This Unit Includes:
12+ Lessons | 4 – 6 weeks | Elementary – High School | Multi-Subject | No Teacher’s Manual Required
The Holocaust and Its Resistance Fighters
This isn’t just a history unit. It’s a lens, a spotlight, and a search for truth.
Your family will step into the shoes of an investigative journalist, uncovering one of the most tragic events in human history—not just the what, but the why… the warning signs, the rise, the silence, the resistance.
Before you even get to WWII, students will be guided through the world’s stage after WWI, the childhood of Adolf Hitler, the culture shift of a country, and how dangerous ideas can take root when we’re not paying attention. We go far beyond facts and dates. We make it real. We make it unforgettable.
Every lesson invites your students to investigate:
What led to this?
What voices tried to stop it?
Where would I have stood?
What does “never again” really require of us?
With real journalism-style prompts, students will build powerful critical thinking skills while learning about those who resisted, those who survived, and those who stood for justice when it mattered most. They’ll analyze propaganda. They’ll study ethical dilemmas. They’ll write, reflect, and ask questions many curriculums are too afraid to ask.
This is one of our most important units. It teaches truth. It builds discernment. It brings history to life through the power of journalism and storytelling… and it challenges students to ask:
What is my responsibility in the face of injustice?
It’s more than just history.
It’s character.
It’s courage.
It’s a call to remember, so it’s never repeated.
High school families may document this unit as shown on the course coverage/transcript/credit tabs above.
Core Connections Companion (quick glimpse):
English:
Investigative journalism, source credibility analysis, analytical composition, narrative nonfiction writing, exposés, and structured grammar instruction embedded within historical study.
Science & Health:
Human genetics and DNA, dominant and recessive traits, eugenics, medical ethics, and an integrated study of major body systems (circulatory, digestive, immune, nervous, muscular, skeletal, and integumentary) connected to resilience and survival.
Ethics & Philosophy:
Moral agency, justice, human dignity, worldview formation, moral relativism vs. objective truth, and the ethical challenges faced under authoritarian regimes.
This is a Full Unit, designed for the whole family to use together, whether you have one student or many. It includes 12 flexible lessons, typically stretched over 4–6 weeks (depending on your pace).
Most families complete 6–8 units per year. Think of one unit like a single “chapter” in a year-long curriculum.
This isn’t one-lesson-per-day curriculum. Each lesson may span multiple days. You set the rhythm.
Every unit is delivered as a PDF digital download, so you can start instantly. Prefer a printed book? You can get that, too! Want to understand all your print options? Flip to the “Print or Digital” page in our BROCHURE for a full breakdown of how to access print copies.
There are digital guidebooks:
- Growing Guidebook (elementary through middle school)
- Advanced Guidebook (high school to adult)
The Growing and Advanced Guidebooks share the same main lesson content. The difference is in the sidebars—color-coded and tailored by age. Think of it like reading the same Bible translation, but one has deep apologetics notes and the other has gentle prompts and kid-friendly commentary. Same core text, just age-adjusted insight.
This is intentionally designed to mimic higher-level education and real-world learning. You won’t find a separate teacher’s manual or student workbook because we don’t believe in busywork. Instead, each guidebook is written directly to the student (and the parent learning alongside) with real instruction, interactive prompts, and a flow that mirrors real-life, higher-level learning.
You’ll see natural cues like “Do this now,” “Write this in your notebook,” and “Pause to discuss,” built right into the lesson. Students learn through notebooking, narration, dictation, and hands-on exploration—no pre-planning required. It might feel different at first. That’s because it is… and it’s intentional.
Included is a Core Connections Companion, which dives deeper into academics across subjects, specifically integrating with the main unit topic. This is how you cover all your core subjects except math. That includes history, science, language arts, geography, art, and more. For transcript and syllabus help, see the links directly above.
Campfire encourages students to think deeply, not just check boxes. That means we don’t ask for rote answers; we ask for reflection, connection, and real understanding. For students used to worksheet-style learning, this can come as a shift. You might notice a transition phase as their brain adjusts to a higher level of engagement, and that’s part of the growth.
