CommonLit
Common Lit: Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps
A learning module that begins with "Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps" by The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Lublin/majdanek Concentration Camp
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.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Concentration Camps: 1939 1942
Article summarizing the development and use of numerous concentration camps by the Nazis in the early years of World War II. The camps were used to provide forced labor, retain political prisoners, and any populations the Nazis wanted to...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Concentration Camps, 1942 1945
Article details the Nazi need for forced labor and the solution they found in the concentration camps they established. It also mentions the use of prisoners in medical experiments.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Concentration Camps, 1933 1939
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."
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.
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: Drancy Concentration Camp
Describes what the Drancy concentration/death camp in France was like during WWII.
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: Nazi Concentration Camps
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...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center the Nazi Extermination Camps
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...
The History Place
The History Place: The Nazi Holocaust 1938 1945
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.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Nazi Camps
Extensive site created by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to explain the people involved with the Nazi concentration/death camps. Learn about who was targeted, and how those who led the camps were ultimately punished. Site provides...
History of American Wars
History of American Wars: Concentration Camps
Examine the history behind the idea of concentration camps, one part of Hitler's solution to rid Germany of its "weak and inferior" citizens.
The History Place
The History Place: Auschwitz Today
The History Place provides a virtual slide show of photos taken from a walking tour of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center the Nazi Camp System
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...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Nazi Medical Experiments
A description of the use of concentration camp prisoners for medical experimentation by the Nazis during World War II.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Sobibor
A description of the Nazi concentration camp at Sobibor in Poland, and of the prisoner uprising there.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Main Nazi Camps and Killing Sites
This interactive map shows all the concentration camps, extermination camps, and other kill sites during the Holocaust. Click an icon to access a report on each camp. Also included is a background summary of the Final Solution, video...
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: Reinhard Heydrich
A detailed biography of "the Hangman" of World War II Nazi Germany.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: "Final Solution": Overview
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....
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Remaining Ghettos and Camps
As the Soviet army approached Germany, the Nazis began to liquidate the Jewish ghettos and camps. Read a summary of this process, along with viewing photos, artifacts, documents, and art from this time period.
PBS
Pbs: Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
Companion website to the documentary about Auschwitz, the infamous World War II concentration camp. Includes biographies, glossary, timelines and historically significant photos.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Night" by Elie Wiesel
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...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933 1945
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...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center Labor and Forced Labor Camps
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...