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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Hidden Children: Discovered
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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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Hidden Children: Quest for Family
After the end of World War II, Jewish survivors tried, with the help of Jewish organizations, to find the children they had left hidden in the care of others, or to find other family members. Many children had no memory of their...
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Kristallnacht
Kristallnacht, or Night of Broken Glass, signaled the beginning of the German plan to exterminate the Jewish people. Experience that night through videos of survivors and photographs.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Nuremberg Trials and Their Legacy
How do you bring justice to the millions of people killed in German concentration camps? The Nuremberg Trials attempted this challenge. Study how SS officers were put on trial and punished using the following primary sources. Included...
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Remembering D Day 70 Years Later
The D-Day invasion was a major turning point in WWII. Using primary sources such as oral histories, diaries, and memoirs, students can understand the uncertainty and hope that surrounded this time period.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Liberation
The liberation of the Nazi camps was not a primary objective of the Allied military campaign. However, as they crossed Europe and saw the atrocities, the troops freed prisoners and gave them medical treatment. Understand more about the...
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: World War I
Analyze how the conclusion of WWI led to an unstable peace which resulted in WWII. included on this site are short films, photographs, artifacts, and an extensive bibliography for further research.
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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Holocaust History Project
The Holocaust History Project offers excellent resources dealing with the Holocaust including essays, images, and quotes.
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Holocaust Memorial Museum: Wartime Fate of the Passengers of the St. Louis
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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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Nazi Olympics Berlin 1936: Jim Crow America
The U.S. Holocaust Museum presents historical information and photographs about the Jim Crow laws of the American South, which restricted the freedoms of black Americans. Focuses on the African American struggle for social equality in...
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Guidelines for Oral History Interviews
Speaking to people with firsthand knowledge of an event is an important way to gather information. Use these guidelines to help prepare for an oral history interview.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: German Soviet Pact
Read about the agreement between the Germans and Soviets that contained a secret section that provided for the partition of Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe between the two countries. Includes photographs, a map, and archival...
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Focus on Liberation
A site that documents D-Day and the start of the liberation of concentration camps throughout Europe.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Mapping the Ss Concentration Camp System
Mapping the SS Concentration Camp System over space and time from 1933 to 1945.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Music of the Holocaust
Numerous sound bites from concentration camp songs, protest music, partisan songs, ghetto songs and more. Each one has images and a short description of what was going on when the song was written.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Hidden Children: Expressions
After the Holocaust, the writings, poetry, songs, and artistic expressions of Jews who experienced it firsthand were collected. These expressions were in some cases ordered by the Nazis, or done secretly in concentration camps,...
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Auschwitz Through the Lens of the Ss
There are very few wartime photos of Auschwitz, however, an album was found in 2007. This album belonged to an SS officer and shows Auschwitz at a pivotal time when the gas chambers were running at maximum capacity while the officers...
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Alfred Rosenberg Diary
Alfred Rosenberg was responsible for looting artwork and books from German-occupied Europe. He kept detailed diaries that were recently tracked down and curated by the Holocaust Museum. Read the background on the mystery of these diaries...