Describes the design and exhibits of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Located in Washington, DC, the museum was mandated by Congress and dedicated to revealing the truth of this event in history. (MDH)

This curriculum unit is designed to teach students how the Holocaust differed in Hungary, what conditions were like at the largest extermination camp (Auschwitz-Birkenau), and about people who risked their lives to save Hungarian and Polish Jews. The unit notes that students should already be acquainted with the rise of anti-Semitism in Germany…

Presents an interview with a Holocaust survivor as a means of showing how the interviewing process can support and personalize well-written historical fiction for children. (TB)

This personal response to German history by a professor attending a major conference at the University of Heidelberg reflects on the country's long history of education and research, the role of language in history, a speech urging tolerance by the Dutch woman who protected Anne Frank's family, and her reactions to a visit to the Dachau…

This unannotated bibliography on the Holocaust was prepared in the hope that it will be a tool for better understanding of this event. The 2,145 items in the bibliography are books found in the collections of the Library of Congress published between 1980 and 1992. All entries contain Library of Congress Call Numbers. The books are in various…

This project is the result of extensive research about the practical applications of "National Socialism and the Holocaust" in historical and political education in and outside schools and in educational work with young people. The multifaceted documentation, on CD-ROM, booklet and a Web site is aimed at a broad international and…

Appalled by a report stating that most Americans were unaware of the Nazi's decimation of European Jewry during World War II, a fifth-grade teacher began teaching a lesson about the Holocaust. Her students were astounded to learn that the Nazis had murdered 1.5 million children. Presenting the Holocaust to elementary-age children requires a…

These materials have been designed for teachers in order to help students make more connections in their learning about the Holocaust. Written to enhance and supplement existing units in world history and world literature curricula in a California high school, the following materials have been prepared for the project: small group presentations of…

This family history recounts the life and personal experiences of Marianne Wahnschaff Ballester who was born in the United States in 1929 to German parents. Marianne and her mother spent the World War II years in Stassfurt, Germany, and returned to the United States in 1946. The overview of her life includes a reunion with her father, attendance…

The beginning of organized European cooperation in adult education was the focus of a research study. A brief review of earlier research was conducted. Study findings indicated that, after World War II, Europe was less influential in issues of real significance in the world, with the Soviet Union dominating Eastern Europe and the center of power…

The countries of Hungary and Poland are steadily moving along the road of transition from their recent totalitarian past to modern capitalist democracies. Hungary and Poland are changing, developing economies based on new principles, resolving multiple social issues, and patching the projection from their history that still casts a shadow on the…

This curriculum project was designed primarily to be incorporated into a larger world history unit on the Holocaust and World War II. The project can be adapted for a lesson on 'situational ethics' for use in a philosophy class. The lesson requires students to examine a historical case and to write and discuss that particular case. The project's…

Examines educational policy formation in the Education and Religion branch of postwar Berlin's Office of Military Government relating to the "gymnasium," a potent symbol of elite German schooling tradition. As shown by West Berlin's conservative 1950s schooling policies, German education traditions were so powerful that neither Hitler's…

Buchenwald offers an omnipresent reminder that future success of political and economic reunification is related to slow, but necessary, healing of national wounds over dual legacies of Hitler and the Cold War. In midst of painful transitions, the living memorial of Buchenwald holds promise as a place where German youth might continue arduous…

Presents a historical review of German relations with European nations from the end of World War II until 1992. Claims that Chancellor Willy Brandt's efforts to improve East-West relations set the stage for German reunification. Contends that Germany's role in a united Europe has yet to be determined. (CFR)