Prologue
First They Came for the Jews . . .
Martin Niemöller
Creating Context
Anti-Semitism • Map • Faces of the Holocaust • Timeline • Concept Vocabulary
Cluster One: How Could the Holocaust Happen?
Thinking Skill: Analyzing
- The Ball (short story)
- Hans Peter Richter
- Serving Mein Führer (biography)
- Eleanor Ayer
- Family Album (poem)
- Amos Neufeld
- An Anti-Semitic Demonstration (poem)
- Gail Newman
- Broken Glass, Broken Lives (autobiography)
- Arnold Geier
- Crystal Night (poem)
- Lyn Lifshin
- Address Unknown (fictional correspondence)
- Kressman Taylor
Cluster Two: How Were Victims Oppressed?
Thinking Skill: Comparing and Contrasting
- A Spring Morning (short story)
- Ida Fink
- The Little Boy with His Hands Up (poem)
- Yala Korwin
- Shipment to Maidanek (poem)
- Ephim Fogel
- A Survivor Remembers (oral history)
- Berek Latarus
Cluster Three: Was There Resistance?
Thinking Skill: Generalizing
- Saving the Children (poem)
- Frieda Singer
- Rescue in Denmark (historical account)
- Harold Flender
- The White Rose: Long Live Freedom (essay)
- Jacob G. Hornberger
- The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (diary)
- Reuben Ainsztein
Cluster Four: Why Should We Remember?
Thinking Skill: Synthesizing
- Letter from Dachau (letter)
- 1st Lt. William J. Cowling
- Reunions (short story)
- Bernard Gotfryd
- Return to Auschwitz (autobiography)
- Kitty Hart
- The Survivor (poem)
- John C. Pine
- The Power of Light (short story)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
Cluster Five: Thinking on Your Own
- For the Dead and the Living (speech)
- Elie Wiesel
- The Test Case (personal account)
- Simon Wiesenthal
- Hitler’s Heirs (article)
- Greg Steinmetz
- Genocide in Bosnia (article)
- Mary Ann Lickteig
- Race (poem)
- Karen Gershon
