Training Videos for Educators: Collaboration and Choice During the Holocaust

This video provides strategies to help students and teachers move beyond describing people as bystanders, perpetrators, and rescuers and toward understanding the complexity of human choices and the importance of historical context.

Teaching materials featured in this video:

• Poster Set: Some Were Neighbors

• Online Exhibition: Some Were Neighbors: Choice, Human Behavior, and the Holocaust

• Lesson: Exploring the Role of Ordinary People in the Holocaust

Key Question:

• Based on the video above, how does including the roles of ordinary people and the complexity of human choice impact student understanding of how and why the Holocaust happened?

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