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Poland at War

For Students 9th - 10th
Images and information about the German occupation of Poland during World War 2. Provides images from the Jewish Ghettos in Poland and information about the treatment of the Jews.
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Blackdog Media

Classic Reader: Israel Zangwill

For Students 9th - 10th
This site offers the complete text of two short stories by novelist, playwright, and Zionist leader, Israel Zangwill: "A Rose of the Ghetto" and "The Woman Beater."
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Holocaust Museum Houston: The Butterfly

For Students 9th - 10th
A poem entitled "I Never Saw Another Butterfly" written by Pavel Friedman while living in the ghetto in Nazi Germany. Friedman was lather deported to Terezin Concentration Camp and died in Auschwitz. Links to teaching activities...
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The History Place

The History Place: Statistics of the Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
This page from The History Place has a chart with the number of Jewish people killed in the Holocaust. Nearly 6 million Jewish people were murdered. This site is disturbing its apparent accuracy of the Jewish slaughter.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Music of the Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
Numerous sound bites from concentration camp songs, protest music, partisan songs, ghetto songs and more. Each one has images and a short description of what was going on when the song was written.
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University of South Florida

Usf: A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust Art

For Students 9th - 10th
Art and music were not exempt from receiving Hitler's influence during the holocaust. Here you can view Nazi approved art, art considered "degenerate," art from inside the camps and ghettos, and art inspired by the holocaust. This is a...
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Deportation to Killing Centers

For Students 9th - 10th
Text details the planned methods of moving Holocaust victims from ghettos and labor camps to extermination camps during World War II.
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Don't Forget Me

For Students 9th - 10th
This online exhibit features albums created by children during the Holocaust. The albums were created in camps, ghettos, and while on the run. Click on an album to read a biography of the child and view pages from the album.
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Schindler's List as an Educational Tool

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Schindler's List can be used to as a jumping off point to lessons about the Holocaust. These interdisciplinary classroom activities revolve around certain aspects of the Holocaust such as children in the Holocaust, ghetto life, rescuers,...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Children's Diaries During the Holocaust

For Teachers 11th - 12th
Students will learn about the life of children and teenagers before and during the Holocaust by reading excerpts from their diaries. In the end, these children perished in the concentration camps. Read entries about their everyday life...
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Lodz

For Students 9th - 10th
Article about the German takeover of the Polish city of Lodz early in World War II.
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The History Place

The History Place: Holocaust Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a chronology of the events between January 30, 1933 when Hitler became Chancellor and, and the year 1961 when Eichmann was on trial in Jerusalem. There are many useful links that connect you with pictures and photos.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Kovno

For Students 9th - 10th
This article chronicles both the plight and the resistance of the Jews in the Lithuanian city of Kovno during World War II.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: "Final Solution": Overview

For Students 9th - 10th
Site created by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to explain the Final Solution, the Nazi plan to exterminate all Jewish people. Site provides extensive information about the plan and the method by using pictures and written descriptions....
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History of American Wars

History of American Wars: Holocaust Timeline: Shoah

For Students 9th - 10th
An extensive timeline showing the events between 1933 and 1945 that occurred during the progression of the Jewish Holocaust. It begins with several paragraphs describing the nature of the Holocaust.
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: "Until Then I Had Only Read About These Things in Books"

For Teachers 5th - 6th
Uri Orlev is a Holocaust survivor who wrote the book "The Sandgame". Using this book as a teaching tool, students will relate to an individual victim of the Holocaust. This age-appropriate lesson includes background information on the...
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University of South Florida

Fcit: A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust offers an overview of the people and events of the Holocaust. Extensive teacher resources and student activities are included, as well as photographs, documents, art, music, movies, literature, and more.
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The German Invasion of Poland

For Students 9th - 10th
September 1, 1939, Germany invaded Poland beginning WWII. View primary sources curated by the Holocaust Museum to better understand the agony of this time period in Poland. Sources include videos, photographs, interviews, diary entries,...
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PBS

Pbs: American Experience: America and the Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
PBS provides an accompanying website to their documentary on America and the Holocaust. Find special features, a timeline, an interactive map that depicts events from 1939 to 1945, primary documents and People and Events.
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Conquest of Poland and the Beginnings of Jewish Persecution

For Students 9th - 10th
With Hitler's conquest of Poland, the Jewish people were subjected to degrading and humiliating laws. Read a summary of the invasion of Poland and view primary sources such as photos, testimonies, video lectures, artifacts, and documents...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Human Spirit in the Shadow of Death

For Students 9th - 10th
In terrible times, the human spirit has a way of enduring and even strengthening. The Jewish people risked their lives in order to continue to practice their faith, educate their children, and document their experiences for future...
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Nobel Media AB

The Nobel Prize: The Nobel Prize in Literature 1980

For Students 9th - 10th
At this site from The Nobel Foundation you can read about Czeslaw Milosz (1911-2004 CE), the Polish author and 1980 Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. This website includes full-texts of Milosz's Nobel Lecture as well as some of...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: The Voice of the Survivors

For Students 9th - 10th
The stories of survivors of the Holocaust told in their own words is the best way to preserve the memories of this horrific event. Yad Vashem has collected these eye-witness testimonials over many years and continues to do so. This site...
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Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center

Yad Vashem: Bearing Witness

For Students 9th - 10th
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...

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