In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, Cazenovia College professor Grazyna Kozaczka shared the materials she uses in the classroom with the college's honors students, in hopes of inspiring others to learn more.
Kozaczka came to the United States in 1980. She grew up in southern Poland, and took her first visit to the site of the Auschwitz concentration camp near Krakow when she was barely a teenager.
Her list includes books, movies and museums.
"This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen," by Tadeusz Borowski. The collection of short stories was written by a Polish survivor of the Holocaust, who was arrested and sent to Auschwitz at age 21.
"The Zookeeper's Wife" by Diane Ackerman. A work of narrative nonfiction that chronicles a family who hid 300 refugees in the cages once reserved for their animals at the Warsaw Zoo. Ackerman came to campus to discuss the book last semester.
"Korczak," 1990. A Polish film that tells the story of a Jewish educator and doctor who directed an orphanage for Jewish children in the Warsaw ghetto.
"The Good German," 2006. George Clooney plays an American war correspondent sent to Berlin in the aftermath of World War II.
The Museum of Jewish Heritage, Manhattan's Battery Park. Exhibits separate the Holocaust experience into three parts: Jewish life in Europe before the war, the fate of families during the Holocaust and the resurgence of Jewish life after the war.
The Jewish Museum, Fifth Avenue, New York City. A celebration of 4,000 years of art and culture.
U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, D.C. The living history memorial has welcomed 30 million visitors since it was dedicated in 1993.