The Holocaust - January 27

Monday, January 27, 2025

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day.

Today's Birthdays
Songs of the Day
Today's Theme: The Holocaust

ON THIS DATE

• 1880 -  Thomas Edison receives a patent for his incandescent lamp.
• 1967- Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee die in a fire during a test of Apollo 1.
• 1973 - The Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War.
• 2010 - Author J.D. Salinger dies in Cornish, N.H.

BIRTHDAYS

• 1756 - Austrian composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• 1832 - English author and mathematician Lewis Carroll
• 1850 - Labor leader Samuel Gompers
• 1885 - Composer and songwriter Jerome Kern
• 1948 - Dancer, choreographer, and actor Mikhail Baryshnikov

SONGS OF THE DAY 

• Mozart -  Eine Kleine Nachtmusik - LISTEN
• Paul Robeson - Old Man River (by Jerome Kern) - LISTEN

THEME:  Holocaust

• Grade 5 - NJTV Learning Live - Heroes of The Holocaust - Darnell Williams - Fifth Grade (56:04) - VIEW
• Grades 5-12 - NHPBS Video - Masterpiece -The Diary of Anne Frank Collection - VIEW and READ
• Grades 6-12 - NHPBS Video - Murals of the Holocaust Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Holocaust Unit (Available in Spanish) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 6-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Lessons from the Holocaust Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Harbor from the Holocaust  Collection - VIEW and DO
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - Harbor from the Holocaust (Full episode and clips) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - NHPBS Video - We'll Meet Again - Surviving the Holocaust (54:59)) - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMEdia - Meeting Max: A Holocaust Survivor's Story Collection - VIEW
• Grades 7-12 - PBS LearningMedia - PBS NewsHour - 70 Years Later, Holocaust Victim’s Dress Designs Come Back to Life - 94:23)VIEW and DO
• Grades 8-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Holocaust Photo Project: Lessons of the Holocaust (4:30) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 8-12 - NHPBS Video - Frontline - The Last Survivors (54:47) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Frontline -The Holocaust through Children’s Eyes - The Last Survivors Media Gallery - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The Story of the Jews - Holocaust in Plunge (6:05) - VIEW
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - The War - The Holocaust (7:45) - VIEW and DO
• Grades 9-12 - PBS LearningMedia - Remembering the Holocaust (6:19) - VIEW and DO
• Professional Development - PBS LearningMedia - Holocaust Pedagogy: Lessons of the Holocaust (10:32) - VIEW and READ
• Professional Development - PBS LearningMedia - Classroom Closeup - Number the Stars (5:05) - VIEW and DO

Pressroom Contact

Carla Gordon Russell
Director of Communications
crussell@nhpbs.org
(603) 868-4339