US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Rescue
In spite of the great risk, many non-Jewish people across Europe undertook rescue operations, both great and small, to hide or remove people persecuted by the Nazis, especially Jews. This article discusses some of the most notable efforts.
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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Forced Labor
A description of the role forced labor played in the Nazi treatment of Jews and Russian POWs during World War II.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Westerbork
Article about the camp at Westerbork, the Netherlands, originally created by the Dutch to intern Jewish refugees, but later used as a transit camp by the Nazis, a holding place for Jews being sent to other concentration camps.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Drancy
A description of the Nazi development and use of Drancy, a former police barracks in Paris, as a transportation camp for deporting Jews to extermination camps.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Jasenovac
Article about the concentration camps established by the Nazis in the area around Jasenovac in Croatia, and their use in eliminating political and religious opponents, as well as Jews shipped in from other places in Eastern Europe.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Adolf Eichmann: Timeline
Follow a chronology of Adolf Eichmann's life and his participation in the "Final Solution" of the Nazis.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Voyage of the St. Louis
A very informative article about the voyage of the SS St. Louis. Find out about the refugees on the ship, what happened to them, and how their treatment reflected world concern about those fleeing from Nazi persecution.
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Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Jewish Resistance
Article describes the various organized and individual resistance movements and actions taken by Jews in Germany and throughout Europe during World War II.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Kovno
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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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Voyage of the St. Louis
An article about Jews fleeing the Third Reich on the transatlantic liner the St. Louis in 1939.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Hidden Children: Discovered
During the war, the Gestapo tried many means to locate Jews in hiding, even recruiting other Jews as informers. Sometimes hidden Jews were discovered accidentally during a raid.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Courage in Denmark: Resistance to the Nazis in Wwii by Us Holocaust
World War II (WWII), a global conflict that lasted from 1939 to 1945 involved more than 100 million people and over 30 countries. The Allied powers - including the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union - worked together...
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Read Works: The Holocaust Denmark: Resistance From Nazi Germany
[Free Registration/Login Required] An informational text about Denmark and their resistance to deporting Jews to Nazi, Germany. A question sheet is available to help students build skills in reading comprehension.
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The Holocaust: Timeline
Visit this site for a factual and statistical timeline of the Holocaust. The timeline is searchable by year.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
An online exhibit that displays many artifacts and documents relating to the medical experiments done to European Jews by the Nazis.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The November 1938 Pogroms
From the United State Holocaust Memorial Museum, this resource describes the anti-semitic pogroms, or race riots, in Germany on Kristallnacht (the Night of Broken Glass) in November of 1938.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Hidden Children: Hardships
Describes the hardships children faced in trying to hide from the Nazis, whether openly with false identity papers, or in a hiding place. These included hiding their Jewish faith and practices, being victimized by unscrupulous 'rescuers'...
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Story of Raphael Lemkin
An article about Raphael Lemkin, a Polish Jew who emigrated to the U.S. at the beginning of World War II. As a lawyer and scholar, he documented Nazi atrocities and coined the word "genocide."
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: Nazi Concentration Camps
This page has links to detailed pages on all of the concentration, labor, and extermination camps used by Hitler and the Nazis in WWII. These camps were used to round up and exterminate the millions of Jews and other minorities in Europe...
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Do You Remember When?
This online exhibit about is about the experience of being a young Jew in Berlin in the early 1940's. Includes real life stories and images of the personal belongings of real people.
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Hiding Jewish Children During World War Ii: The Psychological Aftermath
An eye-opening article that describes the psychological consequences for Jewish children who were sent to the Netherlands to live in hiding from the Nazis, for their parents, and for the surrogate parents who hid them during the war....
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Ben Austin's Sociology Corner: Chronology of the Holocaust: 1930 1945
Factual chronology of the Holocaust from 1930-1945. Detailed accounts beginning with the National Socialist Party to the liberation of concentration camps.
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: Reinhard Heydrich
A detailed biography of "the Hangman" of World War II Nazi Germany.
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Pbs: Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
Companion website to the documentary about Auschwitz, the infamous World War II concentration camp. Includes biographies, glossary, timelines and historically significant photos.