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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Lublin/majdanek Concentration Camp

For Students 9th - 10th
An account of the role the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland played both in providing labor for the Nazi war effort and in the "final solution" the Nazis planned.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Concentration Camps: 1939 1942

For Students 9th - 10th
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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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Concentration Camps, 1942 1945

For Students 9th - 10th
Article details the Nazi need for forced labor and the solution they found in the concentration camps they established. It also mentions the use of prisoners in medical experiments.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Sobibor

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the Nazi concentration camp at Sobibor in Poland, and of the prisoner uprising there.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Treblinka

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the Nazi development and use of the extermination camp at Treblinka in Poland during World War II.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Jasenovac

For Students 9th - 10th
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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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

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

For Students 9th - 10th
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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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Deportation to Killing Centers

For Students 9th - 10th
Text details the planned methods of moving Holocaust victims from ghettos and labor camps to extermination camps during World War II.