Comments on: The Best Sites For Learning About The Holocaust http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/04/19/the-best-sites-for-learning-about-the-holocaust/ ...For Teaching ELL, ESL, & EFL Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:45:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (weekly) | My Squirrelly View of Education http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/04/19/the-best-sites-for-learning-about-the-holocaust/comment-page-1/#comment-26591 My Weekly Diigo Bookmarks (weekly) | My Squirrelly View of Education Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:48:14 +0000 http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=3554#comment-26591 [...] The Best Sites For Learning About The Holocaust | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… [...] [...] The Best Sites For Learning About The Holocaust | Larry Ferlazzo’s Websites of the Day… [...]

]]> By: Eric Roth http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/04/19/the-best-sites-for-learning-about-the-holocaust/comment-page-1/#comment-8661 Eric Roth Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:05:03 +0000 http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=3554#comment-8661 Thank you for writing and sharing that annotated best of the Holocaust Education sites. It's far more helpful and practical than just a long list from prominent and international museums that I recently saw. I'm going to go ahead and share your posting on FB and Twitter too. Thank you for writing and sharing that annotated best of the Holocaust Education sites. It’s far more helpful and practical than just a long list from prominent and international museums that I recently saw.

I’m going to go ahead and share your posting on FB and Twitter too.

]]> By: David http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/04/19/the-best-sites-for-learning-about-the-holocaust/comment-page-1/#comment-8657 David Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:05:12 +0000 http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=3554#comment-8657 Larry, Great resources as always. I'd just like to add a few things. I've taught a number of holocaust related books like "Night" and "Number the Stars" but by far, Hana's Suitcase is the most powerful and full of teaching opportunity. Real story - nice website too. http://www.hanassuitcase.ca/ Probably the best movies on the holocaust are Night and Fog and Shoah (very long but with great interviews). The Nat. Film Board of Canada http://nfb.ca has a great doc. also - Memorandum I don't think the Simon Weisenthal Centre (there are a number), made your list. http://www.wiesenthal.com By far the most important book to me on the holocaust is Martin Gilbert's exhaustive catalogue "The Holocaust". No embellishment, just facts of what happened. It might also be useful to think about Jane Elliot's ground breaking Blue Eyed / Brown Eyed experiments with her own Grade 3s - done many years ago. But the best thing I've found for teaching is to make it real and bring someone to class that has a personal connection and story to tell. Or have students do a personal biography of a person who lived through the Shoah. David Larry,

Great resources as always. I’d just like to add a few things.

I’ve taught a number of holocaust related books like “Night” and “Number the Stars” but by far, Hana’s Suitcase is the most powerful and full of teaching opportunity. Real story – nice website too. http://www.hanassuitcase.ca/

Probably the best movies on the holocaust are Night and Fog and Shoah (very long but with great interviews). The Nat. Film Board of Canada http://nfb.ca has a great doc. also – Memorandum I don’t think the Simon Weisenthal Centre (there are a number), made your list. http://www.wiesenthal.com

By far the most important book to me on the holocaust is Martin Gilbert’s exhaustive catalogue “The Holocaust”. No embellishment, just facts of what happened.

It might also be useful to think about Jane Elliot’s ground breaking Blue Eyed / Brown Eyed experiments with her own Grade 3s – done many years ago.

But the best thing I’ve found for teaching is to make it real and bring someone to class that has a personal connection and story to tell. Or have students do a personal biography of a person who lived through the Shoah.

David

]]> By: Margaret Lincoln http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/04/19/the-best-sites-for-learning-about-the-holocaust/comment-page-1/#comment-8051 Margaret Lincoln Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:24:03 +0000 http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=3554#comment-8051 The Museum Fellowship Teaching Resources site at http://mandelproject.us offers lesson plans and book reviews which have been submitted by teachers who have been affiliated with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The materials may be used by educators seeking meaningful educational resources about the Holocaust. Lesson plans have been successfully field-tested and include additional online support documents. The Museum Fellowship Teaching Resources site at http://mandelproject.us offers lesson plans and book reviews which have been submitted by teachers who have been affiliated with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The materials may be used by educators seeking meaningful educational resources about the Holocaust. Lesson plans have been successfully field-tested and include additional online support documents.

]]> By: Edna http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/04/19/the-best-sites-for-learning-about-the-holocaust/comment-page-1/#comment-4576 Edna Mon, 20 Apr 2009 08:46:21 +0000 http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=3554#comment-4576 Hi Larry Thanks for that! You might like to add a link to the educational resources page at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum in Israel www1.yadvashem.org/education/educational_materials.html Hi Larry

Thanks for that!

You might like to add a link to the educational resources page at Yad Vashem, the Holocaust Museum in Israel www1.yadvashem.org/education/educational_materials.html

]]> By: californiateacherguy http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/04/19/the-best-sites-for-learning-about-the-holocaust/comment-page-1/#comment-4569 californiateacherguy Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:40:35 +0000 http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=3554#comment-4569 I'm reading <i>Number the Stars</i> with two of my sixth-grade classes. Some of these resources will be wonderful additions to our study of life during the Holocaust. Thank you! I’m reading Number the Stars with two of my sixth-grade classes. Some of these resources will be wonderful additions to our study of life during the Holocaust. Thank you!

]]> By: David Truss http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2009/04/19/the-best-sites-for-learning-about-the-holocaust/comment-page-1/#comment-4566 David Truss Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:06:39 +0000 http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/?p=3554#comment-4566 Hi Larry, I've just gone to a few links so far and WOW- once again you've done a fantastic job collecting resources and creating a very worthy 'best of'. On Remembrance Day last year I wrote a blog post with my reflection on visiting the Holocaust Museum in Israel, and I've shared it with the link to my name above. I think this poem is a great conversation starter for students: "In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist; And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist; And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew; And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up." Pastor Martin Niemöller Thanks again! Hi Larry,

I’ve just gone to a few links so far and WOW- once again you’ve done a fantastic job collecting resources and creating a very worthy ‘best of’.

On Remembrance Day last year I wrote a blog post with my reflection on visiting the Holocaust Museum in Israel, and I’ve shared it with the link to my name above.

I think this poem is a great conversation starter for students:

“In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;

And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;

And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;

And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up.”
Pastor Martin Niemöller

Thanks again!

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