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Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Enciclopedia Del Holocausto: Mauthausen

For Students 9th - 10th
Spanish content: From the United States Holocaust Museum this is the "Mauthausen" entry into the Spanish version of the museum's online Holocaust encyclopedia.
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Activity
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Auschwitz Through Lens of the Ss

For Students 9th - 10th
A moving online exhibit of photographs from an album of a Nazi officer who was the commandant at Auschwitz. The accompanying commentary includes a video, podcast, and comparison of the photos of Nazi officials to those of the inhabitants...
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Website
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933 1945

For Students 9th - 10th
The Nazi government had many "racial enemies" foremost being the Jews. In this exhibit, The United States Holocaust Museum takes a look at one of the other groups targeted for persecution, homosexuals. Read the fascinating and tragic...
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Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Liberation of Nazi Camps

For Students 9th - 10th
Article outlining the roles of the various Allied armies, including the Russian, American, and British forces, in liberating the Nazi concentration camps in the late months of World War II.
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Handout
The History Place

The History Place: The Nazi Holocaust 1938 1945

For Students 9th - 10th
Article depicting the Nazi Holocaust from the beginning in 1938 with a simple boycott to the end in 1945 with the liberation of the death camps.
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eBook
The History Place

The History Place: The Defeat of Hitler: 1939 1945: Quest for a Nazi Empire

For Students 9th - 10th
A 20-chapter book on the history of Nazi Germany over the course of the Second World War.
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Handout
History of American Wars

History of American Wars: Holocaust Timeline: Shoah

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive timeline showing the events between 1933 and 1945 that occurred during the progression of the Jewish Holocaust. It begins with several paragraphs describing the nature of the Holocaust.
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Website
Digital History

Digital History: The Coming of World War Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
The Treaty of Versailles that ended World War I set the stage for increased world conflict because of the crushing reparations required of Germany. See how Adolf Hitler, over a series of years, used opposition to the terms of the treaty...
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Primary
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center Camps as Instruments of Racial Policy

For Students 9th - 10th
Yad Vashem has the largest collection of Holocaust resources than anywhere else in the world. Their main objective is preserving all the stories of this time period so it is not forgotten or repeated. They have broken down the Holocaust...
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Lesson Plan
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Destruction and Rebirth at Bergen Belsen

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Bergen Belsen was a concentration camp which became a displaced person camp after liberation. By studying this camp, we can trace the path Jewish survivors took from prisoners to generating a new life. Students will come to understand...
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eBook
OpenStax

Open Stax: Fighting the Good Fight in Wwii 1941 1945: Victory in European Theater

For Students 11th - 12th
Examines the diplomatic negotiations among the Big Three leaders - Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin - during World War II. Discusses the invasion of North Africa, the invasion of Europe, the shock of seeing the impact of the Holocaust...
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Website
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Deportation to the Death Camps

For Students 9th - 10th
The Jewish people were packed into cattle cars with no ventilation and no food or water for days on their way to the camps. Many did not survive the deportation. Read a synopsis and view primary sources such as photos, testimonies, video...
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Website
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Death Camps

For Students 9th - 10th
The horrors of the extermination camps during the Holocaust are hard to wrap your mind around. The systematic killing of a group of people by gas or hard labor was part of Hitler's final solution. Read background information on these...
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Website
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Labor and Concentration Camps

For Students 9th - 10th
Forced labor camps were an integral part of the German war machine, with the goal of exploiting Jewish labor until the very end. Read background information and view primary sources such as photos, testimonies, artifacts, documents, and...
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Handout
Other

Simon Wiesenthal Center: About Simon Wiesenthal

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, prepared for the web site of the foundation that carries his name and whose ongoing work is one of bringing Nazi perpetrators to justice.
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PPT
Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Evacuation and Liberation of the Auschwitz Camp

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographic exhibit details the evacuation and liberation of the Auschwitz camp in January 1945 by the Soviet 100th Rifle Division.
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PPT
Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Remember

For Students 9th - 10th
Online multimedia exhibit represents three sides to the World War II tragedy: the Nazi perpetrator, the victim of the Nazis, and the Soviet liberator. Find out what could have happened if German Nazism had won.
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Lesson Plan
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Learning and Remembering About Auschwitz Birkenau

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Teaching about the horrors that occurred at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp can be tough. This resource walks you through a lesson that includes background information, discussion questions, and primary sources. Young scholars...
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Website
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Remaining Ghettos and Camps

For Students 9th - 10th
As the Soviet army approached Germany, the Nazis began to liquidate the Jewish ghettos and camps. Read a summary of this process, along with viewing photos, artifacts, documents, and art from this time period.
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Website
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Daily Life in the Camps

For Students 9th - 10th
Yad Vashem has the largest collection of Holocaust resources than anywhere else in the world. Their main objective is preserving all the stories of this time period so it is not forgotten or repeated. They have broken down the Holocaust...
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Handout
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Reinhard Heydrich

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed biography of "the Hangman" of World War II Nazi Germany.
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Handout
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Auschwitz Birkenau

For Students 9th - 10th
The Jewish Virtual Library offers a detailed page explaining all aspects of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration/death camp. Contains pictures, personal accounts, and the history of what happened there.
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Website
Other

Encyclopedia of Ww Ii: Concentration Camps

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a brief overview that examines the purpose and operation of German concentration camps during World War II. Suggestions for further reading are also made available. Uses popups.
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Unit Plan
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Final Solution

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teachers can choose from a range of teaching material to present the subject of the Final Solution to students. Materials include lesson plans, archival materials, presentations, testimonies, video lectures, and primary sources.