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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
Other

Poland at War

For Students 9th - 10th
Images and information about the German occupation of Poland during World War 2. Provides images from the Jewish Ghettos in Poland and information about the treatment of the Jews.
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Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Story of Raphael Lemkin

For Students 9th - 10th
An article about Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew who emigrated to the U.S. at the beginning of World War II. As a lawyer and scholar, he documented Nazi atrocities and coined the word "genocide."
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Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

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

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the hardships children faced in trying to hide from the Nazis, whether openly with false identity papers, or in a hiding place. These included hiding their Jewish faith and practices, being victimized by unscrupulous 'rescuers'...
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Website
The History Place

The History Place: The Nuremberg Race Laws

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The History Place provides a short explanation of the Nuremberg Laws during Hitler's reign. Site shows a chart issued by the Nazis to help distinguish Jews from Germans of mixed race.
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Handout
The History Place

The History Place: The Defeat of Hitler: The Final Solution

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the German flood of anti-Jewish propaganda and the brutal methods used by the Nazis against the Jews in order to achieve their Final Solution.
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Handout
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Adolf Eichmann

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed biography of the Nazi Gestapo leader Adolf Eichmann.
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: "Adolf Hitler" by Jessica Mc Birney

For Students 7th - 8th
Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was a German politician who was a leader of the Nazi Party and later became a dictator in Germany. Hitler's leadership in Germany resulted in World War II and the deaths of countless soldiers and citizens,...
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Activity
Read Works

Read Works: A Child in Hiding

For Teachers 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] A 5th grader interviews her grandfather about his experiences hiding from Nazis in a farmhouse after escaping his home in Paris. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
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Handout
CommonLit

Common Lit: Text Sets: The Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a collection of 26 Grade-Leveled texts (6-11) on the topic The Holocaust. The Holocaust was one of the worst genocides in history, in which Adolph Hitler's Nazi Germany killed over six million Jews and five million others deemed...
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Primary
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Do You Remember When?

For Students 9th - 10th
This online exhibit about is about the experience of being a young Jew in Berlin in the early 1940's. Includes real life stories and images of the personal belongings of real people.
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Handout
Other

Master of Death: Reinhard Heydrich

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information about the Nazi leader, Reinhard Heydrich, including a number of pictures of Heydrich and victims of the Holocaust.
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Handout
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Ghettos in Poland (1939 1941)

For Students 9th - 10th
Map of Jewish ghettos in Poland established by the Nazi's during the German occupation of Poland. Includes a short description.
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Handout
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Life in the Warsaw Ghetto

For Students 9th - 10th
Essay describing lives of Jewish people who were sent to live in the Warsaw Ghetto while the Nazis occupied Poland.
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Graphic
Curated OER

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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Website
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Non Jewish Victims of Persecution in Germany

For Students 9th - 10th
Hitler not only targeted Jews, but he also persecuted Gypsies, homosexuals, and the disabled. These groups were considered socio-racial problems that needed to be exterminated. Read a summary of each of these groups and view primary...
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Lesson Plan
National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Holocaust and Resistance

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"In this instructional activity, students reflect on the Holocaust from the point of view of those who actively resisted Nazi persecution." "includes images which should be reviewed in advance for their potential impact on students."
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Primary
The History Place

The History Place: Holocaust Timeline: Heinrich Himmler

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides a brief article illustrating one of the main leaders of the Nazi party in Germany during Word War II, Heinrich Himmler. Content includes numerous quotes "justifying" his role in exterminating the Jews.
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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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Handout
Other

Anne Frank House: The Story of Anne Frank: Others Went Into Hiding Too

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes the many people who, like Anne Frank, went into hiding in the Netherlands to escape capture by the Nazis. Talks about how they weighed their decision to hide or not to hide, and the consequences of discovery.
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Website
The History Place

The History Place: Rise of Adolph Hitler: Mein Kampf

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The History Place provides the blueprint for Germany's future, "Mein Kampf" which outlines categories of humanity, the superiority of Aryans, Aryan counterparts, the Jew, and military conquests. Contains quotes from "Mein...
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Website
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Fighting for Freedom

For Students 9th - 10th
Many Jews served in the armed forces to fight the Nazi's alongside the Allied Forces. These artifacts such as medals, uniforms, weapons, and religious items tell their story.
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Graphic
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
University of South Florida

Fcit: A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust offers an overview of the people and events of the Holocaust. Extensive teacher resources and student activities are included, as well as photographs, documents, art, music, movies, literature, and more.

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