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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Cronologia Del Holocausto (1933 1939)

For Students 9th - 10th
Spanish content; from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum we have the Spanish version of the Holocaust encyclopedia of the museum; in this case a "Cronologia del Holocausto (1933 - 1939)" or "Chronology of the Holocaust,...
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Enciclopedia Del Holocausto: Mauthausen

For Students 9th - 10th
Spanish content: From the United States Holocaust Museum this is the "Mauthausen" entry into the Spanish version of the museum's online Holocaust encyclopedia.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Lublin/majdanek Concentration Camp

For Students 9th - 10th
An account of the role the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland played both in providing labor for the Nazi war effort and in the "final solution" the Nazis planned.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Resistencia Espiritual en Los Ghettos

For Students 9th - 10th
Available in Spanish only: From the United States Holocaust Museum this is the "Resistencia espiritual en los ghettos" or "Spiritual Resistance in the Ghettos" entry into the Spanish version of the museum's online Holocaust encyclopedia.
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Reinhard Heydrich

For Students 9th - 10th
A detailed biography of "the Hangman" of World War II Nazi Germany.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: "Final Solution": Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
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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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Auschwitz Through Lens of the Ss

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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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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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Genocide of European Roma (Gypsies)

For Students 9th - 10th
Article detailing the persecution and annihilation of much of the European Roma population under Nazi orders during World War II, and the continued persecutionof the remaining Roma population in many countries after the war.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Holocaust History Animated Maps

For Students 9th - 10th
To fully understand the breadth and scope of the Holocaust, view the following maps of key locations. These maps are in video form with explanations provided. There are also links provided for further research.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Bergen Belsen

For Students 9th - 10th
An article about the history of the Bergen-Belsen camp complex and the varied roles it played in the Nazi efforts to imprison a wide variety of populations throughout World War II.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Nazi Propaganda

For Students 9th - 10th
Article about the Nazis' systematic use of propaganda as a way of controlling the ideas of the German people prior to, and throughout World War II. Propaganda was primarily created against Jews, Communists, and any groups which were not...
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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

Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Deportation to Killing Centers

For Students 9th - 10th
Text details the planned methods of moving Holocaust victims from ghettos and labor camps to extermination camps during World War II.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Hidden Children: Daily Life

For Students 9th - 10th
The daily experiences of Jewish children in hiding during World War II varied depending on whether they could hide openly or had to stay confined at all times. Opportunities to play were often limited or non-existent, and their...
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Concentration Camps, 1933 1939

For Students 9th - 10th
Article detailing the development and use of concentration camps in pre-World War II Germany to detain political enemies, subversives, and so-called "social deviants."
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Buchenwald

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the concentration camp system at Buchenwald, and the varied types of prisoners who were held there before and during World War II.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Nazi Medical Experiments

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the use of concentration camp prisoners for medical experimentation by the Nazis 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: Concentration Camps: 1939 1942

For Students 9th - 10th
Article summarizing the development and use of numerous concentration camps by the Nazis in the early years of World War II. The camps were used to provide forced labor, retain political prisoners, and any populations the Nazis wanted to...
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Emigration and the Evian Conference

For Students 9th - 10th
Article about the weak response that countries made to the need to open up immigration to more Jewish refugees prior to World War II. The arguments sound very familiar today.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Treblinka

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the Nazi development and use of the extermination camp at Treblinka in Poland during World War II.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Raoul Wallenberg and Rescue of Jews in Budapest

For Students 9th - 10th
The story of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who worked to save Hungarian Jews from deportation to Nazi extermination camps late in World War II.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: White Rose

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief history of "The White Rose," a student resistance group in Germany during World War II.