Curriculum Guides & Materials
The core mission of the New Jersey Commission on Holocaust Education is to promote Holocaust education in the State of New Jersey. The mission includes providing assistance and advice to all schools in New Jersey as a means to promote the study of the Holocaust and other genocides.
It is our hope that the curriculum guides will enable teachers to challenge students to think deeply about many important issues that affect all of our lives and our future. Some of these issues relate to historical events such as the Holocaust and other tragic genocides. Others relate to the root causes, implications of, and possible responses to, prejudice, hatred, discrimination and stereotyping in many different historical and contemporary settings. We encourage students to consider the importance of personal responsibility in helping to create a more humane world, and to consider the roles of the perpetrator, victim and bystander in historical and contemporary events. When taught well, this subject helps students learn that even amid the most inhumane events in history, some people chose to do what was right, thus giving hope for the future.
For additional resources please visit:
Anti-Defamation League
Auschwitz Birkenau Museum
Echoes and Reflections
Facing History and Ourselves
Genocide Watch
Jewish Foundation for the Righteous
Jewish Partisans Education Foundation
Johannesburg Holocaust &Genocide Centre
Memoirs of WW2
National World War 2 Museum
Southern Poverty Law Center
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
USC Shoah Foundation
Yad Vahshem
Yahad in Unum - Father Patrick Desbois
Zachor Foundation