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Center for Holocaust & Genocide Studies
chgs@umn.edu
612-624-0256
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Teaching Trunk Project
Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust for Middle and High Schools
Trunks available free for up to 6 weeks for regional middle and high schools. Reservations for the trunks are advised.
The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) has provided the Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies with a generous grant for the purchase and construction of six teaching trunks for use in middle and high schools and curricular models.
Through a generous grant from the Gerard Cafesjian Family Foundation, two teaching trunks have been constructed for teaching about the Armenian Genocide of 1915 and Armenian memory thereafter.
The Holocaust trunks have the following emphasis:
Middle School Trunks: Investigating Human Behavior - Focuses on the choices individuals and groups made during the Holocaust. The trunk examines the bystander, perpetrator, victim, and rescuer, and how their choices affected their lives and the lives of others. Three trunks available. NO RENTAL CHARGE. CHGS will pay shipping costs to schools. Schools may keep trunks up to 6 weeks and are expected to maintain quality control over materials.
High School Trunks: Historical Perspectives of the Holocaust - The examination of non-fiction, memoirs, diaries, and biographies. Students begin to apply their previous education into a focused study of the historical impact of the Holocaust on individuals. Three trunks available. NO RENTAL CHARGE. CHGS will pay shipping costs to schools. Schools may keep trunks up to 6 weeks and are expected to maintain quality control over materials.
Armenian Genocide Trunks: Include books, video tapes, poster sets and curriculum guide for teaching the history of the Armenian Genocide in the Ottoman Empire and how it relates to the Holocaust as the "first genocide of the 20th century."
Rwandan Genocide Trunks: Include books, video tapes, and curriculum guide for teaching about the Rwandan Genocide.
Darfur Genocide Trunks: Include books, video tapes, and curriculum guide for teaching about the genocide that is currently happening in Darfur.
Web sites for bios of Minnesota survivors:
Minnesotans and the Holocaust
Henry Oertelt - An Unbroken Chain
My Name Was No. 133909
Jack and Rochelle Sutin
Ziwa Alexander Katz
CHGS can also furnish speakers and consulting on teaching of these subjects. CHGS concentrates its activity in Minnesota, northern Iowa, western Wisconsin, and eastern South and North Dakota.Information about workshops on using the trunks by teachers are free of charge. For information contact us at 612-624-0256.
We also have Teaching Trunks about the Darfur and Rwandan Genocides.
Note: The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany (Claims Conference) distributes a weekly e-mail bulletin on current restitution developments and Claims Conference activities. You may subscribe to this free service through the homepage of the Claims Conference's website, www.claimscon.org, or by sending an email to news@claimscon.org.
Middle School Teaching Trunk Inventory
| Title | Author | Publisher | Qty |
| Books | |||
| After the War | Carol Matas | Aladdin Paperbacks | 5 |
| Anne Frank: Beyond the Diary | Rian Verhoeven and Ruud | Puffin Books | 2 |
| Anne Frank: Life In Hiding | Johanna Hurwitz | Beech Tree | 5 |
| Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl | Anne Frank | Bantam Books | 30 |
| Atlas of the Holocaust | Martin Gilbert | William Morrow & Company | 2 |
| Christmas Menorahs, The | Janice Cohn | Albert Whitman & Comapny | 1 |
| Clara's Story | Clara Isaacman | The Jewish Publication Society | 5 |
| Freedom Writers Diary, The | Erin Grunwell | Main Street Books | 1 |
| Friedrich | Hans Peter Richter | Puffin Books | 30 |
| Holocaust 8 Volume Set- hardcover books & Index | Lisa clyde Nielson, Editor | Blackbirch Press Book | 1 |
| Holocaust Personal Account, The | David Scrase/Wolgang Mied | Queen City Printers, Inc | 1 |
| Holocaust Personal Account Booklet + 12 Transp. | Globe Fearon | Mind Sparks, Highsmith | 1 |
| Holocaust, the- a History of Courage & Resistance | Bea Stadtler | Behrman House | 1 |
| Holocaust, The Historical Case Studies | Globe Fearon | Globe Faron | 2 |
| I Am A Star | Inge Auerbacher | Puffin Books | 10 |
| I Never Saw Another Butterfly | H. Volavkova | Schocken Books | 5 |
| Immigrant Kids | Russel Freedman | Puffin Books | 2 |
| Island on Bird Street, the | Uri Orlev | Houghton-Mifflin | 5 |
| Journey to America | Sonia Levitan | Aladdin Paperbacks | 5 |
| Kindertransport | Olga Levy Drucker | Henry Holt & Company | 1 |
| Letters from Rivka | Karen Hesse | Puffin Books | 5 |
| Man From the Other side, The | Uri Orlev | Puffin Books | 5 |
| Number the Stars | Lois Lowry | Yearling Newbery | 3 |
| Parallel Journeys | Eleanor Ayer | Atheneum Books | 1 |
| Rescue: The story of How the Gentiles Saved the Jews | Milton Meltzer | harper-Trphy | 5 |
| Sky: A True story of Resistance During World War I | Hanneke Ippisch | Simon & Schuster | 5 |
| Smoke and Ashes | Barbara Rogsky | Holiday House | 1 |
| Swastika on the Synagogue Door, the | J Leonard Romm | Alef Design Group | 5 |
| Teaching About the Holocaust, Resouce Book for Educators | USHMM | USHMM | 1 |
| Teaching and Studying the Holocaust | Samuel Totten, Stephen Feins | Pearson Education | 1 |
| Teaching Holocaust Literature | Samuel Totten | Pearson Education | 1 |
| Tell them We Remember | Susan D. Bachrach | Little Brown and Co | 2 |
| Tunes for Bears to Dance to | Robert Cormier | Laurel-Leaf books | 30 |
| Zlata's Diary | Zlata Hillpovic | Puffin Books | 5 |
| Posters | |||
| Help us to help her/ How Does it Feel? | UNHCR | UNHCR | 2 |
| Survivor, Fragments Collection | FHM | FHM | 1 |
| USHMM Poster Set: 9 posters + Teacher Guide | Helen Fagin | USHMM | 1 |
| Videos | |||
| Courage to Care | ADL | ADL | 1 |
| Daniel's Story | USHMM | USHMM | 1 |
| Just a Diary | Anne Frank Center | Anne France Center USA | 1 |
| Not in Our Town | ADL | ADL | 1 |
| Zlata's Diary | Scholastic | Schlostic | 1 |
| In Binder | |||
| Daniels' Story- Video Guide | USHMM | SUHMM | 1 |
| FHM Teaching Trunk Curriculum | FHM | FHM | 1 |
| Remember the Childre, Daniel's Story | USHMM | USHMM | 1 |
| Spirit that Moves Us Vol 2, The | Rachel Quenk | Tilbury House | 1 |
| Zlata's Diary- Video Guide | Scholastic | Scholastic | 1 |
| USHMM Small Poster Set, 6 Posters | USHMM | USHMM | 1 |
| Courage to Care teacher guide | ADL | ADL | 1 |
| Not in Our Town teacher guide | ADL | ADL | 1 |
High School Teaching Trunk Inventory
| Title | Author | Publisher | Qty |
| Books | |||
| Alicia: My Story | Alicia Appleman-Jurman | Bantam Books | 30 |
| All but My Life | Gerda Weissman-Keline | Hill and Wang | 5 |
| Atlas of the Holocaust | Martin Gilbert | William Morrow and Company | 2 |
| Bystander's Dilemma, the | Louise Jacobson, Mary Furlong | 1 | |
