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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Story of Lola Rein and Her Dress

For Students 9th - 10th
From The United States Holocaust Museum, the heart-wrenching tale of Lola Rein, a Polish girl who hid in a hole from the Nazis for seven months. Examine the dress she wore, her only remembrance from her mother, and access the Lola and...
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Mosaic of Victims

For Students 9th - 10th
An analysis of the scope of Nazi persecution during World War II, including the Jews, Poles, Roma, and any groups people who did not support the Nazi cause.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Westerbork

For Students 9th - 10th
Article about the camp at Westerbork, the Netherlands, originally created by the Dutch to intern Jewish refugees, but later used as a transit camp by the Nazis, a holding place for Jews being sent to other concentration camps.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Drancy

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the Nazi development and use of Drancy, a former police barracks in Paris, as a transportation camp for deporting Jews to extermination camps.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Jasenovac

For Students 9th - 10th
Article about the concentration camps established by the Nazis in the area around Jasenovac in Croatia, and their use in eliminating political and religious opponents, as well as Jews shipped in from other places in Eastern Europe.
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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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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Adolf Eichmann: Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
Follow a chronology of Adolf Eichmann's life and his participation in the "Final Solution" of the Nazis.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Voyage of the St. Louis

For Students 9th - 10th
A very informative article about the voyage of the SS St. Louis. Find out about the refugees on the ship, what happened to them, and how their treatment reflected world concern about those fleeing from Nazi persecution.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Rescue

For Students 9th - 10th
In spite of the great risk, many non-Jewish people across Europe undertook rescue operations, both great and small, to hide or remove people persecuted by the Nazis, especially Jews. This article discusses some of the most notable efforts.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Forced Labor

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the role forced labor played in the Nazi treatment of Jews and Russian POWs during World War II.
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PBS

Pbs: America and the Holocaust: Kristallnacht

For Students 9th - 10th
From the larger PBS site, America and the Holocaust. This essay describes the atrocities of Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938, across Germany. Find out what precipitated the violence against Jews all across Germany, and discover how the...
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Sobibior, the Forgotten Revolt [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A stunning account of the most successful revolt and escape from a Nazi concentration camp. Read about the camp,Sobibor, and how it was set up. Then find out about the plans for escape and how that was carried out. Included are maps,...
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: The Tragedy of the s.s. St. Louis

For Students 9th - 10th
The tragic tale of the Jewish refugees from Germany who boarded the SS St. Louis, hoping to find asylum in the United States is told here. It's a story of the umwillingness of many countries to help those persecuted by the Nazis. There...
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PPT
Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: "Faith in the Human Spirit Is Not Lost"

For Students 9th - 10th
Pictorial exhibit commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Righteous Program founded by Yad Vashem to honor rescuers who protected Jews from death and deportation during the Holocaust.
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Discovery Education

Discovery Education: The Holocaust's Legacy

For Teachers 9th - 10th
With this lesson plan, teachers can foster students' understanding of the devastating impact of the Holocaust. Highlights the racism of Nazi Germany and discusses the fact that many people still hold these types of beliefs today.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Jewish Resistance

For Students 9th - 10th
Article describes the various organized and individual resistance movements and actions taken by Jews in Germany and throughout Europe during World War II.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Kovno

For Students 9th - 10th
This article chronicles both the plight and the resistance of the Jews in the Lithuanian city of Kovno during World War II.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Voyage of the St. Louis

For Students 9th - 10th
An article about Jews fleeing the Third Reich on the transatlantic liner the St. Louis in 1939.
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Other

Hiding Jewish Children During World War Ii: The Psychological Aftermath

For Students 9th - 10th
An eye-opening article that describes the psychological consequences for Jewish children who were sent to the Netherlands to live in hiding from the Nazis, for their parents, and for the surrogate parents who hid them during the war....
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: German Jewish Response to the Nuremberg Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
The response to the Nuremberg Laws by the National Representation of the Jews in Germany, September 24, 1935.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Hidden Children: Discovered

For Students 9th - 10th
During the war, the Gestapo tried many means to locate Jews in hiding, even recruiting other Jews as informers. Sometimes hidden Jews were discovered accidentally during a raid.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race

For Students 9th - 10th
An online exhibit that displays many artifacts and documents relating to the medical experiments done to European Jews by the Nazis.
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Death Marches

For Students 9th - 10th
This Jewish Virtual Library site describes the death marches that Nazi-held prisoners like the Jews, the Russians, and other minorities were forced to take from one concentration camp to another. On these marches the prisoners died...
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Chosen People

For Students 9th - 10th
This Jewish Virtual Library site discusses why the Jews are the chosen people and how Jews and non-Jews feel about the status.

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