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Planning Observances for Military Audiences Educational Resources for Military Personnel To support your planned observance of Days of Remembrance, we encourage you to explore the following educational resources:
Experience the power of personal testimony  View eyewitness accounts of liberators and survivors as they discuss the end of the war, the discovery of the camps, and the struggle to make sense.  Johanna Gerechter Neumann describes Kristallnacht in Hamburg.  To see additional survivor testimony, access the personal testimony of Nesse Godin, a survivor of the Siaulia ghetto in Lithuania, the Stutthof concentration camp, four labor camps, and a death march, as she shares her memories.  Through the Museum's collection of personal histories, learn about individuals who experienced diverse aspects of the history of the Holocaust.
Use maps to place historical events in context View these short animated maps, which give overviews of the history and provide context for learning.
Use the Museum's extensive collection of maps to trace the locations of significant events
Learn in-depth with online features  On June 6, 1944 (known as D-Day), the western Allies launched the single largest amphibious invasion force in world history, landing almost 150,000 soldiers under the command of U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower on the beaches of Normandy, France.  On November 9, 1938, the Nazis unleashed a wave of pogroms against Germany's Jews. In the space of a few hours, thousands of synagogues and Jewish businesses and homes were damaged or destroyed. This event came to be called Kristallnacht ("Night of Broken Glass") for the shattered store windowpanes that carpeted German streets.  In the immediate aftermath of the Holocaust, the world was faced with a challenge—how to seek justice for an almost unimaginable scale of criminal behavior. The International Military Tribunal (IMT) held at Nuremberg, Germany, attempted to broach this immense challenge on a legal basis. Holocaust Encyclopedia  The Museum's online encyclopedia containing articles, film, photographs, individual histories, survivor testimony, chronologies, maps, artifacts, music, and links to resources. |
