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Utah Education Network

Uen: Anne Frank in the World

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The Utah Education Network provides a collection of lessons on teaching about Anne Frank and the Holocaust. Of various lengths for grades 3-12. Support materials are included.
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Teachnology

Teachnology: Holocaust Teaching Theme

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This outstanding site provides worksheets, sites for background information, hands-on activities, WebQuests, interactive sites for students, lesson plans, and worksheet makers.
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: 1938 "The Fateful Year"

For Students 9th - 10th
1938 has been deemed "The Fateful Year" because Jewish persecution escalated. Jewish passports were revoked, Kristallnacht occurred, and Jewish property was forcibly taken. Read a summary and view primary sources such as photos,...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Conquest of Poland and the Beginnings of Jewish Persecution

For Students 9th - 10th
With Hitler's conquest of Poland, the Jewish people were subjected to degrading and humiliating laws. Read a summary of the invasion of Poland and view primary sources such as photos, testimonies, video lectures, artifacts, and documents...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Expansion of German Conquest and Policy Towards Jews

For Students 9th - 10th
As Hilter conquered countries, his hatred of the Jews spread. In each occupied country, the goal was complete removal of Jews by death or expulsion. Read background information and view primary sources such as photos, video lectures, and...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Daily Life in the Ghettos

For Students 9th - 10th
Despite being cut off from the rest of the world and living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, the Jewish people found a way to continue to practice their faith and culture while living in the ghettos. View the following primary...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Lodz Ghetto

For Students 9th - 10th
In 1940, Jews were forced into the Lodz ghetto and effectively cut off from the rest of the world with no food, water, or electricity. Disease and starvation killed many of the Jews living in Lodz. Read a synopsis and view primary...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Warsaw Ghetto

For Students 9th - 10th
The Warsaw ghetto was the largest ghetto in Europe. The Jewish people who inhabited the ghetto were cut off from outside world and lived in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions. 80,000 Jewish people died in the Warsaw ghetto. Study a...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The World's Reaction

For Students 9th - 10th
How much did they know and when did they know it? Examine the response of the Allied powers to intelligence showing the mass extermination of Jews. Read background information and view primary sources showing that the Allies knew the...
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: 70 Stories of Auschwitz

For Students 9th - 10th
On the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, 70 Holocaust survivors provide oral accounts of their experiences in the Nazi extermination camp.
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Before They Perished

For Students 9th - 10th
This unique photography collection found at Birkenau after liberation includes scenes from the everyday life of families while showing the world of Polish Jews before the Holocaust.
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Sophia Learning

Sophia: Holocaust Tutorial

For Students 9th - 10th
Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing the holocaust and the concepts of genocide straight to your fingertips. Become the commander of your own learning experiences as you take part in this remarkable...
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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: "The Eternal Jew"

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographic exhibit tells the story of Hitler's regime's humiliation of Jews and events leading to Kristallnacht, often referred to as the beginning of the Holocaust.
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: The Liberation of Bergen Belsen

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Jan Karski. Humanity's Hero

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographic essay features an array of photos, primary source documents, and first-hand video testimony from the man who attempted to inform the world about the existence of the Holocaust.
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Voice of the Survivors

For Students 9th - 10th
The stories of survivors of the Holocaust told in their own words is the best way to preserve the memories of this horrific event. Yad Vashem has collected these eye-witness testimonials over many years and continues to do so. This site...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Report on the Holocaust in Romania

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource offers a very detailed report on the activities of the Germans and Romanians during World War 2 related to the deportation and killing of Jewish people.
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: German Jewish Response to the Nuremberg Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
The response to the Nuremberg Laws by the National Representation of the Jews in Germany, September 24, 1935.
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: The Tragedy of the s.s. St. Louis

For Students 9th - 10th
The tragic tale of the Jewish refugees from Germany who boarded the SS St. Louis, hoping to find asylum in the United States is told here. It's a story of the umwillingness of many countries to help those persecuted by the Nazis. There...
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: British Restrictions on Jewish Immigration

For Students 9th - 10th
A survey of British policies restricting Jewish immigration into the British mandate of Palestine. Includes a table of Jewish immigration numbers from 1919-1941.
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Other

A Teacher's Resource for Night by Elie Wiesel

For Students 9th - 10th
This teacher's resource provides opportunities for close reading of Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night. This resource is published by the nonprofit group, Facing Voices of Love and Freedom.
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PPT
Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: 19 Kilometers From Auschwitz

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographic exhibit recounts the story of the Jewish community of Trzebinia, Poland: before the war, during the Holocaust, and their legacies.
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: "Faith in the Human Spirit Is Not Lost"

For Students 9th - 10th
Pictorial exhibit commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Righteous Program founded by Yad Vashem to honor rescuers who protected Jews from death and deportation during the Holocaust.