Some younger learners may need extra support or time. It depends on the child. If your student is used to rich read-alouds and open discussion, they may jump right in.
You know your child best, and this curriculum gives you the freedom to meet them right where they are.
Each unit includes access to our private LINKS page with videos, supply lists, book lists, and bonus resources—everything pre-screened and organized for easy use. Some units also have optional MP3 add-ons for auditory learners.
Page Count: 255 (GROWING), 255 (ADVANCED), 80 (CORE CONNECTIONS)
RELEASED: 2024
Ashley Peterson (verified owner) –
“First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for me”
– Pastor Martin Niemoller
We recently finished the Holocaust Unit. We spent an entire semester working through it. I’m not sure I could express in a short enough post here the gratitude I have for the creators of this unit.
WWII and the Holocaust are my favorite periods of history to study. The horrors of this time period are unfathomable, and I want to make sure the stories of the victims – those who survived and those who did not – are never lost.
Through this unit, my husband and I were able to talk to our kids about some really, really hard things. They were taught about some of the most horrific evils of this world but also about the grace and forgiveness that could only come through surrender to the Lord.
There have been lots of questions and discussions. There have been some tears. There have been some moments of silence. There has been prayer.
It has been, by far, my favorite unit I’ve done with our kids. I loved the way Campfire ended the unit, and so I’ll end my post with their final note:
“Evil is real, as the Bible points out. It’s around us, and this unit makes it evident. But in Christ, there is an everlasting, anchoring hope. It’s not a wish for something better; it’s a hope rooted in a definite promise we know is coming. CLING TO THAT!”
Thank you so, so much, Campfire for spending the time to create this unit. It is such a necessary subject to be explored, and you all did it thoroughly and thoughtfully.
Jade Staff (verified owner) –
We finished Campfire Curriculum’s Holocaust unit today, and I honestly don’t know if I can find the words to do it justice, but I really wanted to try to share because I know I glossed over this multiple times before picking it up and I’m sure others have too.
This was the first time we’d used separate guides, with my 11 year old completing the Growing Guide and my 13 year old the Advanced Guide. I have to say, Campfire judged the balance perfectly.
The actual deaths of the Holocaust were only briefly touched on in the Growing Guide. It acknowledged what happened without overwhelming my younger daughter, allowing the focus to stay on kindness, compassion and the stories of the people themselves. The Advanced Guide, however, went into much greater depth and gave my older daughter a far richer understanding of the events.
N, my 11 year old, really didn’t want to start this unit because she was frightened by the subject. Yet she made it all the way through. Afterwards I asked her to write what she thought, she said:
“The Holocaust curriculum was interesting and I liked how it showed people’s past and their present (in 1944). I was quite scared of the Holocaust while doing this unit because it scares me to think about how one human’s hate decides the fate of others, but the Campfire curriculum did it in a less scary way. I could tell that they cared for the lives and deaths of those who were killed… I think Campfire taught me in a more gentle way, which made it easier to go through.”
K, my 13 year also, also wrote a response that surprised me too:
“It was probably one of the best units I have done on Campfire. Not because of what it was about, but because of how it was written. It really made me want to learn about it. It was overall a very sad experience, but a good one. Before doing this, I hadn’t properly known what happened, but I learned so much from it.”
Later she simply told me, “It’s the best home education study I’ve ever done.”
As we worked through the unit, we also watched the BBC adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank and explored the Anne Frank website together, which complemented the study beautifully.
Today we finished by lighting the candle and talking about the world we want to live in. I genuinely feel all three of us have grown through this unit.
Perhaps what struck me most was reflecting on my own education. I realised I had only ever been taught the very bare minimum about the Holocaust. Talking to other adults, many said the same. One person told me, “Your children are getting the deepest education,” and I truly believe that.
This unit didn’t simply teach history. It taught empathy, compassion and the importance of standing up against hatred. Those are lessons I hope my girls carry in their hearts for the rest of their lives.