Handout
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Drancy Concentration Camp

For Students 9th - 10th
Describes what the Drancy concentration/death camp in France was like during WWII.
Handout
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Nazi Concentration Camps

For Students 9th - 10th
This page has links to detailed pages on all of the concentration, labor, and extermination camps used by Hitler and the Nazis in WWII. These camps were used to round up and exterminate the millions of Jews and other minorities in Europe...
Primary
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center the Nazi Extermination Camps

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...
Primary
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center the Nazi Camp System

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...
Website
PBS

Pbs: Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State

For Students 9th - 10th
Companion website to the documentary about Auschwitz, the infamous World War II concentration camp. Includes biographies, glossary, timelines and historically significant photos.
Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Night" by Elie Wiesel

For Students 9th - 10th
Selected (10) reading passages (grades 8-11) to pair with the autobiography "Night" by Elie Wiesel. In this autobiographical account, Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel recounts his horrifying experiences at the Auschwitz and Buchenwald...
Website
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933 1945

For Students 9th - 10th
The Nazi government had many "racial enemies" foremost being the Jews. In this exhibit, The United States Holocaust Museum takes a look at one of the other groups targeted for persecution, homosexuals. Read the fascinating and tragic...
Primary
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center Labor and Forced Labor Camps

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...
Activity
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...
Primary
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center the Terror Regime

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...
Primary
Other

Sobibior, the Forgotten Revolt [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A stunning account of the most successful revolt and escape from a Nazi concentration camp. Read about the camp,Sobibor, and how it was set up. Then find out about the plans for escape and how that was carried out. Included are maps,...
PPT
Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: 70 Stories of Auschwitz

For Students 9th - 10th
On the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, 70 Holocaust survivors provide oral accounts of their experiences in the Nazi extermination camp.
Website
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Story of Lola Rein and Her Dress

For Students 9th - 10th
From The United States Holocaust Museum, the heart-wrenching tale of Lola Rein, a Polish girl who hid in a hole from the Nazis for seven months. Examine the dress she wore, her only remembrance from her mother, and access the Lola and...
Website
The History Place

The History Place: Statistics of the Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
This page from The History Place has a chart with the number of Jewish people killed in the Holocaust. Nearly 6 million Jewish people were murdered. This site is disturbing its apparent accuracy of the Jewish slaughter.
PPT
Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Remember

For Students 9th - 10th
Online multimedia exhibit represents three sides to the World War II tragedy: the Nazi perpetrator, the victim of the Nazis, and the Soviet liberator. Find out what could have happened if German Nazism had won.
Website
University of South Florida

Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust: Rescue and Liberation

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a detailed account of the liberation of the concentration camps by Allied forces and is accompanied by numerous photos, related website links, and video clips.
Handout
Other

Ben Austin's Sociology Corner: Chronology of the Holocaust: 1930 1945

For Students 9th - 10th
Factual chronology of the Holocaust from 1930-1945. Detailed accounts beginning with the National Socialist Party to the liberation of concentration camps.
Website
The History Place

The History Place: Holocaust: Reinhard Heydrich

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from The History Place provides a lengthy biography of the principal planner of the Final Solution in Nazi Germany, Reinhard Heydrich. The information is somewhat in-depth and worth checking out on the subject.
Handout
Other

Master of Death: Reinhard Heydrich

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information about the Nazi leader, Reinhard Heydrich, including a number of pictures of Heydrich and victims of the Holocaust.
Handout
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Report on the Holocaust in Romania

For Students 9th - 10th
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.
Primary
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Elie Wiesel's Night and the Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection uses primary sources to explore Elie Wiesel's Night and the Holocaust.
Article
CommonLit

Common Lit: "It's for You to Know That You Forgive", Says Holocaust Survivor

For Students 7th - 9th
This is the story of Eva Mozes Kor, a Jewish American survivor of the Holocaust. Eva and her family were forcibly transported to Auschwitz, where she and her twin sister Miriam were subjected to the conditions of the concentration camps...
Website
Other

Auschwitz Alphabet: Zyklon B (Poison Gas)

For Students 9th - 10th
This page describes how the Nazis used Zyklon B as a gassing agent.
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Curated OER

Photograph Showing Concentration Camp Prisoners in Their Hut

For Students 9th - 10th
A nice survey of the major events of the Holocaust from its origins in Nazi Germany during the 1930s to the death camps and what happened afterward.