Training Video for Educators: Teaching with Survivor Testimony

One of the most powerful ways of remembering the Holocaust and honoring its victims is to bring the voices of survivors to your students. These voices are important to fulfilling one of the Museum’s guidelines for teaching about the Holocaust–translating statistics into people. By incorporating survivor testimony in your classroom, students become witnesses and honor both the memory of survivors and victims of the Holocaust.

Teaching materials featured in this video:

• Lesson: Teaching with Holocaust Survivor Testimony

• First Person: Conversations with Holocaust Survivors

• Holocaust Encyclopedia: Identification Cards

Key Question:

• What is the significance of oral histories, and how do they contribute to our understanding of the Holocaust?

View all videos in the Engaging Students with Survivor Testimony and Primary Sources video collection.