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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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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: "Auschwitz" by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Auschwitz" by The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
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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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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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PPT
BBC

Bbc: News: In Auschwitz

For Students 9th - 10th
A photographic tour of the concentration camp in Germany.
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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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Handout
Other

Auschwitz.dk: A Man of Evil

For Students 9th - 10th
Biographical information on the life of Hitler is given here at Auschwitz.dk. A focus of the content is on the Holocaust.
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Unit Plan
TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Lessons From Auschwitz: The Power of Our Words

For Students 9th - 10th
Classical music mastermind Benjamin Zander concluded his 2008 TED Talk by recounting the heartrending story of an Auschwitz survivor and her brother. This short animated piece highlights that story, reminding us that the words we speak...
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Website
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

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

For Students 9th - 10th
There are very few wartime photos of Auschwitz, however, an album was found in 2007. This album belonged to an SS officer and shows Auschwitz at a pivotal time when the gas chambers were running at maximum capacity while the officers...
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Article
Georgia Department of Education

Ga Virtual Learning: "No News From Auschwitz" by A. M. Rosenthal [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
This two-page PDF is the article "No News from Auschwitz" by A. M. Rosenthal, written after his visit to Auschwitz, the site of the Nazi concentration camp. It was published in The New York Times in 1958. RI.11-12.10b Text Complexity
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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
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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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Teachers: Auschwitz: Orders and Initiatives (Episode Guide)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Go directly to the teaching resource developed to accompany the second episode in the six-part documentary on Auschwitz ("Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State) broadcast by PBS. Find a discussion guide for clarifying the spread of Nazi...
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Website
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Through the Lens of History

For Students 9th - 10th
Choose your own mini-exhibit about the Holocaust to explore. Mini-exhibits include photographs of Schindler's factory, photos of Auschwitz, family pictures, identity cards and more. Each exhibit contains a summary and primary source...
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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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Website
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: And These Are Their Names

For Students 9th - 10th
A mass grave in Poland holds the remains of 45 victims of the Death March from Auschwitz. Yad Vashem works diligently to identify the remains and provide a proper gravestone. So far, 16 have been identified and you can read their stories...
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Curated OER

Unesco: Poland: Auschwitz Birkenau

For Students 9th - 10th
The fortified walls, barbed wire, platforms, barracks, gallows, gas chambers and cremation ovens show the conditions within which the Nazi genocide took place in the former concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau, the...
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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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Graphic
Curated OER

Auschwitz

For Students 9th - 10th
Auschwitz
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Curated OER

Auschwitz

For Students 9th - 10th
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Curated OER

Auschwitz

For Students 9th - 10th
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Curated OER

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For Students 9th - 10th
Auschwitz
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Website
Other

Auschwitz Alphabet: Zyklon B (Poison Gas)

For Students 9th - 10th
This page describes how the Nazis used Zyklon B as a gassing agent.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" by John Boyne

For Students 5th - 9th
A wire fence stands between Bruno and Shmuel's friendship at Auschwitz, and tragedy beckons when Bruno's naivety and his distance from his family take him beyond the fence. Selected (9) reading passages (grades 5-9) to pair with "The Boy...

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