MICROSHORT STORIES
Holocaust Education Through Animation
Holocaust education through 90-second 3D animated films.
Each story. One life. One lesson.
About the Series
Stories that last 90 seconds.
Lessons that last a lifetime.
Microshort Stories are 3D animated short films that bring individual Holocaust stories to life in 90 seconds. Each episode focuses on one person — one act of courage, resistance, or witness — designed for classroom use with national standards-aligned lesson plans.
The Series
The Episodes
The Forger
Adolfo Kaminsky · Occupied Paris
An eighteen-year-old races to forge nine hundred identity papers for children marked for deportation.
The Boxer
Salamo Arouch · Auschwitz
He fought over two hundred boxing matches where losing meant death. He never lost a single one.
Four Photographs
The Sonderkommando · Auschwitz
A prisoner hides a camera in a bucket of ash and takes the only photographs of the gas chambers ever made by the victims.
Coming SoonThe Sultan Who Said No
Sultan Mohammed V · Morocco
"There are no Jews in Morocco, only Moroccan subjects." A sultan shields his Jewish citizens from Vichy persecution.
Coming SoonCoffins, Ambulances, and Suitcases
Irena Sendler · Warsaw Ghetto
Smuggled 2,500 children out of the ghetto; buried their names in jars under an apple tree.
Coming SoonThe Women Who Smuggled Gunpowder
Roza Robota & others · Auschwitz
Four women smuggled gunpowder to blow up Crematorium IV. Hanged 12 days before liberation.
Coming SoonThe Milk Can That Outlived the Ghetto
Emanuel Ringelblum · Warsaw Ghetto
A secret network sealed 30,000 pages in milk cans. Two were found. The third is still missing.
Coming SoonThey Dug a Tunnel with Spoons
232 Prisoners · Novogrudok
232 prisoners dug a 200-meter tunnel with spoons over 4 months. Escaped in one night.
Coming SoonThe Letter Thrown from a Train
Deportation Trains · Across Europe
She threw a postcard through a crack in the cattle car. A stranger mailed it.
Coming SoonThe City That Vanished in Weeks
50,000 Sephardic Jews · Salonika
The largest Sephardic community — 450 years old — destroyed in 8 weeks. 96% murdered.
Coming SoonHe Refused to Leave His Children
Janusz Korczak · Warsaw
Famous educator could have escaped. Walked to Treblinka with his 200 orphans, carrying the youngest.
Coming SoonThe Haggadah of Sarajevo
Dervis Korkut · Sarajevo
A Muslim librarian hid a 600-year-old Jewish manuscript in a mountain mosque while 10,000 Jews were murdered.
Standards Compliance
Aligned Across All 50 States
Every lesson plan is crosswalked to national learning standards, state Holocaust education mandates, and grade-band differentiation, making Microshort Stories ready to use on day one — wherever you teach.
Common Core ELA
Reading informational text, analyzing visual media, evidence-based argument writing, and narrative craft analysis. Aligned to CCSS ELA standards adopted by 41+ states.
C3 Social Studies Framework
College, Career, and Civic Life Framework: historical thinking, sourcing evidence, evaluating perspectives, and communicating conclusions. The national foundation for state social studies standards.
State Holocaust Education Mandates
Satisfies Holocaust education requirements in 25+ states including New York, Florida, California, Illinois, New Jersey, Connecticut, Michigan, Oregon, Colorado, and more.
CASEL Social-Emotional Learning
Builds self-awareness, social awareness, empathy, perspective-taking, and responsible decision-making through reflection and collaborative discussion.
Florida B.E.S.T. & Texas TEKS
Crosswalked to Florida's Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking and Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills for non-Common Core states.
Grade Bands Covered
7–8 · 9–10 · 11–12 — each lesson plan includes differentiated activities, discussion prompts, and assessments for all three grade bands.
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