The Museum offers various ways to share survivor testimony with students in the classroom. View the options below, or complete this form if you need additional guidance.
Testimony Clips for Classroom Use
This handout provides testimony clips organized by topic. Most testimony clips are under 5 minutes.
Survivor Voices on Antisemitism
These short clips highlight Holocaust survivors recalling the antisemitism—or hatred against Jews—they experienced as children.
Programming with Holocaust Survivors
Join Holocaust survivors for live or recorded First Person conversations as they share their experiences in their own words. A Teacher Guide and Student Interactive are available to support all programs.
Multi-Day Lesson Plan
Students will examine Holocaust survivor testimonies as both personal memories and as deliberately-created historical records, and will evaluate how the Holocaust affected the lives of individuals, as well as the role of memory in our understanding of history.
Grade level: Adaptable for grades 7–12 Subject: Multidisciplinary Time required: This resource includes several options for using survivor testimony. The length of time needed for activities within each section varies, but an estimate of 60 minutes per section is reasonable. Individual activities may be completed in class or as assessments. Languages: English, Spanish
Section I: Why Testimony? (60 minutes)
Section II: Sources & Perspectives (60 minutes)
Section III: Providing Context (60 minutes)
Section IV: Making Meaning (60 minutes)
Section V: Bearing Witness (60 minutes)
Section I functions as the introduction. Other sections may be completed independently based on desired educational outcomes.
For Learning Management Systems
This online lesson plan is compatible with learning management systems or web browsers for students to complete individually or as a class. You can use the PDF of the original lesson plan above as a guide. To use with your LMS, download the files below and follow your system’s instructions for importing files.
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Explore lesson plans and training materials organized by theme to use in your classroom.