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Teaching with Testimony
Engage students in personal accounts from survivors with this collection of video testimony, survivor profiles, and a lesson plan.
Survivors and Witnesses: Video Testimony
This collection features powerful accounts of the Holocaust, told by survivors, rescuers, and witnesses, selected from USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive.
Explore the Partisans
Find interview transcripts, historical overviews, and primary source documents about a particular Jewish partisan or country.
Holocaust and Human Behavior
Explore the digital version of our core resource on the Holocaust. Find classroom-ready readings, primary sources, and short documentary films that support a study of the Holocaust through the lens of human behavior.
The Nanjing Atrocities
Explore this collection of lesson plans and student materials that place the Nanjing Atrocities within the larger context of World War II in East Asia.
Resources for Civic Education in California
Explore resources that meet the California History–Social Science Framework standards.
Resources for Civic Education in Massachusetts
Explore resources that meet the Massachusetts History and Social Science Framework.
Everyone Has A Story - Arn Chorn-Pond
Arn Chorn-Pond tells his story as a refugee from the Cambodian Genocide.
Eyewitness to Buchenwald
Leon Bass, an African-American soldier, describes his experiences entering the Buchenwald concentration camp in April 1945.
Heil Hitler: Confessions of a Hitler Youth
Alfons Heck recalls how he became a high-ranking member of the Hitler Youth. He talks about the importance of peer pressure and propaganda to Hitler's ability to recruit eight million German children to participate in the "war effort."
Monsters and Men: The Nazis at Nuremberg
Social psychologist James Edward Waller uses the stories of the Nazis at Nuremburg to discuss human capacity for evil.