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The Florida Holocaust Museum’s Education Department creates stimulating educational programs that engage learners through using highly developed materials on the Holocaust, Human Rights and Genocide studies. We strive to develop effective reading and communication skills to increase student achievement as well as to motivate critical thinking for visitors.

As part of the Museum’s mission to educate all people to recognize the worth of human life as to prevent future genocides, we encourage teachers to integrate human rights violations and other genocides into their curriculum. Because human rights violations and genocides remain current events, students have the opportunity to actively engage in the subject matter. Please visit the link below to the website created by Wendy Drexler’s third grade class at Shorecrest Preparatory School in St. Petersburg, Florida. This is an excellent classroom activity that shows how these students truly are Upstanders. May their efforts provide inspiration and hope for the future to us all.

It is our purpose to provide meaningful materials for students and teachers that provide a framework for teaching the lessons of the Holocaust. These materials have been carefully and sensitively chosen to teach students how children their age, who were involved in this terrible time in history, were resourceful, responsible, and creative in order to survive. We have included literature that shows how others helped, the importance of immigration, and how students can take action in today’s world.