Hitler's Final Solution extended into the Baltic States with mass deportation and extermination of the Jewish people. Study background information and examine primary sources such as photos, testimonies, archival footage, video lectures,...

Romania had a long history of anti-Semitism and was an ally of the Nazis. Around 400,000 Jews were killed in Romanian-controlled areas during the war. Read a summary on Romania during WWII and view primary sources such as photos,...

The horrors of the extermination camps during the Holocaust are hard to wrap your mind around. The systematic killing of a group of people by gas or hard labor was part of Hitler's final solution. Read background information on these...

Armed uprisings, smuggling Jews, and rescue attempts were all strategies for the Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. Read a summary and view primary sources such as photos, testimonies, video lectures, artifacts, and documents...

Many Jews risked their lives to save others during the Holocaust even giving up their own chance of escape. Read a short summary on Jewish resistance and view primary sources such as photos, testimonies, artifacts, and documents on these...

There were heroes that helped the Jewish people during the Holocaust. These heroes earned the name Righteous. They often put their lives in danger by hiding Jews, providing false papers, and helping Jews escape. Examine the following...

Hitler not only targeted Jews, but he also persecuted Gypsies, homosexuals, and the disabled. These groups were considered socio-racial problems that needed to be exterminated. Read a summary of each of these groups and view primary...

As Hitler moved forward with his plans of conquest, Western European countries were invaded and occupied. This resulted in anti-Semitic laws in countries such as France and the Netherlands. Read background information on these occupied...

With the establishment of the Vichy regime in France and pro-Hitler leaders in Iraq, the persecution of Jews fanned out to North Africa and the Middle East. Peruse background information and examine primary sources such as photos,...

This resource describe the life of Adolf Hitler, including his rise to tyranny and the fall of the German Empire during WWII.

1938 has been deemed "The Fateful Year" because Jewish persecution escalated. Jewish passports were revoked, Kristallnacht occurred, and Jewish property was forcibly taken. Read a summary and view primary sources such as photos,...

How much did they know and when did they know it? Examine the response of the Allied powers to intelligence showing the mass extermination of Jews. Read background information and view primary sources showing that the Allies knew the...

The excitement of liberation was accompanied by anguish for the newly free Jewish people. Many had no home or families in which to return. Examine the following source which provides a summary, photos, videos, testimonies, and art...

This article by Herbert Steinhouse, published in Saturday Night, April 1994, is not only the earliest account we have of Oskar Schindler, but also the only one that contains direct contemporary interviews.

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...

As Hilter conquered countries, his hatred of the Jews spread. In each occupied country, the goal was complete removal of Jews by death or expulsion. Read background information and view primary sources such as photos, video lectures, and...

Despite being cut off from the rest of the world and living in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions, the Jewish people found a way to continue to practice their faith and culture while living in the ghettos. View the following primary...

In 1940, Jews were forced into the Lodz ghetto and effectively cut off from the rest of the world with no food, water, or electricity. Disease and starvation killed many of the Jews living in Lodz. Read a synopsis and view primary...

The Warsaw ghetto was the largest ghetto in Europe. The Jewish people who inhabited the ghetto were cut off from outside world and lived in overcrowded and unsanitary conditions. 80,000 Jewish people died in the Warsaw ghetto. Study a...

3.3 million Jews lived in Poland before the German occupation. At the end of the war, only 380,000 were still alive. Read background information on the deportation of Polish Jews. Examine primary resources such as photos, testimonies,...

The deportation of Jews from Western European countries began in spring 1942 under the leadership of Adolf Eichmann. Read background information on the deportations from individual countries. View primary resources such as photos,...

The deportation of Jews from other European countries began in earnest in the summer of 1941. Read background information on Jews from Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Greece, and Slovakia. View primary resources such as photos, video lectures,...

In May 1944, Jews in Hungary were deported to Auschwitz. In all, 565,000 Jews were murdered. View artifacts, photos, testimony videos, and documents from this horrendous time in history.

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...