Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: The Death March to Volary
The Death March to Volary began when Allied forces were getting closing in on the camps so the SS forced the woman to evacuate and march close to 500 miles. 1300 women began marching and only 350 survived. This online exhibit includes...
PBS
Pbs: Mapping the Holocaust
When Allied forces reached the concentration camps in WWII, they were not prepared for the devastation that they saw. The soldiers filmed what they witnessed and Frontline used the footage in the documentary Memory of the Camps [57:35]...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Deportation to the Death Camps
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...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: The Death Camps
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...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Labor and Concentration Camps
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...
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: The Liberation of Bergen Belsen
A pictorial history of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by British troops in April 1945 includes stories, quotes, and primary source documents.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Remaining Ghettos and Camps
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.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Daily Life in the Camps
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...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Ghettos
A description of life in the Jewish ghettos of Eastern Europe during World War II.
Other
Encyclopedia of Ww Ii: Concentration Camps
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.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center Resistance in Camps
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...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center the Nazi Extermination Camps
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...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center the Prisoner's World
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...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center Labor and Forced Labor Camps
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...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center the Terror Regime
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...
History of American Wars
History of American Wars: Concentration Camps
Examine the history behind the idea of concentration camps, one part of Hitler's solution to rid Germany of its "weak and inferior" citizens.
Other
Read Works: The Holocaust: Concentration Camps and Extermination Camps [Pdf]
An informational text about concentration and extermination camps during the Holocaust. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: Forced Labor
This Jewish Virtual Library site describes what forced labor was during the Holocaust and how the German government is making reparations to these people now.
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: Death Marches
This Jewish Virtual Library site describes the death marches that Nazi-held prisoners like the Jews, the Russians, and other minorities were forced to take from one concentration camp to another. On these marches the prisoners died...
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: Nazi Concentration Camps
This page has links to detailed pages on all of the concentration, labor, and extermination camps used by Hitler and the Nazis in WWII. These camps were used to round up and exterminate the millions of Jews and other minorities in Europe...
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: Drancy Concentration Camp
Describes what the Drancy concentration/death camp in France was like during WWII.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Focus on Liberation
A site that documents D-Day and the start of the liberation of concentration camps throughout Europe.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Mapping the Ss Concentration Camp System
Mapping the SS Concentration Camp System over space and time from 1933 to 1945.