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CommonLit

Common Lit: Segregated From Its History, How "Ghetto" Lost Its Meaning

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Segregated from Its History, How "Ghetto" Lost Its Meaning" by Camila Domonoske, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a...
Handout
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Ghettos in Poland (1939 1941)

For Students 9th - 10th
Map of Jewish ghettos in Poland established by the Nazi's during the German occupation of Poland. Includes a short description.
Handout
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Life in the Warsaw Ghetto

For Students 9th - 10th
Essay describing lives of Jewish people who were sent to live in the Warsaw Ghetto while the Nazis occupied Poland.
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TED Talks

Ted: Ted Ed: Majora Carter: Greening the Ghetto

For Students 9th - 10th
Listen as activist, Majora Carter, details her fight for environmental justice in the South Bronx while arguing that race and class determine where the good and bad stuff are in communities showing how minority neighborhoods tend to...
Primary
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center the Ghetto Facing Extermination

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
eBook
Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: "A Rose of the Ghetto" by Israel Zangwill

For Students 9th - 10th
The text of "A Rose of the Ghetto" by Israel Zangwill. He was a British-Jewish author who wrote about ghetto life in England in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (Free site registration offers some additional features, e.g., the...
Unit Plan
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Teaching About Daily Life in Warsaw

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This resource contains materials for a teacher to plan a lesson on the Warsaw Ghetto. Included resources are background information, presentation, photos, and a video. Lesson plans, self-study entries, and additional resources are also...
Website
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Theresienstadt

For Students 9th - 10th
Theresienstadt was a Jewish ghetto used by the Nazi's in their propaganda campaigns as a model Jewish settlement. When in reality it was overcrowded, unsanitary, and infested with disease. Study the background of his ghetto and view...
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Budapest Ghetto

For Students 9th - 10th
This article examines the process of ghettoization of the Budapest Jewish population as it unfolded between May 1944 and January 1945.
Website
Digital History

Digital History: Watts: The Ghetto Erupts [Pdf]

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This site is from a unit called 'African-Americans in the Land of Equality.' It looks at the causes, events, and aftermath of the Watts Riots in 1965.
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Other

Amistad Digital Resource: Plantation to Ghetto: The End of World War One

For Students 9th - 10th
A good description of the role of African Americans in World War I and their hopes for less discrimination. Read about the migration to cities in the north, the soldiers who fought in the war, but also the racial violence and riots as a...
Handout
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.
Primary
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center the Jewish Councils

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Primary
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center Ghettoization Process

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Website
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: To Live With Honor and to Die With Honor

For Students 9th - 10th
How do your faith and spirit survive in times of great suffering? The Jewish people were faced with this challenge in the ghettos during the Holocaust. Despite the horror surrounding them, they preserved strong religious beliefs and...
Handout
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.
Lesson Plan
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Between the Worlds

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Using a specific ghetto as an example, read about the lives of children during the Holocaust. Topics include children and their parents, the world of children, and youth leaders. Each topic has background information and a lesson plan.
Website
Other

Simon Wiesenthal Center: Dignity and Defiance

For Students 9th - 10th
An online exhibit that contains material pertaining to the Warsaw Ghetto during the Holocaust as well as a map, chronology, and pictures. Click on 'Index' to see a table of contents.
Website
PBS

Pbs: Mapping the Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
When Allied forces reached the concentration camps in WWII, they were not prepared for the devastation that they saw. The soldiers filmed what they witnessed and Frontline used the footage in the documentary Memory of the Camps [57:35]...
Primary
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center Educational, Cultural Activities

For Students 9th - 10th
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...
Graphic
Curated OER

A Teachers Guide to the Holocaust: The Ghettos

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a timeline of the Jewish condemnation to Ghettos. While learning about the Ghetto experience, click on one of the many links to definitions, sound clips, pictures, or related web sites. There is an abundance of detailed...
Graphic
Curated OER

A Teachers Guide to the Holocaust: The Ghettos

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers a timeline of the Jewish condemnation to Ghettos. While learning about the Ghetto experience, click on one of the many links to definitions, sound clips, pictures, or related web sites. There is an abundance of detailed...
Handout
US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Vilna

For Students 9th - 10th
A history of the German occupation of Vilna, and the Nazi extermination of the large Jewish population there.
Handout
The History Place

The History Place: The Nazi Holocaust 1938 1945

For Students 9th - 10th
Article depicting the Nazi Holocaust from the beginning in 1938 with a simple boycott to the end in 1945 with the liberation of the death camps.

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