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Introduction to the Holocaust (Preparation for a Trip to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Eighth graders consider the Holocaust. In this Holocaust lesson plan, 8th graders prepare for a trip to the National Holocaust Museum by reading and analyzing testimonies of 2 former Nazis.
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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Racism
An explanation of the term "racism" and how it impacted the rise of Nazism and World War II.
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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Jewish Resistance
Article describes the various organized and individual resistance movements and actions taken by Jews in Germany and throughout Europe during World War II.
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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Non Jewish Resistance
An overview of the various resistance and partisan groups who fought against or sabotaged the Nazis throughout Europe during World War II.
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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Polish Victims
Article about the Nazi movement to annihilate as much of the Polish population as possible during World War II. This article focuses particularly on the non-Jewish portion of the Polish populaton.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Euthanasia Program
A detailed article covering the establishment of the euthanasia program initiated by Adolf Hitler's regime.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: "Final Solution": Overview
Site created by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to explain the Final Solution, the Nazi plan to exterminate all Jewish people. Site provides extensive information about the plan and the method by using pictures and written descriptions....
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Auschwitz Through Lens of the Ss
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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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933 1945
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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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Story of Lola Rein and Her Dress
From The United States Holocaust Museum, the heart-wrenching tale of Lola Rein, a Polish girl who hid in a hole from the Nazis for seven months. Examine the dress she wore, her only remembrance from her mother, and access the Lola and...
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Kristallnacht
This is a link from The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on "Kristallnacht." Learn more about this unthinkable crime against Germany's Jewish population.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Anne Frank, the Writer
An online exhibition about Anne Frank that focuses on her writing. Plenty of pictures, and translations of her writing, as well as transcripts of interviews with video clips.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Art and Politics of Arthur Szyk
Internationally known artist Arthur Szyk detailed illustrations of Jewish themes. During WWII, he drew numerous cartoons and cariacatures of Nazi Germany.
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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Einsatzgruppen (Mobile Killing Units)
A description of the role of the euphemistically-titled Einsatzgruppen as mobile killing units by the Nazis, including both where and how they were employed.
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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Genocide of European Roma (Gypsies)
Article detailing the persecution and annihilation of much of the European Roma population under Nazi orders during World War II, and the continued persecutionof the remaining Roma population in many countries after the war.
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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Liberation of Nazi Camps
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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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Women During the Holocaust
The roles of Jewish women and women of other groups targeted by the Nazis is described, but the article also tells of the roles many women played in the various resistance movements during World War II.
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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Children During the Holocaust
Read about the plight of children, especially Jewish and Roma children, during the Holocaust
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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Persecution of Homosexuals in the Third Reich
Entry describes the Nazi persecution of gays. Includes information on the criminal code Paragraph 175 and the pink triangle symbol used to mark gay men in concentration camps.
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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Jewish Population of Europe, 1933
Data by country of the Jewish population in Europe prior to World War II.
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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Pogroms
An explanation of the term "pogrom" and examples of pogroms in both 19th and early 20th century Russia, and in Germany and Eastern Europe during World War II.
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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: The Aftermath of the Holocaust
An article about plight of people, especially Jewish people, who were displaced by World War II and had no homes to return to, and how the world-wide community did, and did not, aid them in the years immediately following the war.
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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Refugees
An explanation of the plight of refugees, especially Jewish refugees trying to emigrate from Germany just prior to and during World War II.
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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: World War Ii in Europe
A brief overview of the course of World War II in Europe.