US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Timeline of Events
This comprehensive timeline tracks the Holocaust from it's roots to the Nuremberg Trials. This interactive timeline is broken down into 5 groups based on dates. Each grouping contains a short summary and multiple primary sources such as...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Refugee Crisis and Establishment of Israel
The story of how the plight of postwar Holocaust survivors brought about the establishment of a Jewish state in Israel.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Teachers Who Rescued Jews During the Holocaust
Teachers during the Holocaust endured watching children disappear from their classrooms. Instead of turning a blind eye to the atrocities around them, many put their lives on the line to rescue these Jewish children. Read biographical...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Stories of Women Who Rescued Jews During the Holocaust
A little over half of the Righteous of the Nations are women. These women put themselves in danger, and often lost their lives, trying to rescue Jews during the Holocaust. Read their personal stories and view pictures of these women of...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Art From the Holocaust
An exhibit in the Yad Vashem museum highlights art made during the Holocaust. Click on each piece of artwork to read background information on the artist. An external link takes you to a PDF explaining how the collection was curated.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Boycott of Jewish Businesses
An article about the first boycott of Jewish businesses carried out by the Nazis in 1933. No one expected that this was the beginning of what would become the Holocaust.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Displaced Persons
Article about the establishment of centers for displaced persons, especially Jews who survived the Holocaust, and about the subsequent emigration of most of those people in the decade following the end of World War II.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Nazi Camps
Extensive site created by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to explain the people involved with the Nazi concentration/death camps. Learn about who was targeted, and how those who led the camps were ultimately punished. Site provides...
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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: The Nuremberg Race Laws
This site from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum explains the Nuremburg Race Laws and how they institutionalized Nazi racial theory. This pertained not only to Jews, but also to the Roma and blacks. Be sure click on the links...
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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....
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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...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933 1945
The Nazi government had many "racial enemies" foremost being the Jews. In this exhibit, The United States Holocaust Museum takes a look at one of the other groups targeted for persecution, homosexuals. Read the fascinating and tragic...
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Kristallnacht
This is a link from The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on "Kristallnacht." Learn more about this unthinkable crime against Germany's Jewish population.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Deportation to Killing Centers
Text details the planned methods of moving Holocaust victims from ghettos and labor camps to extermination camps during World War II.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Jews and Sport Before the Holocaust: A Visual Retrospective
This exhibition tells the stories of Jewish athletes and the sports they took part in all over Europe prior to the Holocaust, of which many did not survive.
PBS
Pbs: The War: The Holocaust
At the online companion site of the PBS documentary series "THE WAR," read an in-depth article about the Holocaust.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The German Invasion of Poland
September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland beginning WWII. View primary sources curated by the Holocaust Museum to better understand the agony of this time period in Poland. Sources include videos, photographs, interviews, diary entries,...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Introduction to the Holocaust by the United States Holocaust Memorial
A learning module that begins with "Introduction to the Holocaust" 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...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Holocaust in Italy
The history of the Holocaust in Italy is generally well known, but to date there has been little systematic analysis of its spatial dimensions. The objective of this case study is to examine the Holocaust in Italy from a geographical...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Holocaust Survivor, Spared Gas Chamber by Twist of Fate by S. Nelson
A learning module that begins with "A Holocaust Survivor, Spared from Gas Chamber by Twist of Fate" by Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Elie Wiesel's Remarks at the Dedication of the Holocaust Musuem
A learning module that begins with "Elie Wiesel's Remarks at the Dedication of the Holocaust Museum" by Elie Wiesel, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Stories of Holocaust Survivors
Stories of six Holocaust survivors who immigrated to the US after World War II.
Other
Cyber Newseum: Holocaust: The Untold Story
This interactive exhibit dispels the myth that the Holocaust was a secret and explores reasons why Americans downplayed the reports from Europe.
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