Unit Plan-Teaching Holocaust Literature with Oral History

Our final exhibit is intended for high school English teachers teaching their classes about personal accounts of the Holocaust. The main source of literature for this unit is Night by Elie Wiesel. We incorporated activities to encourage students to learn more about the Holocaust and to contextualize survivors' narratives of this horrific event. This Unit Plan also incorporated John Rosenberg's oral history from Arwen Donahue's This is Home Now: Kentucky's Holocaust Survivors Speak as an additional account for the students to reflect on. We aimed to compare and contrast a survivor's written account with a survivor's oral account of Holocaust survival.