Teacher: spark, Temple Beth El Allentown, allentown, Pennsylvania
Description: After having reviewed general concepts of the Ghetto system employed by the Nazi regime, students will deepen their understanding as we focus specifically on the Lodz Ghetto.

Teacher: Eilenberg, Temple Emanuel of Pascack Valley, Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey
Description: This lesson is on Israeli poet/Holocaust survivor Dan Pagis's poem "written in pencil in the sealed railway car."

Teacher: gross, Adat Shalom Synagogue, farmington hills, Michigan
Description: Resistance was a struggle against, as well as a struggle for something. As the awareness of the survivors’ personal experiences increased, the concept of Jewish resistance has become more inclusive. Alongside Jews bearing arms were those who worked to

Teacher: Eilenberg, Temple Emanuel of Pascack Valley, Woodcliff Lake, New Jersey
Description: This lesson uses a close reading of Bertolt Brecht's poem about survivor guilt "I, the Survivor" as a way to discuss the holocaust and survivor's guilt.

Teacher: Goldblum, Community Day School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Description: This lesson discusses the difficult choices that Jewish Council leaders had to make in the Lodz and Warsaw ghettos.

Teacher: SaNogueira, Bnai Keshet, Montclair, New Jersey
Description: Learn about Hannah Senesh and her poem "Eli, Eli"

Teacher: Marrus, Eleanor Kolitz Academy, San Antonio, Texas
Description: This lesson is designed to prepare students for Yom Hashoah.

Teacher: Vaisben, Peninsula Temple Sholom, Burlingame, New Hampshire
Description: This session is an introduction to the Holocaust unit. It describes he historical events that led to the rise of Hitler and the Nazi regime.

Teacher: Spark, Temple Beth El Allentown, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Description: This lesson is an overview of the impact of the Nazi Olympic games in 1936 in Berlin. Appropriate for 8th-12th grades.

Teacher: Abraham, Tucson Hebrew Academy, Tucson, Arizona
Description: The student will be able to list at least two examples of anti-Jewish laws The student will be able to list at least two incidents that affected the Jewish people and explain in what manner.

Teacher: Yavelberg, Tucson Hebrew Academy, Tucson, Arizona
Description: The objective of this lesson is to familiarize students with why Jews left Eastern Europe.

Teacher: Schwarz, Yeshiva of Greater Washington, Silver Spring, Maryland
Description: Even before 1939, Jews could see the dangers of staying in Germany. Students take a look at various possible locations of refuge, and why it was difficult if not impossible to emigrate there.

Teacher: McClure, Phoenix Hebrew Academy, Phoenix, Arizona
Description: Students choose their own research topic, questions, and sub-topics. Students complete a web, outline, notecards, title page, bibliography, and a minimum of 5 paragraphs of research.Students develop a presentation regarding their topic.

Teacher: Akiva, Harkham Hillel Hebrew Academy, Beverly Hills, California
Description: Students will be able to prove the big idea that a butterfly represents hope, faith, and religious freedom. Students will show their understanding by writing a butterfly acrostic poem.

Teacher: Silverman, Beth El Talmud Torah-Phoenix, Phoenix, Arizona
Description: This is story of the search for a family who survived the Shoah and remained in Europe in their original home.

Teacher: Pelaia, TEMPLE BETH EL - STAMFORD, Stamford, Connecticut
Description: A look at the connections between the Holocaust and the stories of the X-Men and the super-villain Magneto.

Teacher: Loiterman, HEBREW ACADEMY OF NASSAU COUNTY-MIDDLE SCHOOL, Uniondale, New York
Description: We will likely be the final generation to hear from those who had firsthand knowledge of the atrocities of the holocaust. Grant’s tomb seems out of place in Holocaust studies but he serves as a message of what can happen when those who witnessed the ev

Teacher: Kessler, YESHIVA KETANA OF QUEENS, Flushing, New York
Description: The Rabbis March on Washington, Erev Yom Kippur 1943

Teacher: Ish-Hurwitz, Solomon Schechter Day School of Metropolitan Chicago, Northbrook, Illinois
Description: An introductory lesson for students on the Holocaust that will allow them to brainstorm together about their feelings, what they already know and what questions they would like to have answered.