Digitised Manuscripts
Almost 900 Greek manuscripts and some of the most important papyri, ranging in date from the first to the 18th centuries, are now included in the Digitised Manuscripts site. The first two phases of the Greek Manuscripts Digitisation Project were generously funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and the third phase was funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, the A. G. Leventis Foundation, Sam Fogg, the Sylvia Ioannou Foundation, the Thriplow Charitable Trust, and the Friends of the British Library. A guide to the Greek Manuscripts collections, including articles, videos and collection highlights, is available here. Over fifty Thai manuscripts and the Chakrabongse Archive of Royal Letters have been digitised with the generous support of the Royal Thai Government, in celebration of the occasion of the eightieth birthday anniversary of His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand on 5 December 2007.
Jewish survivors of the Holocaust - Oral history | British Library
Short description: Recordings in this collection can be played by anyone. These recordings are powerful personal accounts of the Holocaust from Jewish survivors living in Britain. Oral history recordings provide valuable first-hand testimony of the past. Long description: Recordings in this collection can be played by anyone. These recordings are powerful personal accounts of the Holocaust from Jewish survivors living in Britain. During the 1930s and 1940s, the German Nazis and their collaborators murdered six million Jews. The testimonies on this site are drawn from two major oral history programmes:- – The Living Memory of the Jewish Community – which between 1987 and 2000 gathered 186 audio life story interviews with Jewish survivors of the Holocaust and their children. Some of the testimonies also feature in an online educational resource – Voices of the Holocaust - available through the BL Learning website at
Hodder Education - Modern History Review extras
Modern History Review extra resources Volume 20, Number 3, February 2018 Timeline: Art stylesClaire FitzgeraldA printable PDF of this issue's centre spread for display and revisionAQA Edexcel OCR Volume 20, Number 2, November 2017 Timeline: Russia 1905Christopher ReadA printable PDF of this issue's centre spread for display and revisionAQA Edexcel OCR Revision: Russia 1905Roz HartTry these exercises on the topic of 'turning points' in Russian historyAQA Edexcel OCR Volume 20, Number 1, September 2017 Timeline: Vietnam WarTim LockleyA printable PDF of this issue's centre spread for display and revisionAQA Edexcel OCR Volume 19, Number 4, April 2017 Timeline: Russia, 1917Chris ReadA printable PDF of this issue's centre spread for display and revisionAQA Edexcel OCR Volume 19, Number 3, February 2017 Volume 19, Number 2, November 2016 Timeline: 1848 revolutionsChristopher ReadA printable PDF of this issue's centre spread for display and revisionAQA Edexcel OCR Volume 19, Number 1, September 2016
Teaching Salvaged Pages: Young Writers' Diaries of the Holocaust
Moshe Ze’ev Flinker was born in The Hague on October 9, 1926, and was raised in an Orthodox Jewish home. After being subjected to increasingly restrictive anti-Jewish measures following the German occupation of the Netherlands in 1940, the Flinker family fled to Belgium in 1942. In Belgium, Moshe and his family were able to pass as non-Jews with the help of false identity papers and relative anonymity. Moshe was a deeply religious young boy who grappled with the theological problems posed by the unprecedented persecution of the Jews. In April 1944, after being betrayed by a known Belgian Jewish collaborator, Moshe, his mother, and his sisters Esther Malka and Leah, were arrested at their home and deported to Malines. Two weeks later, Moshe’s father was caught and sent to Malines, where he found his family. Esther Malka and Leah survived Auschwitz-Birkenau and were reunited with their four siblings in Brussels after the liberation.
The National Archives Catalog
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The Holocaust: assessing responsibility and conscience – Lesson Plan | Lesson Plan | PBS NewsHour Extra
By Paul Wieser and Syd Golston Introduction Students will learn about the pressures of society and the struggles of conscience that operated during the Holocaust and in contemporary situations. Subjects History, social studies, civics Estimated Time One class period (50 minutes) Grade Level Materials Objectives Students will: Evaluate in small groups the actions of 30 hypothetical citizens in Nazi Germany (handout: Assessing and Defining Responsibility).In jigsaw groups of five, read and evaluate the actions of five representative categories of citizens. Warm Up Assessing Responsibility Background The Holocaust was the systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. During the era of the Holocaust, German authorities also targeted other groups because of their perceived “racial inferiority”: Roma (Gypsies), the disabled and some of the Slavic peoples (Poles, Russians, and others). Main Activity Homework
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection | View Collection
The new MapRank search tool enables geographical searching of the collection by map location and coverage, in a Google Map window. Pan and zoom the Google Map to the area of the world you want maps of, and the results will automatically appear as a scrollable list of maps with thumbnail images in the right side window. The maps in the right side list are ranked by coverage, with the maps that have coverage closest to your search window listed at the top. Mousing over any map in the list will show the map's coverage as a light red rectangle on top of the Google Map. Launch MapRank Search
Bringing Art into Holocaust Instruction
As a teacher, I am constantly thinking of new ways to engage my students. Before I started teaching my students a unit about the Holocaust this year, I thought a lot about how I could get them to think, process, and reflect meaningfully and critically about this history, and also inspire them to act in a manner that influences the world for good. This particular group of students did not need to write another essay citing textual evidence from multiple sources; they were quite good at that already. Plus, writing the typical "end of unit essay" did not address my goals for the unit, which were to have students engage with the material they learned, demonstrate mastery of the unit’s anchor texts, and make a significant contribution to the larger community. IWitness is a wonderful resource; it's filled with searchable testimonies and activities that can easily be incorporated into a Holocaust unit. Next I reached out to local Holocaust survivor, artist, and author Ava Kadishson Schieber.
