World Without Genocide recommends the following educational resources for teaching and learning about genocide and human rights.

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The Anti-Defamation League offers curriculum about genocide as it has repeated itself since the Holocaust. The Promise of Never Again looks at background and reasons for global unresponsiveness to the Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Iraq [link].

Rare testimonies of the Armenian Genocide shared by the University of Southern California Shoah Foundation – The Institute for Visual History and Education [link].

The following bibliography highlights a variety of recommended resources, including films and books, to learn more about the Armenian genocide [download bibliography].

World Without Genocide offers testimony from Benno Black, a kindertransport survivor [link].

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum offers Guidelines for Teaching about the Holocaust [link].

The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre offers a teacher resource on Holocaust Education. This resource contains frequently asked questions about the Holocaust, a timeline and glossary, recommended websites, and guidelines for teaching about the Holocaust [link].

The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre offers a mock trial exercise, called Nuremberg: A Student Mock Trial of Julius Streicher [link] including PowerPoint presentation of evidence used in the mock trial [grades 7-9 | grades 10-12].

The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre offers curriculum about Janus Korczak, a doctor, writer, and educator who was forced to lead two hundred Jewish children in the Warsaw Ghetto to the railcar that led them to their deaths in Treblinka. Janusz Korczak & The Children of the Warsaw Ghetto looks at Korczak’s life, children in the Holocaust, and children’s rights [link].

The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre offers curriculum about Maus, a two-volume Pulitzer Prize winning graphic novel by Art Spiegelman, called Maus: A Memoir of the Holocaust [link].

The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre offers a Teacher’s Guide, Light One Candle: A Child’s Diary of the Holocaust, based on the secret diary of a young boy who survived internment in a ghetto, slave labor in a concentration camp, and a death march [link].

The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre offers Open Hearts, Closed Doors: The War Orphans Project, curriculum about a group of young Jewish orphan children that immigrated to Canada following World War II as part of the War Orphans Project [link].

The Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre offers many other excellent educational resources, available here.

Roma and Sinti Genocide offer educator materials about the fate of European Roma and Sinti during the Holocaust [link].

The following bibliography highlights a variety of recommended resources, including films and books, to learn more about the Auschwitz concentration camp complex [link].

Auschwitz, a 15-minute documentary produced by Steven Spielberg and narrated by Meryl Streep, explores the history of the Nazi death camp where 1.1 million prisoners perished.

The YIVO Institute for Jewish Research is dedicated to the preservation and study of the history and culture of East European Jewry worldwide. [link]

PBS Frontline offers curriculum about the genocide in Cambodia, called Coping with Genocide in Cambodia, that integrates Prach Ly’s lyrics to the song “Power, Territory, and Rice” [link].

We recommend the following bibliography to learn more about human trafficking [link].

Worldwide Documentaries offers a Discussion Guide to their film Not My Life, which looks at human trafficking and slavery around the world and in our own communities [Discussion Guide | producer’s website].

Slavery Footprint offers an interactive online tool to explore how our lives affect slavery worldwide [website].

UNICEF offers lesson plans to address child trafficking around the world and what students can do to address trafficking [grades 6-8 | grades 9-12].

Child trafficking is a human rights violation affecting millions. Children are trafficked into labor, exploited in mines, or recruited into militias in conflict zones. This topic, which contains mature content, aims to raise awareness about trafficking and encourage students to take their own steps in addressing trafficking. Watch this video which aims to raise awareness about trafficking.

The U.S. State Department publishes an annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Reports  which can be read online as HTML or downloaded in segments in PDF.

The National Sexual Violence Resource Center has a series of resources available for download in their  Assisting Trafficking Victims Information Packet.

Nurse Practitioner Online offers a compilation of resources for trafficking victims, healthcare workers, and college students [link].

 The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum offers interactive curriculum on the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ripples of Genocide: Journey through Eastern Congo, as told through Angelina Jolie and John Prendergast’s journals as they travel through Congo [website | Teacher’s Guide].

These documents were written and compiled by World Without Genocide – please use and distribute freely.

Anti-Bullying Resources, including organizations and online resources, Minnesota resources, books, and films [download PDF].

Anti-Child Soldiering Resources, including books, films, websites, and local, national, regional, and international organizations [download PDF].

Anti-Human Trafficking Resources, including hotlines, Minnesota organizations, other organizations and online resources, books, and films [download PDF]. Reviewed at the 2013 Summer Institute for Educators and Leaders.

Curriculum Resources for Teaching About Genocide, including curriculum resources, books, and films about genocide, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Bosnia, Rwanda, and Darfur [download PDF]. Reviewed at the 2012 Summer Institute for Educators and Leaders.

Terezin Concentration Camp Resources, including websites, books, films, and plays [download PDF].

Watch excerpts from PBS Frontline‘s Ghost of Rwanda, which gives an overview of the genocide in Rwanda [link]. The full-length film is available for purchase.

Based on Alfons Heck’s book Heil Hitler! Confessions of a Hitler Youth, this film includes archival footage and an interview with Alfons Heck on propaganda, peer pressure, and Hitler’s recruitment of over eight million German children to the Hitler Youth [YouTube link].

Sophie Scholl: The Final Days is a dramatization of Sophie Scholl’s final days as part of the anti-Nazi propaganda resistance group during World War II in Germany called The White Rose [YouTube link | producer’s website]. This film is also available streaming on Netflix.

Watch PBS’s episode, I Came to Testify, about Bosnian women survivors of rape camps during the genocide in 1994 [link]. This is part of PBS’s series, Women, War & Peace [link].

Watch Break Thru Film’s documentary, The Devil Came on Horseback, about former U.S. Marine Captain Brian Steidle’s time in the Darfur region of Sudan as an official military observer. The film is available to watch on AppleTV.

Watch Benjamin Ferencz’s closing remarks at the ICC’s first case against Congo’s Thomas Lubanga Dyilo in 2011 [YouTube link].

Not My Life looks at human trafficking and slavery around the world and in our own communities [producer’s website].

For a complete list of World’s recommended films, click here.

The Coalition for the International Criminal Court [website]

Center for Victims of Torture [website]

University of Minnesota Human Rights Center [website]

Alight, formerly the American Refugee Committee [website]

The Advocates for Human Rights [website]

Vancouver Holocaust Education Centre [website]

Human Rights Watch [website]

Amnesty International [website]

University of Michigan, Human Rights Advocacy and the History of International Human Rights Standards [website]

The Fate of Roma and Sinti during the Holocaust [website]

Chain Reaction Theatre Company [website]

This page was last updated on July 22, 2024.