Extensive site created by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to explain the people involved with the Nazi concentration/death camps. Learn about who was targeted, and how those who led the camps were ultimately punished. Site provides...

A chronology of the development of the idea of "genocide" and the legalities which have developed since the mid 20th century to prosecute perpetrators of genocide around the world.

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.

An overview of the rise of the Third Reich in Germany prior to World War II.

CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...

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.

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

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

A description of the use of concentration camp prisoners for medical experimentation by the Nazis during World War II.

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

A description of the Nazi development and use of the extermination camp at Treblinka in Poland during World War II.

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.

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....

Follow a chronology of Adolf Eichmann's life and his participation in the "Final Solution" of the Nazis.

The Nazi government had many "racial enemies" foremost being the Jews. In this exhibit, The United States Holocaust Museum takes a look at one of the other groups targeted for persecution, homosexuals. Read the fascinating and tragic...

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

Article about the Nazis' systematic use of propaganda as a way of controlling the ideas of the German people prior to, and throughout World War II. Propaganda was primarily created against Jews, Communists, and any groups which were not...

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.

Article about the concentration camp at Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald. Ohrdruf was the first camp to be liberated by the Allied forces, in April 1945.

The home page for the Wallenberg Foundation offers biographical information on Wallenberg as well as other Holocaust saviors.

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.

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

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.

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.