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ReadWriteThink

Read Write Think: Using Comprehension Strategies With Elie Wiesel's Night

For Teachers 9th - 10th Standards
Working in small groups, students read and discuss Elie Wiesel's memoir Night and then take turns assuming the "teacher" role, as the class works with four different comprehension strategies.RI.11-12.4 Word meaning, RI.11-12.10b Text...
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National Foundation for Jewish Continuity: The Ss St. Louis Project

For Students 9th - 10th
Here's a piece of American history you problably know little about. In 1939 a ship filled with Jewish refugees sat off the coast of Miami waiting for permission to land. That permission was denied. Find out what happened to the...
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Internet History Sourcebooks Project

Fordham University: Modern History Sourcebook: German Invasion of 1941

For Students 9th - 10th
This site from the Fordham University provides an address by Vyacheslav Molotov, Foreign Minister of the Soviet Union, containing the Soviet reaction to Germany's invasion.
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Chosen People

For Students 9th - 10th
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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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Overview of Major Holocaust Asset Issues

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides a good, brief description of the international commission headed by Paul Volker to examine Holocaust-era claims against Swiss banks.
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Forced Labor

For Students 9th - 10th
This Jewish Virtual Library site describes what forced labor was during the Holocaust and how the German government is making reparations to these people now.
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: The Holocaust: Holocaust Denial

For Students 9th - 10th
A reference to those who have denied the Holocaust.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Death Marches in the Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
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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CommonLit

Common Lit: "Elie Wiesel" by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

For Students 9th - 10th
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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CommonLit

Common Lit: Anti Jewish Legislation in Prewar Germany

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Anti-Jewish Legislation in Prewar Germany" by The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be...
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Introduction to the Holocaust by the United States Holocaust Memorial

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Introduction to 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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CommonLit

Common Lit: "It's for You to Know That You Forgive", Says Holocaust Survivor

For Students 7th - 9th
This is the story of Eva Mozes Kor, a Jewish American survivor of the Holocaust. Eva and her family were forcibly transported to Auschwitz, where she and her twin sister Miriam were subjected to the conditions of the concentration camps...
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: German Soviet Pact

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about the agreement between the Germans and Soviets that contained a secret section that provided for the partition of Poland and other parts of Eastern Europe between the two countries. Includes photographs, a map, and archival...
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Heinrich Himmler

For Students 9th - 10th
This page has a biography of Heinrich Himmler. Includes speech delivered in 1943 to SS members. Links to related topics.
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Oskar Schindler (1908 1974)

For Students 9th - 10th
Excellent account of Schindler's attempts to save Jewish lives during World War II.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Night" by Elie Wiesel

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
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Seymour Brody

Florida Atlantic University: Jewish Heroes in America

For Students 9th - 10th
Provides biographical background on Rabbi Stephen Wise.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Animal Farm" by George Orwell

For Students 9th - 10th
Animal Farm is an allegorical novel about the animals of Manor Farm that drive out the human farmers and assume control. As time progresses, the dynamic amongst the animals moves from unity and equality to tyranny. Selected (7) reading...
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Art Cyclopedia

Artcyclopedia: The German Bauhaus School

For Students 9th - 10th
The biography of the German Bauhaus school founded in 1919 by Walter Gropius. Use this site out for more information, artist links and images.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Character Change: The Diary of Anne Frank

For Students 3rd - 8th
Students examine what Anne Frank's writing and a video dramatization of her diary reveal about her character and how it changed while she was in hiding.
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Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: World War Ii's Eastern Front: Operation Barbarossa

For Students 9th - 10th
The sources in this primary set document Operation Barbarossa, Hitler's massive invasion of the Soviet Union. Includes teaching guide.
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Digital Public Library of America

Dpla: Elie Wiesel's Night and the Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
This primary source set includes images, paintings, excerpts, and maps relating to concentration camps. Teaching guide included.
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A&E Television

History.com: 10 Things You May Not Know About the Nuremberg Trials

For Students 9th - 10th
The post-World War II trials marked the first-ever prosecutions for genocide and crimes against humanity. Held directly after World War II, the Nuremberg Trials were a series of 13 military tribunals in which nearly 200 German...
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Anne Frank's Family Home

For Students 9th - 10th
Discover the house where Anne Frank lived in Merwedeplein, Amsterdam, just before going into hiding.

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