Downloadable Curriculum Materials

Many of the pages labeled “Transparency Masters” and “Student Handouts” in Echoes and Reflections are available here as PDFs for teachers to download and use in the classroom. In addition, an interactive map on the extermination camps and killing sites developed by Yad Vashem has been included for classroom use. Click on the lesson that you are currently working on to see what material is available to download.

• Lesson One: Studying the HolocaustLesson One: Studying the Holocaust ( Hide This Section )
  • Transparency Masters
    • Holocaust Definitions
    • Genocide Definition
  • Student Handouts
    • Photograph: People Looking at Ruined Shops Following Kristallnacht Pogrom
    • Photograph: Synagogue on Fire During the Kristallnacht Pogrom
• Lesson Two: AntisemitismLesson Two: Antisemitism ( Hide This Section )
  • Transparency Masters
    • Map: Jewish Communities in Europe before the Nazis
      Rise to Power
    • Antisemitism Definition
    • Picture: Nazi Propaganda (caricature of an elderly
      Jew giving children candy)
    • Picture: Nazi Propaganda (caricature from The Poisonous Mushroom)
    • Picture: Nazi Propaganda (woman and children looking at a crucifix)
    • Picture: Nazi Propaganda (classroom scene)
    • Picture: Nazi Propaganda (caricature of Jew side by side with Aryan)
    • Photograph: Nazi Propaganda (parade with Nazi flags)
• Lesson Three: Nazi GermanyLesson Three: Nazi Germany ( Hide This Section )
  • Transparency Masters
    • Map: Europe before 1919 and the Treaty of Versailles
    • Map: Europe after 1919 and the Treaty of Versailles
    • Photograph: Kristallnacht Pogrom
    • Pyramid of Hate
• Lesson Four: The GhettosLesson Four: The Ghettos ( Hide This Section )
  • Transparency Masters
    • Map: Ghettos in Europe - Selected area detail Map
    • Map: Ghettos in Europe - Full Map
  • Photographs:
    • Jews Crossing the Bridge in the Lodz Ghetto
    • Additional: Jews Crossing the Bridge in the Lodz Ghetto
  • Student Handouts
    • Photograph: Photograph from the Lodz Ghetto
    • Picture: Monopoly Game from Theresienstadt
• Lesson Five: The “Final Solution”Lesson Five: The “Final Solution” ( Hide This Section )
  • Transparency Masters
    • Map: Nazi Camps and Sites of Mass Execution
    • New Interactive Map: Main Nazi Camps and Killing
      Sites
    • Photograph: Auschwitz-Birkenau, A Woman and Children Deemed Unfit for Work
    • Photograph: Selection on the Auschwitz-Birkenau Platform
    • Photograph: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Women Being Led to the Gas Chambers
    • Photograph: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Jews Standing on the Platform
  • Student Handout
    • Artwork: “Art from the Camps” (Appell, 1944)
• Lesson Six: Jewish ResistanceLesson Six: Jewish Resistance ( Hide This Section )
  • Transparency Master
    • Announcement by Abba Kovner
  • Student Handout
    • Never Say
• Lesson Seven: Rescuers and Non-Jewish ResistanceLesson Seven: Rescuers and Non-Jewish Resistance ( Hide This Section )
  • Transparency Master
    • “Righteous Among the Nations”
  • Student Handout
    • Yad Vashem Criteria
• Lesson Eight: Survivors and LiberatorsLesson Eight: Survivors and Liberators ( Hide This Section )
  • Transparency Master
    • A Liberator’s Thoughts
  • Student Handouts
    • Photograph: A Kindergarten in a DP Camp (Salzburg, Austria)
    • Photograph: Babies in a DP Camp (Landsberg, Germany)
    • Photograph: A Kindergarten at a DP Camp (Bergen-Belsen)
    • Photograph: A Boy Eating in a DP Camp
• Lesson Nine: Perpetrators, Collaborators, and BystandersLesson Nine: Perpetrators, Collaborators, and Bystanders ( Hide This Section )
  • Transparency Masters
    • Artwork: “Camp Synagogue”
    • Artwork: “The Refugee”
    • Artwork: “Shore at Rapallo”
• Lesson Ten: The ChildrenLesson Ten: The Children ( Hide This Section )
  • Transparency Master
    • Geneva Declaration of the Rights of the Child
  • Student Handouts
    • Photograph #1
    • Photograph #2
    • Photograph #3
    • Photograph #4