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Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Killing Centers: An Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Website
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: "Final Solution": Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Auschwitz

For Students 9th - 10th
On this comprehensive website is the history of Auschwitz. You can click on maps, photographs, personal histories, and film footage.
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Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Auschwitz: Chronology

For Students 9th - 10th
Here you can find a chronology of events at Auschwitz from its construction to its liberation. Includes links to other concentration camps.
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Activity
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

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

For Students 9th - 10th
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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Handout
The History Place

The History Place: The Nazi Holocaust 1938 1945

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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PPT
BBC

Bbc: News: In Auschwitz

For Students 9th - 10th
A photographic tour of the concentration camp in Germany.
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Website
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Stories of Six Righteous Among the Nations in Auschwitz

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Auschwitz Birkenau Extermination Camp

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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PPT
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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PPT
Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Evacuation and Liberation of the Auschwitz Camp

For Students 9th - 10th
Photographic exhibit details the evacuation and liberation of the Auschwitz camp in January 1945 by the Soviet 100th Rifle Division.
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Activity
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Auschwitz Album

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Lesson Plan
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Learning and Remembering About Auschwitz Birkenau

For Teachers 10th - 12th
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...
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Unit Plan
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Teaching About Auschwitz Through Art

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Handout
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Auschwitz Birkenau

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
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Website
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Museum Site for Yad Vashem

For Students 9th - 10th
The main site for the World Holocaust Center known as "Yad Vashem." Contains many links to all aspects of the Holocaust.
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Graphic
Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: 14 June 1940

For Students 9th - 10th
The first transport of 728 Poles, political prisoners, was brought to the German Nazi Auschwitz camp from the Tarnow prison.
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Article
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Auschwitz Camp Complex

For Students 9th - 10th
Information about Auschwitz Camp Complex of camps, including a concentration, extermination, and forced-labor camp.
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Unit Plan
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Landscapes of Experience

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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PPT
The History Place

The History Place: Auschwitz Today

For Students 9th - 10th
The History Place provides a virtual slide show of photos taken from a walking tour of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp.
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Website
History of American Wars

History of American Wars: Concentration Camps

For Students 9th - 10th
Examine the history behind the idea of concentration camps, one part of Hitler's solution to rid Germany of its "weak and inferior" citizens.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Auschwitz: Surprising Beginnings (Episode Guide)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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PBS

Pbs: Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State

For Students 9th - 10th
Companion website to the documentary about Auschwitz, the infamous World War II concentration camp. Includes biographies, glossary, timelines and historically significant photos.
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Article
CNN

Cnn: Anne Frank's Arrest Might Not Have Stemmed From Betrayal

For Students 9th - 10th
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.