A time of social distancing and staying home can be the perfect time to catch up on learning and finding ways to connect digitally with our global network.
As part of that connection, we encourage you to peruse the wealth of Holocaust educational resources that live online. Keep an eye on this page, which we will continue to update with resources offered from our Center and institutions worldwide. Items with an asterisk (*) are offered by the Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh and our partner organizations.
Quick Links to Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh Resources
- Literature/audio: Survivor Solange Lebovitz reading her poetry
- Digital Book: Digital access to Flares of Memory, our collection of vignettes from local survivors
- Annotated story: Parallel Choices from CHUTZ-POW! Volume I
- Testimony Video: Generations Speaker Lynne Ravas and Survivor Sam Gottesman (z”l) telling their stories at the Center
- Testimony Video: Generations Speaker Debbie Stueber telling her parents’ story
- Digital Exhibit: For You Were Strangers: Jewish Immigration to Pittsburgh, 1880-1990
- Images: Winning student artwork from the 2019-2020 Waldman International Competition
- Profiles of Local Survivors: In Celebration of Life
- Booklists for Genocide Awareness Month
Resources From Across the Internet
Resources for all:
Digital Exhibits and Tours
- Auschwitz Virtual Tour
- Virtual Tour of the Secret Annex
- Yad Vashem Online Exhibits
- United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Online Exhibits
- Virtual tour of the Holocaust Museum and Learning Center of St. Louis
- “Stories of the Holocaust” from Google Arts and Culture
- All Holocaust collections/exhibits from Google Arts and Culture
- Bak Gallery Online
Online courses
- The Holocaust: An Introduction from Yad Vashem
- History of Antisemitism from Yad Vashem
- E-Learning from Auschwitz Memorial
- YIVO Shine classes on pre-WWII Jewish life
- Learn about Jewish Partisans from the Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation website
Ebooks and Archives
- Ebook resources from Carnegie Library (must have a library card through a participating library)
- National Emergency Library, a free collection of over 1.4 million ebooks
- EHRI (European Holocaust Research Infrastructure) Finding aid for Holocaust archival materials held in collections worldwide
- Digital Collections at Leo Baeck Institute
Videos and Testimony
- *Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh YouTube page
- “The Last Survivors” PBS Frontline Documentary
- International Database of Oral History Testimonies (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
- Voices of the Holocaust (The Galvin Library)– Earliest known oral histories of the Holocaust, recorded in 1946. English translations of transcripts available.
- Recordings of events from Holocaust Living History Workshop from UC San Diego
- USC Shoah Foundation YouTube Channel
- Forced Labour 1939-1945: Memory and History (Freie Universität Berlin, Center for Digital Systems)
- Holocaust Matters: Curated extracts from the memoir of Dr Ernst Israel Bornstein, who survived seven Nazi labor and extermination camps.
- Oral History: Jewish Survivors of the Holocaust (The British Library)
Events from around the world:
- *Upcoming Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh events
- Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum Events (ongoing)
- Events from Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County (ongoing)
- Events from Museum of Jewish Heritage (ongoing)
- Testimony Tuesday, Artifact Wednesday, and Lesson Thursday from the Florida Holocaust Museum (ongoing)
- Facebook Live with Former Neo-Nazi Christian Picciolini (May 13)
Resources for educators:
- *Together We Remember “Flexible Instruction Day” Lesson Plan (aligns with PA State Standards)
- Individual PDFs for student distribution:
- Eva: A-7063 film and educator guide free to educators through the month of May
- Support for Teachers during COVID-19 from Facing History and Ourselves
- Jewish Partisan Education Foundation Webinars
- Facing History and Ourselves Online Events
- Echoes and Reflections Webinars
- May 12- The Power of the Human Story
- May 14- Exploring the Time Capsule: The Power of Holocaust Artifacts
- May 19- Discovering Lithuania’s Hidden Holocaust: Meet the Author of “Our People”
- May 20- The “Final Solution in the East and West
- Using iWitness in the Digital Classroom
- Help for Homeschooling Resource from Museum of Jewish Heritage
- (For Texas Educators): Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission Digital Library
- E-Learning from Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation
- Digital Teaching Tools from United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
- POLIN Museum’s Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Campaign
- Digital Teaching Tools from Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum
- Digital Resources from the Museum of Tolerance
- Music and the Holocaust
- The Nazi Concentration Camps: A teaching and learning resource
Mental Health Resources:
- JFCS Resource page
- The JFCS Critical Needs Hotline, in partnership with Jewish Federation of Greater Pittsburgh and United Way 211: 412-422-0400
- Webinar: Helping Children Regulate Emotions During Challenging Times (May 21)
Civic Resources:
- Voting in Pennsylvania:
- Here’s where people can: check their registration, register to vote, and request absentee or mail-in ballots: https://www.votespa.com/
- The PA primary has been moved from April 28 to June 2. A good resource to find out more, including where your polling place is located and who all/ what offices will be on your own ballot can be found here: www.palwv.org for Pennsylvania branch of the League of Women Voters
- Completing the Census online: https://my2020census.gov/