Holocaust & Genocide Education
We support educators through workshops and institutes and by offering a myriad of resources for teaching age-appropriate lessons about the Holocaust and genocide.
Education Resources
- CHGS U.S.-Dakota War Unit Plan: From the “Sioux Massacres” to the “Dakota Genocide”: Minnesota’s “Forgotten War” in the State’s Newspapers from 1862 to 2012 (Also, see a video recording explaining the unit plan)
- CHGS Dakota Internment Lesson Plan: Dakhóta Internment at Fort Snelling at Bdote
A Sixth-Grade Minnesota Studies Lesson Plan (Also, see a video recording explaining the lesson plan) - CHGS image collections and public library collection (see open hours here)
- CHGS education resources in the UMN Digital Conservancy
- CHGS educator library hours: Spring 2020, Thursdays 5:00-7:00 pm (email chgs@umn.edu or call 612-626-2617 to reserve a parking voucher)
- Minnesota Holocaust Survivor Testimony
- Teaching Genocide through Art and addressing Denial
- Our growing list of resource guides
- Resources from The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Definitions:
We define the Holocaust as the destruction of six million European Jews by the Nazis
and their collaborators between 1933-1945.
We draw on two definitions of genocide:
1. As established by the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the
Crime of Genocide: Genocides are "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in
part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group."
2. As defined by historical sociologist Helen Fein: "Genocide is a series of purposeful
actions by a perpetrator(s) to destroy a collectivity through mass or selective murders
of group members and suppressing the biological and social reproduction of the collectivity."
We define the Holocaust as the destruction of six million European Jews by the Nazis
and their collaborators between 1933-1945.
We draw on two definitions of genocide:
1. As established by the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the
Crime of Genocide: Genocides are "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in
part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group."
2. As defined by historical sociologist Helen Fein: "Genocide is a series of purposeful
actions by a perpetrator(s) to destroy a collectivity through mass or selective murders
of group members and suppressing the biological and social reproduction of the collectivity."