Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Daily Life in the Ghettos
Despite being cut off from the rest of the world and living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, the Jewish people found a way to continue to practice their faith and culture while living in the ghettos. View the following primary...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Lodz Ghetto
In 1940, Jews were forced into the Lodz ghetto and effectively cut off from the rest of the world with no food, water, or electricity. Disease and starvation killed many of the Jews living in Lodz. Read a synopsis and view primary...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Warsaw Ghetto
The Warsaw ghetto was the largest ghetto in Europe. The Jewish people who inhabited the ghetto were cut off from outside world and lived in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions. 80,000 Jewish people died in the Warsaw ghetto. Study a...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: The World's Reaction
How much did they know and when did they know it? Examine the response of the Allied powers to intelligence showing the mass extermination of Jews. Read background information and view primary sources showing that the Allies knew the...
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: 70 Stories of Auschwitz
On the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, 70 Holocaust survivors provide oral accounts of their experiences in the Nazi extermination camp.
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Google Cultural Institute: Before They Perished
This unique photography collection found at Birkenau after liberation includes scenes from the everyday life of families while showing the world of Polish Jews before the Holocaust.
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Holocaust Tutorial
Created to teach students of the 21st century, SOPHIA is bringing the holocaust and the concepts of genocide straight to your fingertips. Become the commander of your own learning experiences as you take part in this remarkable...
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Simon Wiesenthal Center: About Simon Wiesenthal
Information about Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal, prepared for the web site of the foundation that carries his name and whose ongoing work is one of bringing Nazi perpetrators to justice.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: "The Eternal Jew"
Photographic exhibit tells the story of Hitler's regime's humiliation of Jews and events leading to Kristallnacht, often referred to as the beginning of the Holocaust.
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Google Cultural Institute: The Liberation of Bergen Belsen
A pictorial history of the liberation of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp by British troops in April 1945 includes stories, quotes, and primary source documents.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Jan Karski. Humanity's Hero
Photographic essay features an array of photos, primary source documents, and first-hand video testimony from the man who attempted to inform the world about the existence of the Holocaust.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: The Voice of the Survivors
The stories of survivors of the Holocaust told in their own words is the best way to preserve the memories of this horrific event. Yad Vashem has collected these eye-witness testimonials over many years and continues to do so. This site...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Report on the Holocaust in Romania
This resource offers a very detailed report on the activities of the Germans and Romanians during World War 2 related to the deportation and killing of Jewish people.
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: German Jewish Response to the Nuremberg Laws
The response to the Nuremberg Laws by the National Representation of the Jews in Germany, September 24, 1935.
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Jewish Virtual Library: The Tragedy of the s.s. St. Louis
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...
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: British Restrictions on Jewish Immigration
A survey of British policies restricting Jewish immigration into the British mandate of Palestine. Includes a table of Jewish immigration numbers from 1919-1941.
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A Teacher's Resource for Night by Elie Wiesel
This teacher's resource provides opportunities for close reading of Elie Wiesel's memoir, Night. This resource is published by the nonprofit group, Facing Voices of Love and Freedom.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: 19 Kilometers From Auschwitz
Photographic exhibit recounts the story of the Jewish community of Trzebinia, Poland: before the war, during the Holocaust, and their legacies.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: "Faith in the Human Spirit Is Not Lost"
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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E2 Bn: History's Heroes: The Heroine and the Holocaust
A history unit taking a close look at Poland during World War II. Meet the courageous Irena Sendlerowa, who helped save thousands of children. Activities expanding students' understanding of this hero and how Poland was involved in the...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Seven Poems, Seven Paintings
When teaching about an event such as the Holocaust, using varying teaching methods helps to bring a deeper understanding of the human victims of this atrocity. Students will read seven poems pertaining to the Holocaust, view artwork...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Teacher's Guide for the Exhibition "Virtues of Memory"
Many survivors chose to release their feelings about the Holocaust through art. This artwork can be used in the classroom to create a more vivid way of understanding the Holocaust. Students will analyze and interpret some of this artwork...
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Yad Vashem: Despite It All, I Am Alive
Liberation was met with excitement, but also sadness and anxiety. Many people had no home or loved ones to return to. This easily navigable slideshow chronicles life after liberation, loneliness, DP camps, and new homes using photographs...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Teaching About Daily Life in Warsaw
This resource contains materials for a teacher to plan a lesson on the Warsaw Ghetto. Included resources are background information, presentation, photos, and a video. Lesson plans, self-study entries, and additional resources are also...