US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Killing Centers: An Overview
A disturbing accounting of the Nazis' Final Solution, the extermination camps where millions of Jews and others were gassed during the Holocaust. Included are hyperlinks to photographs, personal stories, and film footage.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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....
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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...
The History Place
The History Place: The Nazi Holocaust 1938 1945
Article depicting the Nazi Holocaust from the beginning in 1938 with a simple boycott to the end in 1945 with the liberation of the death camps.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: The Stories of Six Righteous Among the Nations in Auschwitz
This online exhibit honors those that helped the prisoners in Auschwitz. It is comprised of men and women who were either prisoners or workers. Each one is a hero and honored as a Righteous Among the Nations. Read their biography and...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Auschwitz Birkenau Extermination Camp
Over 1,000,000 Jews were murdered in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. This camp was established with the goal of exterminating large amounts Jews in a rapid manner using Zyklon B gas. Read background information and view primary sources such...
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: 70 Stories of Auschwitz
On the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, 70 Holocaust survivors provide oral accounts of their experiences in the Nazi extermination camp.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Evacuation and Liberation of the Auschwitz Camp
Photographic exhibit details the evacuation and liberation of the Auschwitz camp in January 1945 by the Soviet 100th Rifle Division.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: The Auschwitz Album
An online exhibit of surviving visual evidence of what occurred at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Photos were taken by two SS men whose task was to take ID photos and fingerprints of the inmates.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Learning and Remembering About Auschwitz Birkenau
Teaching about the horrors that occurred at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp can be tough. This resource walks you through a lesson that includes background information, discussion questions, and primary sources. Young scholars...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Teaching About Auschwitz Through Art
Examining art from the Holocaust helps us to deepen our understanding of the Holocaust and view it as a human experience. You do not need to be an expert in the field of art to use it in the classroom. This site will give you guidelines...
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: Auschwitz Birkenau
The Jewish Virtual Library offers a detailed page explaining all aspects of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration/death camp. Contains pictures, personal accounts, and the history of what happened there.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: The Museum Site for Yad Vashem
The main site for the World Holocaust Center known as "Yad Vashem." Contains many links to all aspects of the Holocaust.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: 14 June 1940
The first transport of 728 Poles, political prisoners, was brought to the German Nazi Auschwitz camp from the Tarnow prison.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Auschwitz Camp Complex
Information about Auschwitz Camp Complex of camps, including a concentration, extermination, and forced-labor camp.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Landscapes of Experience
The maps and visualizations represented in this case study are a representative sample of the methodologies employed to explore the spatial, temporal, and experiential dimensions of the evacuations of more than 57,000 Jewish and...
The History Place
The History Place: Auschwitz Today
The History Place provides a virtual slide show of photos taken from a walking tour of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp.
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.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Auschwitz: Surprising Beginnings (Episode Guide)
Go directly to the teaching resource developed to accompany the first episode in the six-part documentary on Auschwitz ("Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State") broadcast by PBS. Find a discussion guide for clarifying how and when the Nazis...
PBS
Pbs: Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
Companion website to the documentary about Auschwitz, the infamous World War II concentration camp. Includes biographies, glossary, timelines and historically significant photos.
CNN
Cnn: Anne Frank's Arrest Might Not Have Stemmed From Betrayal
Who betrayed Anne Frank? This mystery has persisted for more than 70 years after police arrested Anne Frank and seven others in the secret annex.