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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Teaching the Holocaust Through Poetry

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Teaching a topic as emotional as the Holocaust requires different pedagogical techniques. One way to humanize the Holocaust is through poetry. This lesson centers around the poem "Refugee Blues" that was written a year before the war....
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Azerbaijan International Karabakh Conflict

For Students 9th - 10th
This site contains links to many articles about the Karabakh conflict with Armenia. Links to the history of the war, discussions, refugees, maps, and photos in articles from 1997 - 2000.
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Cuban Rafter Crisis

For Students 9th - 10th
Phenomenal site that explores the Cuban raft crisis of 1994 and the experiences of the thousands of Cuban refugees who left Cuba by raft. Included are videos, pictures, primary source documents, timeline of key events, and more.
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Website
Virginia Historical Society

Virginia Historical Society: Surviving War: The Home Front

For Students 9th - 10th
An online exhibition that looks at what life was like for Virginians under military occupation. Many of them became refugees rather than stay while Union troops invaded their lands, stealing crops, burning fields, and taking over homes.
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center the Free World and Holocaust Survivors

For Students 9th - 10th
Yad Vashem has the largest collection of Holocaust resources than anywhere else in the world. Their main objective is preserving all the stories of this time period so it is not forgotten or repeated. They have broken down the Holocaust...
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: The Dominican Republic's Haven for Jewish Refugees

For Students 9th - 10th
Offers a brief article on Jewish refugees who settled in the Dominican Republic between 1938 and the present day population.
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World Vision International

For Students 9th - 10th
The official homepage for the relief agency World Vision International. Students will find information on world crisis spots and on displaced people and refugees.
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PBS

Pbs Teachers: Well Founded Fear (Lesson Plans About Asylum Seekers)

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Two lesson plans about asylum seekers, one of which is based on the case of the SS St. Louis, an ocean liner of Jewish refugees seeking asylum from Nazi persecution in 1939. The lessons let young scholars discuss how U.S. immigration and...
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BBC

Bbc: Migrant Crisis: Migration to Europe Explained in Graphics

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent resource to learn about the migrant crisis in Europe. This collection features information and videos for research.
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Other

Esri: The Uprooted

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource provides a useful interactive map, charts, and other information connected to the global refugee crisis. The crisis areas featured include Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, South Sudan, and Sudan.
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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Gerson Rosales, Salvadorenos in Michigan

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on Salvadoran refugees and an offshoot of the Central American Peace and Solidarity Movement (CAPSM) that was devoted to aiding Central American refugees during the 1980s, the Deliverance Movement bailed refugees out...
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Immigration Policies

For Students Pre-K - 1st
A country-by-country accounting of the treatment of Jewish refugees during the early years of World War II in Europe. The citizens of some countries were heroic in protecting their Jewish population and refugees in their countries....
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Harvard University

The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online

For Students 9th - 10th
The Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online is a collection of hundreds of interviews of Soviet Refugees in the years of the Cold War. The collection is comprehensive including aspects of all walks of life of these refugees...
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Article
DOGO Media

Dogo News: Rami Adham Brings Joy to Syria's Children One Toy at a Time

For Students 9th - 10th
This is a heartwarming story of a man who is from Aleppo, but now lives in Finland, delivers happiness to the young refugees of Syria.
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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Gamze Kati Gumus, "Disposable: Immigrant Bodies in Contemporary Politics"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on the fate of immigrants and refugees during a time of political efforts to stop undocumented immigrants from entering the US. It focuses on the drowning of the Kurdi brothers.
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CNN

Cnn: Map of Afghanistan

For Students 9th - 10th
Portrays a map of Afghanistan showing its relationship to other countries in the region. Click on the words above the map for different topics such as military activity in 2001, where Afghan refugees are living, and Afghan civil wars....
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Other

National Foundation for Jewish Continuity: The Ss St. Louis Project

For Students 9th - 10th
Here's a piece of American history you problably know little about. In 1939 a ship filled with Jewish refugees sat off the coast of Miami waiting for permission to land. That permission was denied. Find out what happened to the...
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Article
Other

Amnesty: Millions Suffer in Northwest Pakistan

For Students 9th - 10th
This article discusses the atrocities being committed in Pakistan's North West frontier province as the violence increases and displaced refugees attempt to return home. (June 10, 2010)
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Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Holocaust Memorial Museum: Wartime Fate of the Passengers of the St. Louis

For Students 9th - 10th
An article about what happened to the Jewish refugees who tried to escape from Germany aboard the St. Louis early in World War II.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Can You Still Have Hope When Life Seems Hopeless?

For Students 9th - 10th
The Myanmar (also known as Berma) military has been accused of human rights violations with their increasingly violent persecution of Rohingya Muslims, an ethnic and religious minority in the nation. The violence in Myanmar has displaced...
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Article
Immigration and Ethnic History Society

Iehs: Genevieve Carpio, "Teaching #Immigration Syllabus"

For Students 9th - 10th
This article focuses on a series of #syllabi designed to provide a historical and theoretical context for critical social issues. This article addresses #ImmigrationSyllabus written in January of 2017. It provides a foundation for...
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University of Minnesota

Univerisity of Minnesota: Immigration Syllabus: Weeks 9 11

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Syllabus: Week 9: The 1965 Hart-Celler Act and the Remaking of Immigrant America. Syllabus: Week 10: Refugee and Asylum Policy, and Syllabus Week 11: How Globalization Produces Migration: Immigration Law, Economic Policy, and Global...
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PBS

Pbs: Immigration Myths and Realities Quiz

For Students 9th - 10th
Using information provided by the Urban Institute, the National Immigration Forum, the U.S. Committee for Refugees, and the U.S. Census Bureau, the creators of "The New Americans" challenge you to find out what you know and don't know...
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Migration Policy Institute

Migration Policy Institute: Immigration in the United States

For Students 9th - 10th
This country profile examines key legislative events that form the history of the U.S. immigration system, the size and attributes of the immigrant population in the country, the characteristics of legal and illegal immigration streams,...

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