Facing History helps educators expose students to sophisticated historical and literacy texts, including an impressive array of primary source materials. We deal with a variety of intellectual and philosophical concepts in our resources. Choose a Theme or Concept below to view the resources that are associated with that aspect of our work.
Maintained by a group of International Holocaust Researchers, this site explores the history of "Einsatz Reinhard" - code name for the systematic extermination of Polish Jewry during World....
8 minutes, black & white
Source: Alden Films This silent film is a dramatization of a group of children and their adult caretaker about to board a mobile gas van. As the four Nazi soldiers....
by Bernard Gotfryd
(Washington Square Press) This collection of autobiographical true stories illuminates the experiences of a teenage Polish boy before World War II, through the gathering....
These rare images, captured by Armin T. Wegner, reveal the horrific struggles of Armenians attempting to flee the genocide of their people. A second-lieutenant in the German army, Wegner was....
Maintained by the Armenian National Institute, this site highlights selected documents from U.S. and British archives that relate to the Armenian Genocide. These documents can be downloaded....
Maintained by The Genocide Education Project, TeachGenocide.org is an online resource library that includes downloadable lessons plans, survivor accounts, newspaper articles, maps,....
5 minutes
Source: ABC News This ABC News piece narrated by Peter Jennings originally aired in 1999, and gives a useful five minute overview of the Armenian Genocide, complete with excellent....
This lesson examines the ways in which historical evidence has been used to construct a narrative of what happened during the Armenian Genocide. It uses powerful first-hand accounts of the....
This lesson explores the challenges facing Armenians during the second half of the 19th century, as they advocated for equal rights within the Ottoman Empire. Students will consider the....
During the ninety-one years since the beginning of the Armenian Genocide, officials from the Ottoman government, and later from the Republic of Turkey have refused to acknowledge the mass....
This lesson is the first in a series of lessons examining the Armenian Genocide and its legacies. It can be used with Chapter 1 of Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization. The lesson....
This lesson is the last of four related lessons that focus on the Armenian Genocide and its legacies. It examines the role of the United States in world affairs. As American newspapers....
This lesson is the third of four related lessons that focus on the Armenian Genocide and its legacies. It examines the role nations play in one another's affairs. As American newspapers....
This lesson examines the range of choices that ordinary people and governments made when they confronted the evidence of genocide. What did people do when they leanred of the mass murder of....
This outline provides background information on the Armenian genocide, and can be used to help students connect this history to their studies of Nazi Germany and other 20th century examples....
This lesson introduces students to the challenges of seeking justice in the aftermath of genocide. Unlike the Holocaust, most of the primary perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide were not....
90 minutes
Source: Two Cats Productions This documentary explores the journey and struggle of the Armenian people—from their humble beginnings near the Middle East where they were identified....
35 minutes
Source: Facing History and Ourselves Arn Chorn relates personal experiences as a child during the Cambodian Genocide, making analogies between his situation and that of Anne Frank....
47 minutes
Source: Harpo Productions
Oprah Winfrey and Elie Wiesel walk through the grounds of Auschwitz, where Wiesel was interned at the age of fifteen. Wiesel describes his personal....
6 hours on 2 DVDs
Source: PBS Video This six-hour documentary television series commemorates the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. The series, which is co-produced by....
This site created by PBS explores Cambodian genocide survivor Arn Chorn-Pond's effort to heal the deep scars of Pol Pot's genocide by bringing Cambodia's once outlawed traditional music back....
18 minutes, discussion guide
Source: out of print Catherine Hanf Noren did the photography and narrative of the original book on which this book is based. Noren came from a middle-class....
This outline explores the connections between media, propaganda, and mass violence. During the Rwandan genocide, hate radio and music was used to incite violence and atrocities on a massive....
The Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies was established within the College of Liberal Arts and is an Independent Center with its main administrative relationship with the Department of....
The Names Database is an international undertaking led by Yad Vashem, from Jerusalem. It is the attempt to reconstruct the names and life stories of all the Jews who perished in the Shoah.....
Compiled by the Central Europe Center for Research and Documentation, this site contains the largest online library of privately owned pre and post-Holocaust family photographs and oral....
23 minutes
Source: Facing History and Ourselves This video accompanies Elie Wiesel's Night. The six selections in this montage parallel scenes described in Wiesel's memoir. The video....
by Mona Golabek and Lee Cohen
Warner Books In this memoir, concert pianist Mona Golabek shares the story of her mother’s journey through World War II and the enduring legacy of music that....
From the website - The small Jewish community in Asheville, NC talked for years about documenting the stories of families who witnessed, escaped, and survived the horrors of WWII and the....
This chronology of the Holocaust was created by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and reflects the time period from January 1933 until June 1948. The PDF timeline is 16 pages long.
An extensive site providing detailed and authoritative information on current war crimes tribunals in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Cambodia, East Timor, and Sierra Leone.
The Coalition for the International Criminal Court is a network of over 2,000 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) advocating for a fair, effective and independent International Criminal....
Dedicated to promoting the study of the Holocaust and combating Holocaust denial literature and thought. "Nizkor" is a Hebrew word which means "we will remember."
This site features films and documents from a January 24, 2005 special session of the United Nations General Assembly dedicated to commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the liberation of....
80 minutes
Source: Facing History and Ourselves Richard Hovannisian considers what can happen when the world fails to acknowledge that genocide has occurred.
60 minutes
source: HBO Films This made-for-TV movie dramatizes the Wannsee conference of 1942, at which the “Final Solution of the Jewish question” was planned.
Facing History's new resource book, Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Genocide of the Armenians, combines the latest scholarship on the Armenian Genocide with an....
This resource provides opportunities for a multimedia approach to teaching the history and legacies of the Armenian genocide and the challenges of responding to crimes against humanity. It....
This series of lessons can serve as a mini-unit for teaching the Armenian Genocide. These lessons can by used individually or as a whole to complement Facing History and Ourselves’ resource....
12 minutes, black & white and color
Source: out of print Daniel's Story is a film documentary that employs a composite figure, Daniel, as its central narrative voice. Daniel and his family....
30 minutes, black & white
Source: Filmakers Library This film is based on the still photographs of Wermacht Sergeant Heinz Jost who illegally took photos inside the Warsaw Ghetto in November....
This site offers a map of the Warsaw Ghetto from the Dignity and Defiance exhibit presented by the Simon Weisenthal Center. Located in Los Angeles, the Weisenthal Center is a leading....
58 minutes
Source: Berkeley Media A young Iowa mother discovers that she is a survivor of one of the most horrific episodes in Guatemala's 30 year civil war. In 1982, Denese Becke
This guide is designed to accompany the resource book Facing History and Ourselves: Holocaust and Human Behavior published by Facing History. Reading the chapter overviews and the suggested....
Five years ago, Eli Evans of the Charles H. Revson Foundation invited representatives of the Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation to meet with the staff of the Fortunoff Video....
by Francis Bok
(St. Martin's Griffin) In this memoir, Francis Bok recounts his story of being kidnapped into slavery at the age of ten in the Sudan in 1986. For ten years, he lived in a shed....
