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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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Shoah Memorial: Mass Shootings of Jews in Ukraine 1941 1944

For Students 9th - 10th
See the moving documents on display at the Shoah Memorial which show the "holocaust by bullets" in Ukraine where more than one million Jews were shot by German mobile firing squads. Read about the exhibit; then click on documents to...
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National Park Service: Johnstown Flood National Memorial

For Students 9th - 10th
Information on the Johnstown Flood National Memorial and the park that "preserves the remains of the South Fork Dam and portions of the former Lake Conemaugh bed."
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James K. Polk Memorial Association's Site

For Students 9th - 10th
The James K. Polk Memorial Association has compiled a thorough guide to his life which includes many pictures.
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Uss Alabama Battleship Memorial Park: Park Memorials

For Students 9th - 10th
Explore the Vietnam Memorial, Korean War Memorial, and more memorials located throughout the USS Alabama Battleship Memorial Park.
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Jefferson Memorial

For Students 9th - 10th
One-page website includes a brief paragraph on Thomas Jefferson, a chronology of his life and a paragraph on the Memorial.
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National Park Service: The Indian Memorial Peace Through Unity

For Students 9th - 10th
Memorial for the Battle of Little Bighorn, a clash of Native and white cultures, which changed both forever.
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The Beirut Memorial Online

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is dedicated as a memorial to the US veterans of service in Lebanon. It contains links to history, news, support, remembrances, and other resources.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Axis Alliance in World War Ii

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief analysis of the Axis powers during World War II, and the causes they had in common.
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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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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Death Marches

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the forced marches the Nazis used to try to keep concentration camp victims out of the hands of the Allies in the last few months of World War II.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Boycott of Jewish Businesses

For Students 9th - 10th
An article about the first boycott of Jewish businesses carried out by the Nazis in 1933. No one expected that this was the beginning of what would become the Holocaust.
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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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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Warsaw

For Students 9th - 10th
An article about the Nazi treatment of the Polish capital, Warsaw, after the invasion of Poland. Information about the creation and destruction of the Jewish ghetto, and the later destruction of most of the city and its inhabitants.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Lodz

For Students 9th - 10th
Article about the German takeover of the Polish city of Lodz early in World War II.
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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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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Vilna

For Students 9th - 10th
A history of the German occupation of Vilna, and the Nazi extermination of the large Jewish population there.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Krakow (Cracow)

For Students 9th - 10th
An account of the German occupation of the Polish city of Krakow, and the subsequent Nazi persecution of the Jewish population, especially the destruction of the Krakow Ghetto.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Dachau

For Students 9th - 10th
Article about the Dachau concentration camp which housed almost 200,000 prisoners, both political and ethnic, in the period between 1933, when the Nazis took power in Germany, and mid-1945 when the Allies liberated the camps.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Belzec

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the Belzec concentration camp in Poland, run by the Nazis between 1941 and 1943.
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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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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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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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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Gassing Operations

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the Nazi use of poison gas to eliminate "undesirable" persons, whether because of their physical or mental health, or because of their religious or ethnic dispositions.

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