A virtual Library Resource Guide South Carolina Voices: Lessons From The Holocaust By Linda Scher Contributing Author - Judith B. Tulchin Project Coordinator - Margaret B. Walden Contents This section is currently under development. Teaching about the Holocaust is often limited by teachers' familiarity with the subject and the amount of time available for this topic. The materials in this guide were designed with these concerns in mind. The guide is divided into three main parts: overviews, lesson plans, and student handouts. In the back of the guide, teachers will find a Holocaust time-line, a glossary of key terms, and an annotated bibliography. Overviews: There are seven overviews in this guide. Each provides a short summary of a topic related to the Holocaust. Teachers can summarize these mini-lectures for their students or share them with more able readers. The overviews are intended to supplement the information in students' textbooks on each topic and provide a background for teaching the lessons that follow each overview. Lesson Plans: Each lesson is designed to highlight a topic discussed in an overview and is related to an aspect of the Holocaust. This will give the teacher flexibility in using these materials. There are eleven lessons in this guide. Depending on the amount of time available for this topic and the course in which it is taught, a teacher might use all eleven or one or two of these lessons. Each is designed to be used within one class period with average students. The lesson plans are entitled Teaching Lesson One, Teaching Lesson Two, and so on. Each lesson plan contains a list of materials needed to teach the lesson, a list of key terms or vocabulary introduced in the lesson that may be unfamiliar to students, and a three-step plan for teaching each lesson. A motivational activity introduces each lesson. This is followed by suggestions for developing the lesson and concludes with ideas for extension or enrichment activities. Wherever possible, the extension activity suggests ways to connect the study of the Holocaust to other topics in American or world studies. Handouts: Each lesson contains one or more handouts for students. There are thirty-four handouts in this guide. Most of these handouts are primary source documents. Many are interviews with South Carolina survivors. Others are original newspaper accounts of events in Germany during this period, parts of speeches given by Nazi officials, or testimony at the Nuremberg Trials. Maps of Eastern Europe are included for a map activity. In classes with less able readers, teachers may want to read the handouts aloud or tape record and replay them. The handouts which are interviews with South Carolina survivors, liberators, Hitler Youth, or Nazi officers work especially well as oral presentations. Groups of students can also be assigned to read these handouts aloud to the class. Advance preparation will be required for student readers to allow them to become familiar with the readings. Supplementary Materials: The guide also contains a Holocaust time line, a glossary of the terms introduced in the overviews or in the lessons, and an annotated bibliography of books and audiovisual materials that can be used to teach about the Holocaust. Unedited copies of the videotapes from which the handouts in this guide were created are available from the South Carolina Audiovisual Library, 1315 Gervais Street, Columbia, South Carolina 29201. A video series designed to supplement this guide is planned for the near future. It will consist of excerpts from the taped interviews of South Carolina survivors and liberators.