With a Foreword by Dr. Michael Berenbaum

Through this remarkable new book that bridges the past, present, and future, you can teach the history and events of the Holocaust as a warning to students. You can show them the ethical lessons that have evolved from the Holocaust so they can connect these with the moral dilemmas they face in their own lives. And you can do it through a wide variety of film and literature that invites them to explore all aspects of the Holocaust. Each piece in this book is developed to encourage students to think critically, explore choices, and make decisions based on a code of conduct that reflects a commitment to humanity. The authors focus on the three main lessons of the Holocaust - thou shalt not be a victim, thou shalt not be a perpetrator, and thou shalt not be a bystander - and address the issues of courage, compassion, character, and civility.

The book is divided into nine specific topics, each based on the Holocaust and society's attempt today to learn from the past. And each topic is addressed through the reading of literature and viewing of films. With this book as your guide you will teach the Holocaust and its lessons, while clarifying and strengthening students' conviction about the code of conduct they will adopt as they go on in life.

Some of the films covered include:

• One Survivor Remembers
• The Hangman
• The Pianist
• Daring to Resist
• Schindler's List

• I Have Lived a Thousand Years (Livia Bitton-Jackson)
• Friedrich (Hans Peter Richter)
• Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
• Dry Tears (Nechama Tec)
• The Cage (Ruth M. Sender)

Photographs by Sharon Gurman Socol

Nowhere are you likely to see such a powerful, engaging, and enlightening resource for teaching the events of the Holocaust to middle and high school students as this one: Memories of the Night: Studies of the Holocaust, Second Edition. In three distinctive, clearly-presented sections, this guide works to help you bring the Holocaust and its message to your students — and to enable them to relate the lessons of the Holocaust to their own lives.

Through the history of the Holocaust, the voices of its victims, and a variety of activities designed to help students apply what they've read and learned, the authors guide you in presenting the material in a way that extends beyond the issues of the Holocaust to provide students with a framework for becoming empathetic, compassionate young adults with a set of values that include a responsibility for all humanity.