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Lessons from the Holocaust: A New Generation Speaks Truth to Power

General Websites

Curriculum and Resources for Educators

USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History: www.sfi.usc.edu/teach_and_learn/for_educators/

USC Shoah Foundation/iWitness: “100 Days to Inspire Respect” http://iwitness.usc.edu/SFI/Sites/100days/ 

USC Shoah Foundation: https://sfi.usc.edu/ [includes testimonies from the Holocaust, Rwandan Genocide, Armenian Genocide, Nanjing Massacre, Rwandan Genocide, Guatemalan Genocide 

Holocaust Rescuers

Jewish Foundation for the Righteous: www.jfr.org

Yad Vashem: http://www.yadvashem.org/righteous/

Resistance

Jewish Partisan Education Foundation: www.jewishpartisans.org

Upstanders & Genocide Prevention

Not in Our Town/College: https://www.niot.org/project/notonourcampus

STAND: www.Standnow.org

End Genocide: www.Endgenocide.org

Connections between today’s immigration issues and the Holocaust: Rep. Beto O’Rourke, D-Texas and Jonathan Ryan, Executive Dir., Refugee & Immigrant Center, 2:52 mins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o77Piy0JxSo

Ten Stages of Genocide & Prevention/Genocide Watch: http://www.genocidewatch.org/genocide/tenstagesofgenocide.html

Genocide Prevention Task Force/United States Institute of Peace: www.usip.org/publications/genocide-prevention-task-force

United to End Genocide: www.endgenocide.org 

Film/USHMM, Rwandan Genocide: Defying Genocide www.ushmm.org

Film/USHMM, Darfur Genocide: Staring Genocide in the Face and In Darfur, My Camera Was Not Nearly Enough www.ushmm.org

U.S. Policy: Genocide Prevention Task Force Report: https://www.ushmm.org/confront-genocide/about/initiatives/genocide-prevention-task-force/genocide-prevention-task-force-view-and-download-the-report

U.S. Policy: Responsibility to Protect Working Group Report: https://www.ushmm.org/confront-genocide/about/initiatives/r2p

*Courtesy of Beth Lilach, Senior Director of Education and Community Affairs at the Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center