| Can it happen again? | R Chartock, J. Spencer | Black Dog and Leventhal | 2 |
| Children in the Holocaust | Laurel Holliday | Washingtong Square Press | 4 |
| Diary of Dawid Sierakowiak, The | Alan Adelson, Editor | Oxford University Press | 5 |
| Dry Tears: The Story of a Young Girl | Nechama Tec | Oxford University Press | 30 |
| Facing History And Ourselves, Resource Book | Margot Stern Strom | Facing History & Ourselves | 3 |
| Farewell to Manzanar | Wakatsuki-Houston, James | Bantam Books | 5 |
| FHM Teaching Trunk Curriculum | FHM | FHM | 1 |
| Germany 1918-1945; A study in Depth | Greg Lacey & Keith Shepar | John Murray | 1 |
| Holocaust Personal Account, The | David Scrase/ wolgang Mie | Queen City Printers, Inc | 1 |
| Holocaust Poetry | Hilda Schiff, editor | St. Martin's | 2 |
| Holocaust, the- A Teacher's Resource Booklet + 12 Transp | Globe Fearon | Mind Sparks, Highsmith | 1 |
| I have lived a Thousand Years | Livia Bitton-Jackson | Aladdin Paperbacks | 10 |
| Images Before my Eyes | Lucjan Dobroszycki, Barbara | Schocken Books | 1 |
| Lily Cupboard, the | Sulamith Levey Oppenheim | Harper-Trophy | 1 |
| Mandela: from the life of the South African Statesman | Floyd Cooper | Puffin Books | 1 |
| Night | Elie Wiesel | Bantam Books | 30 |
| Nightfather | Carl Friedman | Persea Books | 1 |
| Other Victims, the | Ina Fridman | Houghton-Mifflin | 3 |
| Passage to Freedom | Ken Mochizuki | Lee and Low | 1 |
| Remember the Children, Daniels Story | USHMM | USHMM | 1 |
| Spirit that Moves Us Vol 3, The | Rachel Quenk | Tilbury House | 1 |
| Sunflower, The | Simon Wiesenthal | Schocken Books | 1 |
| Teaching about the Holocaust, Resouce Book for Educators | USHMM | USHMM | 1 |
| Teaching and Studying the Holocaust | Samuel Totten, Stephen Rein | Perarson Education | 1 |
| Teaching Holocaust Literature | Samuel Totten | Pearson Education | 1 |
| Tell Them We Remember | Susan D. Bachrach | Little, Brown, and Co | 2 |
| Voices & Views- A History of the Holocaust | Deborah Dwork | Jewish Foundation for the Ri | 1 |
| Voyage of the Damned | Gordon Thomas, Max Morga | Dalton Watson | 1 |
| CD-ROMS | |||
| Learning about the Holocaust | Beth Shalom (CD) | Beth Shalom | 1 |
| Lest We Forget | Colin Scott | Logos Research Systems | 1 |
| Posters | |||
| Survivor, Fragments Collection | FHM | FHM | 1 |
| USHMM Small Poster Set, 6 Posters | USHMM | USHMM | 1 |
| What's the Difference | UNHCR | UNHCR | 1 |
| Videos | |||
| Double Crossing, The | Andy Marko | Ergo Media | 1 |
| WWII The Propaganda Battle | CEL/BOM | 1 |
Armenian Teaching Trunk Inventory
| A Problem From Hell, Ch. 14, Conclusion | 10 |
| A Textual Analysis of the Key Indictments of the Turkish Military Tribunal Investigating the Armenian Genocide | 2 |
| AGRC Newsletter: Resources for Teaching the Armenian Genocide, Vol. 1, Issue 1 | 3 |
| Curriculum Guide for Teachers in Junior High and High Schools. Teaching One-Day, One-Week and Two-Week Units on the Armenian Genocide (binder) | 1 |
| Documentation of the Armenian Genocide in Germany and Austrian Sources | 2 |
| Faces - Armenia | 5 |
| Facing History and Ourselves: Crimes Against Humanity and Civilization: The Armenian Genocide | 15 |
| Genocide and Human Rights University Program (Required Reading) Volume 1 | 1 |
| Genocide and Human Rights University Program (Required Reading) Volume 2 | 1 |
| Genocide as a Problem of National and International Law: The WWI Armenian Case and It's Contemporary Legal Ramifications | 1 |
| Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol. 1, #2 | 1 |
| Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol. 3, #2 | 1 |
| Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol. 7, #2 | 1 |
| Inheritance: Art and Images Beyond a Silenced Genocide | 30 |
| International Journal of Middle East Studies Vol. 18, #3 | 1 |
| International Journal of Middle East Studies Vol. 34, #1 | 1 |
| Key Writings of Raphael Lemkin on Genocide (pamphlet) | 3 |
| Pages from My Diary | 1 |
| Poster set (5 total) | 1 |
| Prelude to Genocide | 2 |
| Remembrance and Denial | 1 |
| Teacher's Evaluation of: The Armenian Genocide of 1915 Materials | 10 |
| Teaching the Armenian Genocide: Resource Guide I | 1 |
| The 1915 Armenian Genocide in the Turkish Empire (map) | 9 |
| The Armenian Genocide (VHS) | 1 |
| The Armenian Genocide and the Legal and Political Issues in the Failure to Prevent or to Punish the Crime | 1 |
| The Armenian Genocide of 1915 | 1 |
| The Armenian Genocide: Documents and Declarations, 1915 - 1995 | 1 |
| The Armenian Genocide: Facts and Documents | 1 |
| The Armenians: Shadows of a Forgotten Genocide | 2 |
| The Burning Tigris | 15 |
| The California Courier, Vol. XLI #51 | 5 |
| The Forty Days of Musa Dagh | 1 |
| The Genocide Forum, Year 4, #1 | 1 |
| The Genocide Forum, Year 4, #2 | 1 |
| The Genocide Forum, Year 4, #5 | 1 |
| The Genocide Forum, Year 4, #7 | 1 |
| The Key Elements in the Turkish Denial of the Armenian Genocide | 1 |
| The New York Times, Vol. LCV, #32,081 | 10 |
| Truth be Told by Sara Nuss-Galless | 10 |
| Vahakn N. Dadrian: Brief Biography; Bibliography of Written Works | 1 |
| Web Sites | 8 |
| Who Still Talks Nowadays about the Armenian Genocide | 11 |
| Armenian Genocide, 90 Years Later (DVD) | 1 |
| Web Sites | 8 |
| Who Still Talks Nowadays about the Armenian Genocide | 11 |
| Armenian Genocide, 90 Years Later (DVD) | 1 |
Darfur Teaching Trunk Inventory
| Title | Author | Publisher | Qty |
| Book | |||
| Not On Our Watch | Don Cheadle & John Prendergast | Hyperion Books | 29 |
| Amnesty International: Darfur, A Call to Action | Gwen Fitzgerald | Amnesty International | 10 |
| Darfur: Genocide Before Our Eyes | Joyce Apsel | Institute for the Study of Genocide | 1 |
| Video | |||
| Devil Came on Horseback | docuramafilms | docuramafilms | 1 |
| Voices from Darfur | 1 | ||
| What Will it Take to Stop the Genocide in Darfur? | USHMM | USHMM | 1 |
| Witnessing Darfur: Genocide Emergency | USHMM | USHMM | 1 |
| Darfur: A 21st Century Genocide | New Media Mill | New Media Mill | 1 |
| Frontline: Darfur | 1 | ||
| "Upstanders" | CHGS | CHGS | 1 |
| Genocide Again: Darfur | CHGS and TPT | CHGS and TPT | 1 |
| Darfur Poster | 1 | ||
| Teaching Guide Binder | 1 | ||
Rwanda Teaching Trunk Inventory
| Title | Author | Publisher | Qty |
| Book | |||
| We wish to inform you…. | Philip Gourevitch | Picador | 30 |
| I Have Before Me A Remarkable Document…. | Sonja Linden | iceandfire | 30 |
| Video | |||
| Defying Genocide: Choices That Saved Lives | USHMM | USHMM | 1 |
| Ghosts of Rwanda | PBS | PBS | 1 |
| Hotel Rwanda | United Artists | United Artists | 1 |
| Rwanda: Do Scars Ever Fade? | History Channel | History Channel | 1 |
| Shake Hands With The Devil | California Newsreel | California Newsreel | 1 |
| Upstanders | CHGS | CHGS | 1 |
| A Good Man in Hell | USHMM | USHMM | 1 |
| Binder | |||
| Forsaken Cries: the story of Rwanda | Amnesty International | Amnesty International | 1 |
| Teaching Guide Binder | CHGS | CHGS | 1 |
