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.
CommonLit
Common Lit: "Auschwitz" by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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...
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.
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.
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...
Other
Auschwitz.dk: A Man of Evil
Biographical information on the life of Hitler is given here at Auschwitz.dk. A focus of the content is on the Holocaust.
TED Talks
Ted: Ted Ed: Lessons From Auschwitz: The Power of Our Words
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...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Auschwitz Through the Lens of the Ss
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...
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: "No News From Auschwitz" by A. M. Rosenthal [Pdf]
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
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...
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: 19 Kilometers From Auschwitz
Photographic exhibit recounts the story of the Jewish community of Trzebinia, Poland: before the war, during the Holocaust, and their legacies.
PBS
Pbs Teachers: Auschwitz: Orders and Initiatives (Episode Guide)
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...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Through the Lens of History
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...
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.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: And These Are Their Names
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...
Curated OER
Unesco: Poland: Auschwitz Birkenau
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...
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.
Other
Auschwitz Alphabet: Zyklon B (Poison Gas)
This page describes how the Nazis used Zyklon B as a gassing agent.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" by John Boyne
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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