SS.912.W.7.8

From 1933 to 1945, the Nazi party gained political power in Germany. During this reign, the Nazi rule restricted those who they considered inferior, especially the Jewish people. In this lesson, students will analyze primary and secondary sources to analyze how the Nazi government used the law to systemically take rights away from its citizens, and create a society that would carry out the Holocaust.

Type: Lesson Plan

In this lesson, students use primary and secondary sources to examine life under Stalinist Soviet Union, before, during and after World War II. This resource helps support Florida’s State K-12 Holocaust Education Mandate.

Type: Lesson Plan

The purpose of this resource is to introduce students to the causes and effects of the Holocaust. Students will examine the ways in which Europe’s Jewish community was affected by the Holocaust. This resource introduces historical facts pertaining to Holocaust history and shows how they affected innocent people. Relating the experiences of a Jewish child and teenager, Esther Krinitz’s art and story provide a powerful lens through which students can view and reflect on important issues and themes raised by the Holocaust. Students will have an opportunity to work with powerful visuals and analyze personal experiences of a Holocaust survivor through guided discussion, writing activities, and research. This resource helps support Florida’s State K-12 Holocaust Education Mandate.

Type: Lesson Plan

This Museum Guide is designed to help educators prepare their students for a meaningful study of the Holocaust. It can be used in combination with a visit to The Florida Holocaust Museum (FHM) or as part of your standards-based world history instruction. This Guide is built around 3 concepts: Remember, Educate, Empower. The activities in the guide correspond with all 3 concepts and support incorporating Holocaust education into lesson plans, with or without a field trip to the Museum. Through this Guide, students will work with factual information and authentic stories of those who experienced the Holocaust first hand. It also includes numerous images from the FHM’s collection, a detailed bibliography, and a glossary. Educators can use this resource in its entirety or build their own lessons around excerpts that are most appropriate for their students. 

Through this resource:

• Students will examine the ways in which Europe’s Jewish community was affected by the Holocaust.
• Students will consider the long-term impact of the Holocaust on the 20th and 21st centuries.
• Students will examine how the Nazi dehumanization of Jews allowed them to commit atrocities.
• Students will learn to work with primary sources: artifacts and personal stories from the Holocaust. 

This resource helps support Florida’s State K-12 Holocaust Education Mandate.

Type: Teaching Idea

The Florida Holocaust Museum and USC Shoah Foundation have joined efforts to create digital classroom resources built around video testimony of local Holocaust Survivors on an educational platform called IWitness. IWitness is a free educational website offering audiovisual testimonies for use across the curriculum. Through this partnership, lessons are built based on video testimonies of Holocaust survivors who settled in Florida. This activity was created by The FHM’s Curator of Education & Director of Research, Ursula Szczepinska. It provides students with information about various forms of resistance (violent, non-violent) among Jews during the Holocaust, with the focus on non-violent forms. The activity features video testimony of Helen Fagin and Sam Schryver.

Lesson objectives:

• Students will examine the ways in which Europe’s Jewish community was affected by the Holocaust.
• Students will consider the long-term impact of the Holocaust on the 20th and 21st centuries.
• Students will examine how the Nazi dehumanization of Jews allowed them to commit atrocities.
• Students will learn to work with primary sources: artifacts and personal stories from the Holocaust.

Type: Worksheet