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Holocaust Diary Project
Here is a good interdisciplinary project that combines creative and narrative writing with studies of the Holocaust. Your young historians will compose a diary of experiences from the perspective of an individual living during the time...
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Promote Tolerance on International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Delve into the history of Auschwitz to educate this generation about the Holocaust, genocide, and tolerance.
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Lessons from the Holocaust
Students prepare a reaction statement about what they read. In this Holocaust lesson students read several personal accounts from the Holocaust. The students answer a series of questions related to the Nazis and their concentration camps.
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Deportation and Loss
Seventh graders discuss the issues of isolation and deportation as they are related to the Holocaust. After reading a brief passage about deportation and confinement in a concentration camp, 7th graders discuss the feelings involved in...
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The Holocaust from Beginning to End
Students explore the events that occurred before, during, and after the Holocaust and create a time line showing how those events are connected. They create a time line showing the events that occurred before, during, and after the...
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Holocaust Pictures Exhibition
Students write reactions to selected pictures of the Holocaust. They view selected online pictures about the Holocaust and write their reactions. They use their knowledge about the Holocaust to write reactions to pictures about this period.
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Holocaust Word Search 2
In this history worksheet, students identify and locate vocabulary terms and/or names related to the events of the Holocaust. There are 54 words located in the word search.
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Internment of Japanese-Americans in Arkansas during WWII
Students identify the location, purpose, and details of the 2 Internment Camps in Arkansas for Japanese-Americans during WWII.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Buchenwald
A description of the concentration camp system at Buchenwald, and the varied types of prisoners who were held there before and during World War II.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Bergen Belsen
An article about the history of the Bergen-Belsen camp complex and the varied roles it played in the Nazi efforts to imprison a wide variety of populations throughout World War II.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Dachau
Article about the Dachau concentration camp which housed almost 200,000 prisoners, both political and ethnic, in the period between 1933, when the Nazis took power in Germany, and mid-1945 when the Allies liberated the camps.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Belzec
A description of the Belzec concentration camp in Poland, run by the Nazis between 1941 and 1943.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Nazi Medical Experiments
A description of the use of concentration camp prisoners for medical experimentation by the Nazis during World War II.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Concentration Camps: 1939 1942
Article summarizing the development and use of numerous concentration camps by the Nazis in the early years of World War II. The camps were used to provide forced labor, retain political prisoners, and any populations the Nazis wanted to...
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Treblinka
A description of the Nazi development and use of the extermination camp at Treblinka in Poland during World War II.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Jasenovac
Article about the concentration camps established by the Nazis in the area around Jasenovac in Croatia, and their use in eliminating political and religious opponents, as well as Jews shipped in from other places in Eastern Europe.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Ohrdruf
Article about the concentration camp at Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald. Ohrdruf was the first camp to be liberated by the Allied forces, in April 1945.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Auschwitz Through the Lens of the Ss
A collection of photographs taken by an SS officer, Karl Hocker, who was stationed at the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. Use the links on the page to go to related articles and the photographs
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Auschwitz
On this comprehensive website is the history of Auschwitz. You can click on maps, photographs, personal histories, and film footage.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Auschwitz: Chronology
Here you can find a chronology of events at Auschwitz from its construction to its liberation. Includes links to other concentration camps.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Introduction to the Holocaust
Online museum encyclopedia introduction of the Holocaust. Includes photographs, references for further reading, and links to related materials.
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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Deportation to Killing Centers
Text details the planned methods of moving Holocaust victims from ghettos and labor camps to extermination camps during World War II.
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Fcit: A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust offers an overview of the people and events of the Holocaust. Extensive teacher resources and student activities are included, as well as photographs, documents, art, music, movies, literature, and more.