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Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Displaced Persons

For Students 9th - 10th
Article about the establishment of centers for displaced persons, especially Jews who survived the Holocaust, and about the subsequent emigration of most of those people in the decade following the end of World War II.
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Website
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Racism

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of the term "racism" and how it impacted the rise of Nazism and World War II.
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Website
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Polish Victims

For Students 9th - 10th
Article about the Nazi movement to annihilate as much of the Polish population as possible during World War II. This article focuses particularly on the non-Jewish portion of the Polish populaton.
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Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Jewish Population of Europe, 1933

For Students 9th - 10th
Data by country of the Jewish population in Europe prior to World War II.
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Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Mosaic of Victims

For Students 9th - 10th
An analysis of the scope of Nazi persecution during World War II, including the Jews, Poles, Roma, and any groups people who did not support the Nazi cause.
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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.
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Website
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Non Jewish Resistance

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the various resistance and partisan groups who fought against or sabotaged the Nazis throughout Europe during World War II.
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Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Jehovah's Witnesses

For Students 9th - 10th
Article about the Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany during World War II, their attitudes toward the Nazis and the war, and their subsequent treatment by the Nazis.
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Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Liberation of Nazi Camps

For Students 9th - 10th
Article outlining the roles of the various Allied armies, including the Russian, American, and British forces, in liberating the Nazi concentration camps in the late months of World War II.
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Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Pogroms

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of the term "pogrom" and examples of pogroms in both 19th and early 20th century Russia, and in Germany and Eastern Europe during World War II.
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Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Refugees

For Students 9th - 10th
An explanation of the plight of refugees, especially Jewish refugees trying to emigrate from Germany just prior to and during World War II.
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Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: The Third Reich

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the rise of the Third Reich in Germany prior to World War II.
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Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Forced Labor

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the role forced labor played in the Nazi treatment of Jews and Russian POWs during World War II.
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Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

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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Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

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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Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Ghettos

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of life in the Jewish ghettos of Eastern Europe during World War II.
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Website
Other

Canadian War Museum: Democracy at War: Canadian Newspapers and the 2nd World War

For Students 9th - 10th
Canada's role in the Second World War is demonstrated in this exhibit through articles which appeared in newspapers throughout the country. Included are sections on Canada and the War, operations, and the Holocaust. It provides a...
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Unit Plan
East of England Broadband Network

E2 Bn: History's Heroes: The Heroine and the Holocaust

For Teachers 7th - 9th
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...
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Website
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Remember Me? Displaced Children of the Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
The Remember Me project seeks to document the wartime experiences of children who were separated from their families or orphaned at the end of World War II by identifying now-adult survivors from photographs taken by relief workers after...
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Handout
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: The Holocaust: The Einsatzgruppen

For Students 9th - 10th
A history of the Einsatzgruppen, the paramilitary Nazi death squads during World War II.
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Website
PBS

Pbs: The War: The Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
At the online companion site of the PBS documentary series "THE WAR," read an in-depth article about the Holocaust.
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Website
Other

Holocaust (Shoah) Research Resources

For Students 9th - 10th
Site offers extensive research resources regarding the Holocaust of World War II. This site has won awards from the History Channel and Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Courage in Denmark: Resistance to the Nazis in Wwii by Us Holocaust

For Students 7th - 8th
World War II (WWII), a global conflict that lasted from 1939 to 1945 involved more than 100 million people and over 30 countries. The Allied powers - including the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union - worked together...
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Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Jewish Population of Europe in 1945

For Students 9th - 10th
Article describing in statistical form the devastating effects of the Holocaust on the Jewish population and the flight of Jewish refugees during and after World War II in post-war Europe.