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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Voices From the Lodz Ghetto

For Students 9th - 10th
The dire conditions children lived in during the German invasion of Poland are hard to imagine. These primary sources try to bring to life what they went through living in a Polish ghetto so we can understand the unimaginable. Sources...
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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...
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Krakow (Cracow)

For Students 9th - 10th
An account of the German occupation of the Polish city of Krakow, and the subsequent Nazi persecution of the Jewish population, especially the destruction of the Krakow Ghetto.
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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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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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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1980

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from The Nobel Foundation you can read about Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004 CE), the Polish author and 1980 Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. This website includes full-texts of Milosz's Nobel Lecture as well as some of...
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The German Invasion of Poland

For Students 9th - 10th
September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland beginning WWII. View primary sources curated by the Holocaust Museum to better understand the agony of this time period in Poland. Sources include videos, photographs, interviews, diary entries,...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Conquest of Poland and the Beginnings of Jewish Persecution

For Students 9th - 10th
With Hitler's conquest of Poland, the Jewish people were subjected to degrading and humiliating laws. Read a summary of the invasion of Poland and view primary sources such as photos, testimonies, video lectures, artifacts, and documents...
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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.