SUGGESTED RESOURCES
The following books, publications and videos may be used for research; these are available through your local library and the Omaha Jewish Community Center Library (402-334-6461). Sources are not limited to the suggestions below. If you find a great source in your research, please, share it with the contest coordinator.
Remember to use the teacher tool boxes available at your school (provided by the Institute for Holocaust Education).
Articles and Additional Resources
The Poster Set on Rescue: Traits That Transcend. Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, 2005. (available at the Institute for Holocaust Education)
Diaries and Historical Reference:
The Holocaust
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The Courage to Care. Editors: Sondra Myers and Carol Rittner. New York: New York University Press, 1986. Available on Google Books!
Hidden Heroes of the Holocaust. Editor: Christina Micek. Omaha, Nebraska: Hidden Heroes of the Holocaust Foundation, 2002. (available at the Institute for Holocaust Education)
“The Rescue of the Danish Jews: A Fiftieth Anniversary Commemoration.”Dimensions: A Journal of Holocaust Studies. Series editor: Dennis B. Klein. New York: Anti-Defamation League’s Braun Center for Holocaust Studies, 7,3, 1993.
The Rescue of the Danish Jews: Moral Courage under Stress. Editor: Leo Goldberger. New York: New York University Press, 1987.
Duba, Ursala. Tales from a Child of the Enemy. New York: Penguin Books, 1997. (poetry)
Eman, Diet. Things We Couldn’t Say. Grand Rapids, MI: W.B. Erdmans, 1994. Available on Google Books!
Farber, David. Because of Romek. San Diego: Los Hombres Press, 1997.
Flender, Harold. Rescue in Denmark. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1963; Holocaust Library, 1980.
Fogelman, Eva. Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust. New York: Doubleday, 1994.
Geier, Arnold. Heroes of the Holocaust. Miami, FL: Londonbooks, 1993.
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Grunwald-Spier, Agnes. The Other Schindlers. Gloucestershire, UK: The History Press, 2010, 2011.
Klempner, Mark. The Heart Has Reasons: Holocaust Rescuers and Their Stories of Courage. The United Church Press. 2006. Author Website
Loeffler, Martha Boats in the Night: Knud Dyby’s Story of Resistance and Rescue. Blair, NE, Lur Publications, 1999.
Marks, Jane. The Hidden Children. New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1993.
Meltzer, Milton. Rescue: The Story of How Gentiles Saved Jews in the Holocaust. New York: Harper & Row, 1968.
Nir, Yehuda. The Lost Childhood. San Diego: Handcount Brake Johnovich, 1989.
Poser, Norman. Escape: A Jewish Scandinavian Family in the Second World War. Sareve Press. 2006.
Rabinovici, Schoschana. Thanks to my Mother. New York: Dial Books, 1998.
Ryback, Timothy. The Last Survivor. New York: Pantheon Books, 1999.
Schindler, Emilie. Where Light and Shadow Meet. New York: Norton, 1996. Available on Google Books!
Silver, Eric. The Book of the Just: The Unsung Heroes Who Rescued Jews from Hitler. New York: Gov. Press, 1992.
Sutherland, Christine. Monica: Heroine of the Danish Resistance. New York: Farrar Straus Sgiroux, 1990. Available on Google Books!
Yehil, Leni. The Rescue of Danish Jewry: Test of Democracy. Philadelphia:Jewish Publications Society of America, 1969.
Bosnia
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Filipovic, Zlata. Zlata’s Diary. New York, NY. Penguin Books. 1994. Available on Google Books!
Hukanovic, Rezak. The Tenth Circle of Hell: A Memoir of Life in the Death Camps of Bosnia. Basic Books. 1996.
Africa
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Hari, Daoud. The Translator. Random House. 2008. Book Website
Marlowe, Jen. Darfur Diaries: Stories of Survival. New York. Nation Books. 2006. Book/DVD Website
Steidle, Brian. The Devil Came On Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur. United States. PublicAffairs. 2007. Available on Google Books!
Multimedia
Holocaust
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Nicholas Winton – The Power of Good. Michigan. Gelman Educational Foundation. 2006. (available at the Institute for Holocaust Education) Curriculum/DVD website
Tak For Alt. California. Sirena Films. 1998. (available at the Institute for Holocaust Education) Curriculum/DVD website
Africa
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A Good Man In Hell: General Romeo Dallaire and the Rwanda Genocide. Washington, D.C. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 2002. (available at the Institute for Holocaust Education)
Defying Genocide: Choices That Saved Lives. Washington, D.C. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (available at the Institute for Holocaust Education)
Witnessing Darfur: Genocide Emergency. Washington, D.C. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. (available at the Institute for Holocaust Education)
FRONTLINE: Ghosts of Rwanda. Barker, Greg.FRONTLINE. WGBH Educational Foundation. 2004. DVD Website
Darfur Diaries: Message From Home. Bain, Aisha. Marlowe, Jen. Shapiro, Adam. Cinema Libre. 2004. Book/DVD Website
The Devil Came On Horseback. Stern, Ricki. Sundberg, Anne. Break Thru Films. 2007. Film Website
Internet Sites
A Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust. 2005
Anti-Defamation League. 2007
Braun Holocaust Institute. 2007
Courage to Care. 2007
Curriculum Connections. 2007
Plains States Office of the ADL. 2007
Cambodian Association of Illinois. 2009
Cambodian Cultural Museum and Killing Fields Memorial. 2009
Children of the Holocaust: The Survivors Speak. 1999
The Institute for Holocaust Education: Survivor Stories. 2011
Echoes and Reflections. 2005-2009
Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre. 2009
Danish Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 16 October. 2002.
The Midwest Center for Holocaust Education. 2006
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 2006
Committee On Conscience. 2006
World Is Witness. 2006
USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education. 2006
Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Martyrs’ and Heroes’ Remembrance Authority. 2006
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Books
Estes, Eleanor. The Hundred Dresses. Orlando. Harcourt, Inc. 1944.(available at the Institute for Holocaust Education) Available on Google Books!
Agra Deedy, Carmen. The Yellow Star. Atlanta. Peachtree Publisher, LTD. 2000 (available at the Institute for Holocaust Education)
Frankl, Viktor. Man’s Search for Meaning. Boston: Beacon Press, 1992.Available on Google Books!
Gotfryd, Bernard. Anton the Dove Fancier, and Other Tales of the Holocaust. New York: Washington Square Press, 1990. Issacman, Clara, as told to Joan Adess Grossman. Clara’s Story. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1984.
Lowry, Lois. Number the Stars. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1989.
Marshall, Robert. In the Sewers of Lvov: A Heroic Story of Survival from the Holocaust. New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1991.
Orlev, Uri. The Man from the Other Side. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991.
Sachar, Louis. Holes. New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1998. Book Website. Available on Google Books!
