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Holocaust Group Creative Writing
In this group writing worksheet, students collaborate with classmates to write a story about the Holocaust using all of the 14 words in the boxes. Students have 25 minutes to complete this activity.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Lublin/majdanek Concentration Camp
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.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Labor and Concentration Camps
Forced labor camps were an integral part of the German war machine, with the goal of exploiting Jewish labor until the very end. Read background information and view primary sources such as photos, testimonies, artifacts, documents, and...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Concentration Camps: 1939 1942
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...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Concentration Camps, 1942 1945
Article details the Nazi need for forced labor and the solution they found in the concentration camps they established. It also mentions the use of prisoners in medical experiments.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Concentration Camps, 1933 1939
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."
Other
Encyclopedia of Ww Ii: Concentration Camps
This site provides a brief overview that examines the purpose and operation of German concentration camps during World War II. Suggestions for further reading are also made available. Uses popups.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps
A learning module that begins with "Liberation of Nazi Concentration Camps" by The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed...
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: Drancy Concentration Camp
Describes what the Drancy concentration/death camp in France was like during WWII.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Liberation of Nazi Camps
Article outlining the roles of the various Allied armies, including the Russian, American, and British forces, in liberating the Nazi concentration camps in the late months of World War II.
History of American Wars
History of American Wars: Concentration Camps
Examine the history behind the idea of concentration camps, one part of Hitler's solution to rid Germany of its "weak and inferior" citizens.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Daily Life in the Camps
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...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center the Nazi Camp System
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...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center Labor and Forced Labor Camps
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...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Mapping the Ss Concentration Camp System
Mapping the SS Concentration Camp System over space and time from 1933 to 1945.
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...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Main Nazi Camps and Killing Sites
This interactive map shows all the concentration camps, extermination camps, and other kill sites during the Holocaust. Click an icon to access a report on each camp. Also included is a background summary of the Final Solution, video...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: The Holocaust Resource Center the Prisoner's World
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...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: The Death Camps
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...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Remaining Ghettos and Camps
As the Soviet army approached Germany, the Nazis began to liquidate the Jewish ghettos and camps. Read a summary of this process, along with viewing photos, artifacts, documents, and art from this time period.
Google Cultural Institute
Google Cultural Institute: Evacuation and Liberation of the Auschwitz Camp
Photographic exhibit details the evacuation and liberation of the Auschwitz camp in January 1945 by the Soviet 100th Rifle Division.
Other
Japanese American National Museum: Dear Miss. Breed: Letters From Camp
Peruse this collection of letters, recordings, and home movies of several Japanese Americans from their internment following the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: Auschwitz Birkenau
The Jewish Virtual Library offers a detailed page explaining all aspects of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration/death camp. Contains pictures, personal accounts, and the history of what happened there.