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.

Holocaust Diaries Trunk

-- 10 hard copies/digital available (75 pages)

-- Excerpts of several teen diaries with analysis activities on word choice and content

Mira Kimmelman Essay and Art Contest

-- 10 copies of this Tennessee survivor's memoir to prepare essay or art projects for the Tennessee Holocaust Commission's annual contest: https://tnholcom.org/kimmelman-contest/

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

-- Timeline cards showing emergence of the Holocaust (events/laws/victim ID cards)

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

  --25 copies of this classic book

  --Study guide, paper-based only-- 

-- Timeline cards showing emergence of Holocaust (events/laws/victim ID cards)

 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

-- Timeline cards showing the emergence of the Holocaust (events/laws/victim ID cards)

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

--25 copies of Gerda’s memoir

 --Discussion guide/Film of her life

-- Collection of primary-source artifacts (maps, photos, badges)

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 featuring interview with Otto Frank and Miep Gies

-- 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

--   Devil's Arithmetic full-length film

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

The following titles are available:  (Study guides for Number, Soldier, and Wooden Box books, timeline cards for Wooden Box)

               --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 (8 copies) (for emerging readers)

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