching Trunk #1: Introduction to the Holocaust (High School)

--Wall posters: artifacts from the Holocaust 9 full-color, 24x36 on hangers

--Gallery walk: photos and note-taking guide

--Path to Nazi Genocide  38-minute film: note-taking guide (produced by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum)

--Photo analysis activity: (students understand how many citizens brought about the persecution of Jews and others during Holocaust times)

Teaching Trunk #2: Night by Elie Wiesel

  --60  copies

  -- Lesson plans from the US Holocaust Memorial Museum

  --Timeline cards for the life of Elie Wiesel in context of the Holocaust

  -- Reading comprehension activity (can be used for emerging readers)

 Teaching Trunk #3 I Have Lived a Thousand Years: Growing up in the Holocaust

--27 copies of the Holocaust memoir by Livia Bitton-Jackson

-- Study guide with literary elements

 Teaching Trunk #4  Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl

  --25 copies of this classic book

  --Study guide, paper-based only

 Teaching Trunk #5 Salvaged Papers Young Writers Diaries of the Holocaust

 --25 copies of this compilation of Holocaust diaries

  --Lesson plans to learn about memoirs, diaries

 Teaching Trunk #6 All But My Life by Gerda Weissman Klein

--25 copies of Gerda’s memoir

 --Discussion guide/Film of her life

Trunks #7-14 are geared to middle school students or emerging/ESL readers

(the timeline activity and Path to Nazi Genocide film activities can be included)

Teaching trunk #7: Introduction to the Holocaust Middle School

--30 copies of What Was the Holocaust? by Gail Herman. Lexile 720

-- Gallery walk: photos: Laminated photos and note-taking guide

 Teaching Trunk #8 Diary of Anne Frank

--30 hard copies of the play version of Diary of Anne Frank

--Lesson plan and materials

--Timeline cards of events in the Frank family along with Holocaust and WWII events

-- Anne Frank film

-- Primary source photos of Anne with analysis activity

 Teaching Trunk #9 My Survival: A Girl on Schindler’s List by Rena Finder

  --76 copies; 103 pages; AR book 6.5, 970 Lexile

 -- Study guide with literary elements; timeline activity cards

Teaching Trunk #10: Prisoner B-3087 class set by Alan Gratz

  --25 copies telling the story of survivor Yanek Gruener

 --AR Level 4.9; Lexile Level 760; brief study guide

Teaching Trunk #11 Refugee by Alan Gratz

   --110 copies of the fictional book telling the story of three refugees, including a German Jew in the Holocaust

   --Lesson plans and materials; AR level 5.3; 800 Lexile level

Teaching Trunk #12 Elly:  My True Story of the Holocaust

  --30 copies of this Holocaust memoir by Elly Berkovits Gross

  --5.1 AR Book Level, 2 points; 730 Lexile Level; 100 pages

 Teaching Trunk #13 Devil’s Arithmetic by Jane Yolen

  --30 copies in a class set; fictional account in Holocaust camp

  -- Study guide with literary elements; 4.6 AR Level; 730 Lexile level

Teaching Trunk #14: Literature Circles for emerging or Middle School readers

The following titles are available:  (Study guides for Number and Soldier books)

               --Number the Stars (12 copies)

              -- Boy on the Wooden Box (14 copies)

              -- Waiting for Anya (6 copies)

               --Behind the Bedroom Wall (6 copies)

              --Jacob's Rescue (3 copies) (for emerging readers)

              --When the Soldiers Were Gone (3 copies) (for emerging readers)

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