COVID-19 Educational Support - Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission

Educational Support during
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Quarantine

Whether you are an educator looking for instructional support, a student searching for research ideas, or an everyday citizen hoping to learn something new while sheltering in place, the THGC has something to suit your needs.

First, we invite you to utilize these resources:

Best Practices
Overviews
Vocabulary (Definitions are currently being added; feel free to Google individual terms that do not yet have definitions.)
Gregg and Michelle Philipson Collection and Archive (Currently under construction: not all items have description captions)

Check out other organizations offering online instructional support:

Echoes & Reflections: Spring Course
Facing History and Ourselves: Taking School Online
Texas Tech University Texas Liberator Project (sponsored by the THGC): Liberator App & User's Guide
Baylor University Institute for Oral History Oral History Testimony Projects (sponsored by the THGC): Liberator Oral Testimonies & Survivors of Genocide Oral Testimonies
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Teaching About the Holocaust Online: Resources for Distance Learning
Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum: Virtual Learning
Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio: Virtual Tour, Resources for Educators, and Resources for Students
Holocaust Museum Houston: Online Resources

Browse these videos on various topics:

Holocaust

April 20, 2020 Holocaust Memorial Museum of San Antonio virtual Yom HaShoah Commemoration
April 19, 2020 Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum virtual Yom HaShoah Commemoration
April 19, 2020 Holocaust Museum Houston virtual Yom Hashoah Commemoration Service
April 19, 2020 Yom HaShoah Commemorative Event for Austin, Texas produced by Phil Klein
April 18, 2020 El Paso Holocaust Museum & Study Center virtual Yom HaShoah Commemoration - Holocaust Days of Remembrance
A Night at the Garden - 1939 German American Bund Rally
Anne Frank Secret Annex
Brundibár, original children's opera performed at Terezín
Chava Alberstein, "Zog Nit Keynmol" Jewish partisans song with English subtitles
Geddy Lee, "Grace to Grace"
Leonard Cohen, lyric video for final song “You Want it Darker,” 2016
Miejsce urodzenia [Birthplace]
“Misha tserayst Hitlers Daytchland [Misha tears apart Hitler's Germany],” from the 2019 Grammy-nominated Yiddish Glory: The Lost Songs of World War II
Ofra Haza performs “Chai” at Eurovision Contest in Munich, 1983
Ofra Haza, “Trains of No Return”
Raanana Symphonette Orchestra’s tribute to Alma Rosé (Channel 2 News)
Rose Lipszyc Interview
Rush, “Red Sector A”
Rush Vocalist Geddy Lee Radio Interview 2019 International Holocaust Remembrance Day
THGC Chair Lynne Aronoff's speech in Response to March 2019 Christchurch Attack
USHMM Music Database
Walter Kase Testimony

Armenian Genocide

Armenian Genocide Survivors in 2015
1.5 Million Reasons

Cambodian Genocide

Former Commissioner Ambassador Sichan Siv, “From the Killing Fields to the White House”
Huoy Meas (rock star/DJ murdered in genocide), “Sraulanh bong nas”
Pan Ron (rock star murdered in genocide), “Rom ago ago”
Ros Sereysothea (rock star murdered in genocide), “Penh jet thai bong mouy”
Sinn Sisamouth (rock star murdered in genocide), “Prous teh oun”
Socheata Poeuv on Khmer Legacies
Trailer, Don’t Think I’ve Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock & Roll
Yol Aularong (rock star murdered in genocide), “Cafe kmao”