This collection of resources was compiled to help 7th-12th grade educators supplement their unit on Elie Wiesel’s Night. Included are:
- primary source materials
- secondary historical pieces
- testimonies of survivors who shared elements of Wiesel’s experiences
- maps
- photographs
- film footage
- lesson plans
- information about Wiesel’s life and philanthropic work
The Holocaust in Hungary
- Braham, Randolph. The Politics of Genocide.
- Braham, Randolph and Scott Miller. The Nazis’ Last Victims: The Holocaust In Hungary.
- Destruction of Hungarian Jews
- The Holocaust in Hungary
- The Holocaust In Hungary: Frequently Asked Questions
- Hungary Before the German Occupation
- Hungary After the German Occupation
- Perpetrators of Hungarian Jews
- Romania
- Telegram from Eichmann’s Budapest Office regarding deportation of Budapest Jews, November 1944
Auschwitz and Forced Labor
- Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum
- Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
- Auschwitz-Protocol
- Death Marches
- Dwork, Deborah and Robert Jan van Pelt. Auschwitz.
- Excerpts from the Auschwitz Chronicle.
- Forced Labor
- Forced and Slave Labor in Nazi-Dominated Europe
- Gutman, Yisrael and Michael Berenbaum. Anatomy of the Auschwitz Death Camp.
- Hoess, Rudolf. Death Dealer: The Memoirs of the SS Kommandant at Auschwitz.
- Preparatory Work in Auschwitz (Braham)
Buchenwald and Post-Liberation
- Block 66 at Buchenwald
- Buchenwald
- Buchenwald
- Buchenwald and Mittelbau-Dora Memorials
- Buchenwald Liberation Photographs
- Buchenwald: Report by Edward R. Murrow
- Kinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald
- Liberation of Buchenwald – memories of Harry Herder
- Report, “Inspection of German concentration camp for political prisoners located at Buckenwald [sic] on the north edge of Weimar – made by Brig. Gen. Eric F. Wood, Lt. Col. Chas. H. Ott, and CWO. S.M. Dye, on the morning of 16th April 1945.”
RELATED TESTIMONY
- Cwick, Howard (Buchenwald liberator)
- Greenbaum Joseph
- Grossman, Clara
- Gutovitz, Abe
- I Witness Testimony Archive – (requires educator registration)
- The Last Days (DVD)
- Lengyl, Olga. Five Chimneys.
- Muller, Filip (Eyewitness Auschwitz)
- Rosenfeld Vago, Lidia
- Rothstein, Olga
- Sander, Abe
- Sander, Sam
- Schick, Otto
- Stras, Walter
- Warren, Aron
- Zemelman, Leo
Maps
- Aftermath of the Holocaust animated map
- Auschwitz Animated Map
- Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Auschwitz-Birkenau
- Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Spring 1945
- Buchenwald subcamps, 1938-1945
- Ghettos in occupied Hungary, 1944
- Hungarian Deportations to Auschwitz
- Hungarian Expansion
- Major Death Marches from Auschwitz, 1944
- Romania, 1933
- Romania, 1941
Elie Wiesel Resources
- Elie Wiesel
- Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
- Elie Wiesel Timeline, 1928-1952
- First Person Singular
- Nobel Peace Prize Lecture
- On Atrocities in Sudan
- Wiesel, Elie. All Rivers Run to the Sea.