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Curated OER

Headlines

For Teachers 6th - 12th
Students analyze how newspapers report the news and compare the events that they now know about World War II as compared to what was publicized back then.
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Activity
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Photographs From the Warsaw Ghetto

For Students 9th - 10th
This resource presents photos taken in the Warsaw Ghetto that depict different perspectives of the lives of Jews living in this ghetto.
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Warsaw Ghetto

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

For Students 9th - 10th
The Warsaw Uprising illustrates the Jewish resistance in the ghettos, especially by the Jewish youth. Read a summary of the uprising and how it was thwarted by the Nazis. Examine primary sources such as photos, testimonies, video...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Teaching About Daily Life in Warsaw

For Teachers 9th - 10th
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...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Mutual Assistance Within the Ghetto Walls

For Teachers 7th - 9th
In order to make it through the dark days in the Warsaw Ghetto, Jews leaned on each other for support and guidance. Using the Warsaw Ghetto as an example, this lesson plan will highlight those who put their lives on the line to help...
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Handout
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Life in the Warsaw Ghetto

For Students 9th - 10th
Essay describing lives of Jewish people who were sent to live in the Warsaw Ghetto while the Nazis occupied Poland.
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Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

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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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Ghettos

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...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center Resistance in the Ghettos

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

Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center Resistance in the Ghettos

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...
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Other

Simon Wiesenthal Center: Dignity and Defiance

For Students 9th - 10th
An online exhibit that contains material pertaining to the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust as well as a map, chronology, and pictures. Click on 'Index' to see a table of contents.
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University of South Florida

A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust: The Ghettos

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a timeline of the Jewish condemnation to Ghettos. While learning about the Ghetto experience, click on one of the many links to definitions, sound clips, pictures, or related websites. There is an abundance of detailed...
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Handout
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: The Situation of the Jews in Warsaw After the Occupation

For Students 9th - 10th
Essay describing life for the Jewish people living in German occupied Warsaw, Poland.
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Handout
The History Place

The History Place: The Nazi Holocaust 1938 1945

For Students 9th - 10th
Article depicting the Nazi Holocaust from the beginning in 1938 with a simple boycott to the end in 1945 with the liberation of the death camps.
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Lesson Plan
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: "Until Then I Had Only Read About These Things in Books"

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Uri Orlev is a Holocaust survivor who wrote the book "The Sandgame". Using this book as a teaching tool, learners will relate to an individual victim of the Holocaust. This age-appropriate instructional activity includes background...
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Unit Plan
PBS

Pbs: American Experience: America and the Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS provides an accompanying website to their documentary on America and the Holocaust. Find special features, a timeline, an interactive map that depicts events from 1939 to 1945, primary documents and People and Events.
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Utah Education Network

Uen: Themepark: Liberty: The Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
Find a large collection of internet resources organized around the Holocaust. Links to places to go, people to see, things to do, teacher resources, and bibliographies.
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Other

Poland at War

For Students 9th - 10th
Images and information about the German occupation of Poland during World War 2. Provides images from the Jewish Ghettos in Poland and information about the treatment of the Jews.
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East of England Broadband Network

History's Heroes: Irena Sendlerowa (1910 2008)

For Students 3rd - 8th
This website explores the lives of heroic ordinary people who made their mark on history. Features illustrated story and timeline on Irena Sendlerowa, a heroine of the Holocaust. Find out who she was, what she did, her achievements, and...
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National Endowment for the Humanities

Neh: Edsit Ement: Holocaust and Resistance

For Teachers 9th - 10th
"In this lesson, young scholars reflect on the Holocaust from the point of view of those who actively resisted Nazi persecution." "includes images which should be reviewed in advance for their potential impact on students."
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Other

Kasprzyk's Website: A Summary of Poland's History

For Students 9th - 10th
A description of the history of Poland, starting with the Piast dynasty and moving forward to the current year.
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The History Place

The History Place: Holocaust Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a chronology of the events between January 30, 1933 when Hitler became Chancellor and, and the year 1961 when Eichmann was on trial in Jerusalem. There are many useful links that connect you with pictures and photos.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: "Final Solution": Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
Site created by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to explain the Final Solution, the Nazi plan to exterminate all Jewish people. Site provides extensive information about the plan and the method by using pictures and written descriptions....

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