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.

Available in Spanish only: from the United States Holocaust Museum this is the "Historias personales" or "personal stories" entry into the Spanish version of the museum's online Holocaust encyclopedia.

Available in Spanish only: From the United States Holocaust Museum this is the "Resistencia espiritual en los ghettos" or "Spiritual Resistance in the Ghettos" entry into the Spanish version of the museum's online Holocaust encyclopedia.

Spanish content: From the United States Holocaust Museum this is the "Mauthausen" entry into the Spanish version of the museum's online Holocaust encyclopedia.

This site from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum explains the Nuremburg Race Laws and how they institutionalized Nazi racial theory. This pertained not only to Jews, but also to the Roma and blacks. Be sure click on the links...

Online museum encyclopedia introduction of the Holocaust. Includes photographs, references for further reading, and links to related materials.

From The United States Holocaust Museum, the heart-wrenching tale of Lola Rein, a Polish girl who hid in a hole from the Nazis for seven months. Examine the dress she wore, her only remembrance from her mother, and access the Lola and...

This article details the Nazi treatment of Soviet prisoners of war in World War II. Though it is not frequently discussed, there were almost as many Soviet prisoners killed by the Nazis as there were Jews.

Article about the Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany during World War II, their attitudes toward the Nazis and the war, and their subsequent treatment by the Nazis.

A detailed article covering the establishment of the euthanasia program initiated by Adolf Hitler's regime.

Article detailing the development and use of concentration camps in pre-World War II Germany to detain political enemies, subversives, and so-called "social deviants."

A description of the forced marches the Nazis used to try to keep concentration camp victims out of the hands of the Allies in the last few months of World War II.

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.

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.

Article about the German takeover of the Polish city of Lodz early in World War II.

An article about the history of the Bergen-Belsen camp complex and the varied roles it played in the Nazi efforts to imprison a wide variety of populations throughout World War II.

A history of the German occupation of Vilna, and the Nazi extermination of the large Jewish population there.

Article about the Dachau concentration camp which housed almost 200,000 prisoners, both political and ethnic, in the period between 1933, when the Nazis took power in Germany, and mid-1945 when the Allies liberated the camps.

A description of the Belzec concentration camp in Poland, run by the Nazis between 1941 and 1943.

This article chronicles both the plight and the resistance of the Jews in the Lithuanian city of Kovno during World War II.

An account of the role the Majdanek concentration camp in Poland played both in providing labor for the Nazi war effort and in the "final solution" the Nazis planned.

A description of the Nazi use of poison gas to eliminate "undesirable" persons, whether because of their physical or mental health, or because of their religious or ethnic dispositions.

Article summarizing the development and use of numerous concentration camps by the Nazis in the early years of World War II. The camps were used to provide forced labor, retain political prisoners, and any populations the Nazis wanted to...

A description of the Nazi concentration camp at Sobibor in Poland, and of the prisoner uprising there.