Bruno tiene nueve anos y desconoce el significado del Holocausto. Todo lo que sabe es que su padre, recien nombrado comandante de un campo de concentracion, ha ascendido en su trabajo, y que ha pasado de vivir en una confortable casa de Berlin a una zona aislada. Todo cambia cuando conoce a Shmuel, un nino judio que vive una extrana existencia paralela al otro lado de la alambrada. Bored and lonely after his family moves from Berlin to a place called...

"Nazism triumphed in Germany during the high era of Jim Crow laws in the United States. Did the American regime of racial oppression in any way inspire the Nazis? The unsettling answer is yes. In Hitler's American Model, James Whitman presents a detailed investigation of the American impact on the notorious Nuremberg Laws, the centerpiece anti-Jewish legislation of the Nazi regime. Contrary to those who have insisted that there was no meaningful connection...

Children's author Esmé Raji Codell recounts episodes from her transformative fifth-grade year.

"During the pilot year of a Los Angeles school system integration program, two sixth grade boys, one black, one white, become best friends as they learn to cope with everything from first crushes and playground politics to the loss of loved ones and racial prejudice in the 1970s"--

"One Survivor Remembers" videorecording tells the unforgettable story of Gerda Weissmann Klein's six-year ordeal as a victim of Nazi cruelty. Klein describes her years in Nazi labor camps and months on a forced death march. Though her experience was horrifying, Klein also remembers wonderful acts of decency and normalcy, testaments to the greatness of humanity. This teaching kit sheds light on the 20th century's terrible history of devastation and...