Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Don't Forget Me
Seeing the Holocaust through the eyes of a child can help students understand and empathize with the victims. Included in this lesson are eight albums made by children during the Holocaust and a guide to which albums are best for which...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Babi Yar
Babi Yar is a ravine that became the site of the mass murder of the Jews in Kiev during the occupation of the Soviet Union. This module gives a historical overview of Kiev, information on the Holocaust, and a summary of post-war days in...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Despite It All I Am Alive
Liberation was not only exciting, it was also heartbreaking and scary for a lot of the Jewish survivors. Many had no home or family to return to. Using this site, students can click on a picture and learn more about life after...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Using Photographs to Teach About the Holocaust
Photographs are an excellent way to teach about the horrors of the Holocaust. Using the information on this site, teachers can effectively plan lessons around historic photographs. Included is a video on how to teach using photos from...
American Rhetoric
American Rhetoric: Elie Wiesel: "The Perils of Indifference"
This is the audio and text of Elie Wiesel's speech "The Perils of Indifference" delivered on April 12, 1999, Washington, D.C. He discusses his experience in German concentration camps during the Holocaust and the dangers on indifference.
CommonLit
Common Lit: "Woman Who Helped Anne Frank Dies at 100 by Teri Schultz, Npr
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
CommonLit
Common Lit: "Who Was Anne Frank?" by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Elie Wiesel's Nobel Acceptance Speech
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each text is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see the...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Bearing Witness
Artifacts are essential to preserve the memories of the Holocaust. As survivors age, these pictures, testimonies, and documents are the only remaining items to tell the story of the Holocaust. Peruse the artifacts of the Holocaust with...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center New Beginnings
Yad Vashem has the largest collection of Holocaust primary sources 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...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center Displaced Persons Camps
Yad Vashem has the largest collection of Holocaust primary sources 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...
Other
Anne Frank House
Museum, devoted to all aspects of Anne Frank's life and her famous diary, makes available a walk-through recreation of the annex where Anne hid from the Nazis. Also includes an interactive timeline filled with wrenching details of the...
Other
Holocaust (Shoah) Research Resources
Site offers extensive research resources regarding the Holocaust of World War II. This site has won awards from the History Channel and Encyclopedia Britannica.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: The Ghettos
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...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Daily Life in the 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...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Holocaust Denial Laws
The denial of the Holocaust, anti-Semitic rhetoric and the growth of hate groups has led many European nations to pass laws criminalizing hate speech to stop the resurrection of Nazism in Europe. This article discusses individual...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Interviews
View videos that include discussions with survivors and specialists in Holocaust education. Click the drop-down menu to choose videos from survivors, artists, or scholars.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Are the Palestinians Really Paying for the Holocaust?
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...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Artifacts From the Holocaust
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...
Smart History
Smarthistory: Jewish History 1750 to Ww Ii
Overview of Jewish history from the Enlightenment to the Holocaust. Includes a discussion of the Reform and Orthodox movements, Hasidic Judaism, Zionism, and pogroms. With links to additional resources.
Other
Anne Frank: Lessons in Human Rights and Dignity
The story of Anne Frank is told in this long essay organized into chapters. Features include photos, and as well as extracts from Anne Frank's diary.
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: 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.
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: Reinhard Heydrich
A detailed biography of "the Hangman" of World War II Nazi Germany.