Holocaust and Moral Courage Resources
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Resources at James White Library

Moral Courage/Education

  • LC268 .J34 1991. Jarrett, James L. The teaching of values : caring and appreciation. London ; New York : Routledge, 1991.

  • R.C.303.4 [1638] Media Center May, Rollo. How to teach youngsters to deal with social change. [Sound recording]. Chicago : Teach em, 197-. Dr. May talks about physical, moral and creative courage and how this relates to change in society and facing fears and anxieties.

  • LC283 .M66 1991. Moral values and higher education : a notion at risk. [Provo, Utah] : Brigham Young University ; Albany, N.Y. : Distributed by State University of New York Press, c1991.

  • BV1485 .N45 1992. Nelson, Carl Ellis. Helping teenagers grow morally : a guide for adults. Louisville, Ky. : Westminster/John Knox Press, c1992.

  • BF723.M54 R49 1994. Reuben, Steven Carr. Raising ethical children : 10 keys to helping your children become moral and caring. Rocklin, CA : Prima Pub., c1994.

  • BJ1533 .C8R58 Perm Res Rivera, Geraldo. A special kind of courage : profiles of young Americans. New York : Simon and Schuster, 1976.

  • BJ1521 .S35 1996 Schlessinger, Laura. How could you do that? : the abdication of character, courage and conscience. New York : HarperCollins, 1996.

  • LC268 .T393 1997. Teaching right and wrong : moral education in the balance. Staffordshire, England : Trentham Books, 1997.

  • LC268 .V263 1998. Values in education / edited by Joan Stephenson. London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

  • BV1464 .V45 1998. Ven, J. A. van der., Formation of the moral self. Grand Rapids, Mich. : W.B. Eerdmans, c1998.
Holocaust Rescuers
  • DS10.J4 B315713 1970 Bartoszewski, Wladyslaw. The Samaritans, heroes of the holocaust. New York : Twayne Pub., 1970.

  • D804.3 .D78 1994 Block, Gay. Rescuers : portraits of moral courage in the Holocaust. New York : Holmes & Meier, 1994.

  • D810.J4 F38 Feingold, Henry. The politics of rescue : the Roosevelt administration and the holocaust, 1938-1945. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1970.

  • D804.3 .F64 1994 Fogelman, Eva. Conscience & courage : rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust. New York : Anchor Books, 1994.

  • DS135.H9 H3573 1996 Handler, Andrew. A man for all connections : Raoul Wallenberg and the Hungarian state apparatus, 1944-1945. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 1996.

  • DS135.F83 L36 1996 Lazare, Lucien. Rescue as resistance : how Jewish organizations fought the Holocaust in France. New York : Columbia University Press, 1996.

  • D810.J4 L34 Leboucher, Fernande. Incredible mission. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1969.

  • D804.66 .S84 L48 1996 Levine, Hillel. In search of Sugihara : the elusive Japanese diplomat who risked his life to rescue 10,000 Jews from the Holocaust. New York : Free Press, 1996.

  • D809.S8 W326 1995 Marton, Kati. Wallenberg : missing hero. New York : Arcade Publishing, 1995.

  • D810.J4 O418 1988 Oliner, Samuel P. The altruistic personality : rescuers of Jews in Nazi Europe. New York : Free Press, 1988.

  • D810.J4 R35 Ramati, Alexander. The Assisi underground : the priests who rescued Jews. New York : Stein and Day, 1978.

  • 804.3 .S585 1992 Silver, Eric. The book of the just : the unsung heroes who rescued Jews from Hitler. New York : Grove Press, 1992.

  • DS135.P6 T29 1986 Tec, Nechama. When light pierced the darkness : Christian rescue of Jews in Nazi- occupied Poland. New York : Oxford University Press, 1986.
Holocaust Books for Children and Youth
  • D810.J4 F72 1952 Perm Res. Frank, Anne. The diary of a young girl. Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1952.

  • DS135.N6 F734 1985 Leigh, Vanora. Anne Frank. New York : Bookwright Press, 1985. Traces the life of a young Jewish girl who kept a diary during two years she and her family hid from the Germans in an Amsterdam attic.

  • PZ7.L9673 N8 1989 Perm Res. Lowry, Lois. Number the stars. Boston : Houghton Mifflin Co., 1989. In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

  • PZ7.M423964 A38 1996 Perm. Res. Matas, Carol. After the war. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1996. After being released from Buchenwald at the end of World War II, fifteen-year-old Ruth risks her life to lead a group of children across Europe to Palestine.

  • PZ7.M423964 G7 1998 CH.C. Matas, Carol. Greater than angels. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 1998. Story of Anna, a teenaged German Jewish refugee, cared for by the citizens of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France during the German occupation.

  • D804.3 .M63 1997 CH.C. Mochizuki, Ken. Passage to freedom : the Sugihara story. New York : Lee & Low Books, 1997. Story of Japanese diplomat who rescued Polish Jews.

  • D804.3.R64 1988 Perm Res. Rogasky, Barbara. Smoke and ashes : the story of the Holocaust. New York : Holiday House, 1988. Examines the causes, events, and legacies of the Holocaust.
Holocaust/Moral Courage Videos
  • D810.J4 A753 1994. America and the Holocaust [videorecording] : deceit and indifference. [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Video, c1994. Uses interviews, official photos, home movies, and archival footage to explore the factors that shaped America's response to the Holocaust through the experiences of a Jewish refugee trying to save his parents, and through documented evidence of official policy of the U.S. government.

