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Read Works: Digging for Nazi Gold
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about archeologists searching for buried Nazi gold. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: Life Under the Nazis
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about daily life for a child living in Nazi Germany. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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Read Works: A Child in Hiding
[Free Registration/Login Required] An elementary student interviews her Jewish grandfather about his experiences fleeing from Paris and hiding from the Nazis. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
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Read Works: Another Missing Person
[Free Registration/Login Required] Historical fiction about a boy named Ulrich living in Amsterdam in 1940 and his Jewish friends who stop coming to school. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading...
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Read Works: Eyewitness to History: Children of War
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage shares an interview of a World War II-era native German whose family fled Berlin. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and...
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On This Day: Ethnic Problems in the Soviet Union
A good article on how the ethnic problems in the Soviet Union developed, and the individual republics' demand for independence.
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: Chosen People
This Jewish Virtual Library site discusses why the Jews are the chosen people and how Jews and non-Jews feel about the status.
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Jewish Virtual Library: The Holocaust: The Einsatzgruppen
A history of the Einsatzgruppen, the paramilitary Nazi death squads during World War II.
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Jewish Virtual Library: Adolf Eichmann
A detailed biography of the Nazi Gestapo leader Adolf Eichmann.
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Jewish Virtual Library: The Holocaust: Holocaust Denial
A reference to those who have denied the Holocaust.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Death Marches in the Holocaust
A learning module that begins with "Death Marches in the Holocaust" by The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF...
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Common Lit: "Elie Wiesel" by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
A learning module that begins with "Elie Wiesel" by The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned online...
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Jewish Virtual Library: Gestapo
The Jewish Virtual Library offers a discussion of the Gestapo in Nazi Germany with links to additional related information.
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Jewish Virtual Library: Heinrich Himmler
This page has a biography of Heinrich Himmler. Includes speech delivered in 1943 to SS members. Links to related topics.
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Jewish Virtual Library: Death Marches
This Jewish Virtual Library site describes the death marches that Nazi-held prisoners like the Jews, the Russians, and other minorities were forced to take from one concentration camp to another. On these marches the prisoners died...
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Jewish Virtual Library: Drancy Concentration Camp
Describes what the Drancy concentration/death camp in France was like during WWII.
Seymour Brody
Florida Atlantic University: Jewish Heroes in America
Provides biographical background on Rabbi Stephen Wise.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Text Sets: World War Ii
World War II was the second war to embattle the entire globe, lasting from 1939 to 1945. It not only witnessed the Holocaust and the nuclear bombings of Japan, but became the deadliest conflict in human history. This collection includes...
The History Place
The History Place: Hitler Named Leader of Nazi Party
This site from The History Place provides information about Hitler's leadership when he is named leader of the Nazi party in 1921. This is a good site to check out on the subject.
Then Again
Then Again: Web Chron: Battle of Stalingrad
Outlines the 1942 Battle of Stalingrad between Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany.
The History Place
The History Place: Images of Anschluss
This site from The History Place provides archived photos with captions showing Nazi rule in Austria. A link to return to a WWII Timeline is also included.
Other
Leningrad Attacks
Excerpts from a Russian Naval Admiral's memoirs concerning the attacks on Leningrad.
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World War Ii in the Ukraine
Short essay describing how the Nazis easily took the Ukraine due to the fact that the Ukrainian people were unaware of Nazi beliefs regarding Slavic peoples.
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Ben Austin's Sociology Corner: Chronology of the Holocaust: 1930 1945
Factual chronology of the Holocaust from 1930-1945. Detailed accounts beginning with the National Socialist Party to the liberation of concentration camps.