Using Diaries to Teach about the Holocaust

Beyond Anne Frank

“… the need grows more urgent for teachers to achieve a balance

between the history of the catastrophe and the various ways of representing the private ordeal of the victims…. No respectable course or unit on this topic can

afford to ignore either [history or literature].”

-Lawrence Langer, Preempting the Holocaust

James McDonald

Helen Baker/Anschluss in Austria

http://www.ushmm.org/research/collections/curatorscorner/detail.php?content=2011-03-01

Klaus Langer

Klaus Langer/Kristallnacht

Elizabeth Kaufmann

Elizabeth Kaufmann

Miriam Korber

Anonymous Girl of Lodz Ghetto

Lodz Ghetto

Yitskhok Rudashevski

Moshe Flinker– Brussels, Belgium

http://www.ushmm.org/museum/publicprograms/programs/firstperson/podcast/detail.php?EventId=E5B9DCB7-5585-4CA5-BB01-AFDF6910D8F8

Petr Ginz/Eva Ginzova

Peter Feigl

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sn6leBNF7ok(3:42)

Petr Ginz/Eva Ginzova

Ginz Family

http://www1.yadvashem.org/yv/en/remembrance/2011/pressburger.asp

The Diary of Anthony Acevedo

October 13, 2010

Anthony Acevedo donates his diary and other personal

belongings to the

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGgVAJfTmPY

“ The story reveals the meaning of what otherwise would

remain an unbearable sequence of sheer

happenings.”

- Hannah Arendt, Men in Dark Times

Contact:

Christina E. ChavarríaCChavarria@ushmm.or

g202.488.0466