Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: And You Shall Tell Your Children
Even in the midst of the horror of the Holocaust, the Jewish people kept their religious traditions. "Walk" through this online exhibit and view how they celebrated Passover before, during, and after the Holocaust.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: The Synagogue on Praska Street
Learn about prewar life for the Jewish people by studying Jewish symbols, researching synagogues, and reading testimonies. Young scholars will use the Zagreb Synagogue, which was destroyed during WWII, as a case study. Materials include...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Boycott of Jewish Businesses
An article about the first boycott of Jewish businesses carried out by the Nazis in 1933. No one expected that this was the beginning of what would become the Holocaust.
Space Telescope Science Institute
St Sc I: Elie Wiesel's Relationship With God
An interesting paper by Wiesel. "The Holocaust presents one of the most disturbing theological dilemmas of the twentieth century. As a survivor of the Holocaust, Elie Wiesel has to reevaluate God in his world. He does so through is...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Here Their Stories Will Be Told
Each Jewish community during WWII had its own individual story to tell. This online exhibit highlights 12 of these communities. Select a community and read about life before, during, and after the Holocaust. Testimony from survivors is...
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: 19 Kilometers From Auschwitz
Photographic exhibit recounts the story of the Jewish community of Trzebinia, Poland: before the war, during the Holocaust, and their legacies.
Other
Teaching Tolerance: Pre Wwii European Jewish Life Photo Project
This set of lessons - comprised of five 45-minute sessions - will engage students in researching and understanding how individual Jewish communities and lives were affected by the Holocaust. By researching and analyzing family...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Buchenwald
A description of the concentration camp system at Buchenwald, and the varied types of prisoners who were held there before and during World War II.
Other
Lebensraum: Living Space for the German Race
Resource provides a discussion of the concept of "Lebensraum," or "living space" for the German people. This was one of Hitler's main justifications for his military conquests.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: War Crime Trials
Informative encyclopedia article describing the trials of major war criminals of World War Two. Most of these trials took place before representatives of the Allied powers known as the International Military Tribunal although some of the...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: If Everything Is Genocide
The author of this article discusses remarks by a Hamas representative where he compared the situation in Gaza to what happened during the Holocaust. His words were repeated before the UN Security Council. The author labels this type of...
The Atlantic Monthly Group
In Focus: World War Ii in Photos: A Retrospective in 20 Parts
See an extensive collection of photographs covering World War II compiled into twenty sections covering photos from before the war, many of the campaigns, the American homefront, the Holocaust, and after the war. Each photo has a caption...
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Anne Frank's Family Home
Discover the house where Anne Frank lived in Merwedeplein, Amsterdam, just before going into hiding.