  • DS135.N5 A8. The attic [videorecording] : the hiding of Anne Frank / RHI Entertainment, Inc. ; [United States] : Cabin Fever Entertainment, [1992] Based on the book "Anne Frank Remembered" by Miep Gies. During the World War II Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, Miep Gies risks everything to hide two Jewish families in the attic over the office where she works.

  • PN1997.B62 I54. Das Boot ist voll [videorecording] = The boat is full ; ein Film von Markus Imhoof. New York : First Run/Quartet Release, [1989]. German dialogue, English subtitles. Originally issued as a motion picture in 1981. The story of a group of Jewish refugees who are trying to escape the Nazi holocaust by seeking asylum in Switzerland.

  • BM645.H6 C76 1992. The Cross and the star [videorecording] : Jews, Christians, and the Holocaust / a film by John J. Michalezyk. New York, N.Y. : First-Run Features, c1992. Examines the role of Christianity in the Holocaust and asks where the institutional churches and governments were while the Nazi atrocities were being committed.

  • PN1997 .D48 1984. The Diary of Anne Frank [videorecording] / Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation. Farmington Hills, Mich. : CBS/Fox Video, 1984. Videorecording of the 1959 motion picture. Dramatization of a young girl's diary describing the lives of eight people who hide in an attic for two years to avoid arrest by the Nazis.

  • D811.5 .H53 1990. The Hiding place [videorecording]. [Minneapolis, Minn.] : World Wide Pictures, c1990. Corrie, her father, and Corrie's sister, Betsie, lived quietly in the years before World War II. Later they worked with the underground in helping to save the lives of countless Jewish families. Though arrested and imprisoned in one of Nazi Germany's most dreaded concentration camps, Corrie and her sister learned that "there is no pit so deep that He is not deeper still."

  • D810.J4 H65 1994. Holocaust [videorecording] : the story of man's inhumanity to man. Los Angeles, Calif. : Republic Entertainment, Inc., c1994.Videocassette release of the 1978 film by Titus Productions, Inc. This drama unfolds through the lives of two families living in Nazi Germany. Follow the tragedy and triumph of the Weiss family. Parallelling their saga is the poignant transformation of Erik Dorf, an unsuccessfull lawyer prodded on by his ambitious wife to join the SS and enlist as aide to Heydrich, chief strategist of "the final solution."

  • DS145 .L66 1993. The longest hatred [videorecording]. Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, [1993], c1991.Traces anti-Semitism from its earliest manifestations in antiquity to the recent ominous outbreaks in Germany, Russia, and elsewhere.

  • DS135.G3315 M4 1995. Memory of the camps [videorecording]. [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Video, c1995. Stored in a vault in London's Imperial War Museum in London since 1945, the film is presented unedited and with the original script meant to accompany it. Presents archival motion picture footage taken by British and American photographers documenting the conditions Allied troops found when they liberated Nazi concentration camps.

  • LC268 .M67 1991. Morals and values in education [videorecording]. Notre Dame, Ind. : Golden Dome Productions, 1991. Theories of teaching morals and values.

  • D810.J5 P46 The people next door [videorecording] : survivor interviews & Holocaust resources. South Bend, Ind. : Kurt and Tessye Simon Fund for Holocaust Remembrance, 1998. Oral histories of 23 South Bend area residents who lived in Europe during the Nazi period--survivors, liberators, witnesses & rescuers. Study guide and CD-ROM.

  • D804.3 .P75 1991. Primo Levi [videorecording] : a sketch of his life. Princeton, NJ : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, c1991. Story of Primo Levi, an Italian Jew who survived confinement in a German concentration camp during W.W.II, then wrote about his experiences. Interviews with those who knew him.

  • PN1997 .S355 1994. Schindler's list [videorecording]. Universal City, Calif. : MCA Universal Home Video, 1994, c1993. The true story of the enigmatic Oskar Schindler, a member of the Nazi party, womanizer & war profiteer, who saved the lives of more than 1,100 Jews during the Holocaust.

  • PN1997 .S74 1986. Summer of my German soldier [videorecording]. New York : Simon & Schuster Video, c1986. An adaptation of Bette Greene's novel which explores the themes of friendship, prejudice, and self-esteem, through the story of Jewish girl in a small Southern U.S. town who helps a German prisoner-of-war escape during WWII.

  • D810.J4 S867 1996. Survivors of the Holocaust [videorecording]. [presented by] Steven Spielberg in association with Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. [United States] : Turner Home Entertainment, [1996], c1995. Chronicles the events of the Holocaust as witnessed by those who survived. The program weaves together archival footage and an original music score with survivors' personal testimonies and photographs, chronicling life in pre-war Europe, the devastating impact of Nazism, the liberation of the concentration camps and life fifty years later. Contains an additional segment, hosted by Ben Kingsley, which takes the viewer behind the scenes at Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. Included is footage of Steven Spielberg himself, discussing and describing this, his most ambitious project ever.

  • D804.3 .B56 1990. They risked their lives [videorecording] : rescuers of the Holocaust. [S.l.] : Gay Block, c1990. Interviews with people who took risks to save Jews from the Holocaust.

  • D804.66.S84 T74 1998. A tree for Sugihara [videorecording]. Derry, N.H. : Chip Taylor Communications, 1998. Story of Sempo Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who issued thousands of visas during World War II, allowing Jews to escape the Nazis.

  • F128.9.J5 W4. We were so beloved [videorecording] : the German Jews of Washington Heights / a film by Manfred Kirchheimer. New York : First Run Features, c1985. Documentary film dealing with the German Jewish community in New York City from 1933 to the present. This film chiefly consists of a variety of interviews with those German immigrants who fled Germany when Hitler came to power.