PBS
The Diary of Anne Frank
While designed to supplement a viewing of the PBS Masterpiece Classic The Diary of Anne Frank, this resource can also serve as an excellent informational text and activity source for your learners on the historical context and timeline...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: World War Ii in Europe
A brief overview of the course of World War II in Europe.
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: Estimated Number of Jews Killed During World War Ii
Table broken down by country showing estimated numbers of Jewish people killed in each area during World War II.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Axis Alliance in World War Ii
A brief analysis of the Axis powers during World War II, and the causes they had in common.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Nazi Persecution of Soviet Prisoners of War
This article details the Nazi treatment of Soviet prisoners of war in World War II. Though it is not frequently discussed, there were almost as many Soviet prisoners killed by the Nazis as there were Jews.
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: The Holocaust: World War Ii
World War II and the Holocaust
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: The Aftermath of the Holocaust
An article about plight of people, especially Jewish people, who were displaced by World War II and had no homes to return to, and how the world-wide community did, and did not, aid them in the years immediately following the war.
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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Women During the Holocaust
The roles of Jewish women and women of other groups targeted by the Nazis is described, but the article also tells of the roles many women played in the various resistance movements during World War II.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Displaced Persons
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.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Jewish Population of Europe, 1933
Data by country of the Jewish population in Europe prior to World War II.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Mosaic of Victims
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.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Jehovah's Witnesses
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.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Liberation of Nazi Camps
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.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Pogroms
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.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Refugees
An explanation of the plight of refugees, especially Jewish refugees trying to emigrate from Germany just prior to and during World War II.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: The Third Reich
An overview of the rise of the Third Reich in Germany prior to World War II.
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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Forced Labor
A description of the role forced labor played in the Nazi treatment of Jews and Russian POWs during World War II.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Death Marches
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.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Lodz
Article about the German takeover of the Polish city of Lodz early in World War II.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Ghettos
A description of life in the Jewish ghettos of Eastern Europe during World War II.
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: The Holocaust: The Einsatzgruppen
A history of the Einsatzgruppen, the paramilitary Nazi death squads during World War II.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Jewish Population of Europe in 1945
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.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
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.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Anne Frank
Anne Frank's writing in her diary became one of the most recognized accounts of life for a Jewish family in Europe during World War II.