Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Stories of Women Who Rescued Jews During the Holocaust
A little over half of the Righteous of the Nations are women. These women put themselves in danger, and often lost their lives, trying to rescue Jews during the Holocaust. Read their personal stories and view pictures of these women of...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Art From the Holocaust
An exhibit in the Yad Vashem museum highlights art made during the Holocaust. Click on each piece of artwork to read background information on the artist. An external link takes you to a PDF explaining how the collection was curated.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Spiritual Resistance During the Holocaust
In an effort to preserve their dignity and culture during the Holocaust, the Jewish people found ways to resist the Nazis. This lesson plan is broken down by resistance methods such as the use of the camera, poetry, letters, and...
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Jews and Sport Before the Holocaust: A Visual Retrospective
This exhibition tells the stories of Jewish athletes and the sports they took part in all over Europe prior to the Holocaust, of which many did not survive.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Hanukkah the Festival of Lights
Even in the midst of the horror of the Holocaust, the Jewish people kept their religious traditions. "Walk" through this online exhibit and view how they celebrated Hanukkah before, during, and after the Holocaust.
Yad Vashem, The World Holocaust Remembrance Center
Yad Vashem: Marking the New Year
Even in the midst of the horror of the Holocaust, the Jewish people kept their religious traditions. "Walk" through this online exhibit and view how they celebrated the New Year before, during, and after the Holocaust. View artifacts...
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: The Holocaust: World Response
Could actions of the Allies have prevented the Holocaust or limited the destruction of six million Jews and five million other innocent civilians?
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: The Holocaust: Holocaust Denial
A reference to those who have denied the Holocaust.
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: The Holocaust:"righteous Among the Nations"
The "Righteous Among the Nations" of the Holocaust are featured on this resource.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: The Aftermath of the Holocaust
An article about plight of people, especially Jewish people, who were displaced by World War II and had no homes to return to, and how the world-wide community did, and did not, aid them in the years immediately following the war.
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
Ushmm: Holocaust Encyclopedia: Women During the Holocaust
The roles of Jewish women and women of other groups targeted by the Nazis is described, but the article also tells of the roles many women played in the various resistance movements during World War II.
PBS
Pbs: Mapping the Holocaust
When Allied forces reached the concentration camps in WWII, they were not prepared for the devastation that they saw. The soldiers filmed what they witnessed and Frontline used the footage in the documentary Memory of the Camps [57:35]...
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Aish Foundation: Understanding the Holocaust
Aish.com is a great resource for information on the Holocaust. The site contains an in-depth overview of the Holocaust, photos, interviews with survivors and relatives of survivors, personal accounts of survival, plus more.
A&E Television
History.com: Amid the Holocaust's Horrors, Many Jews Found Ways to Mark Hanukkah
From carving menorahs on stolen blocks of wood to creating makeshift wicks from scraps of fat and used loose threads, concentration camp inmates devised covert ways to celebrate the holiday. All over Europe Jews found ways to celebrate...
History of American Wars
History of American Wars: Holocaust Timeline: Shoah
An extensive timeline showing the events between 1933 and 1945 that occurred during the progression of the Jewish Holocaust. It begins with several paragraphs describing the nature of the Holocaust.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Introduction to the Holocaust by the United States Holocaust Memorial
A learning module that begins with "Introduction to the Holocaust" by The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF...
US Holocaust Memorial Museum
U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: The Holocaust in Italy
The history of the Holocaust in Italy is generally well known, but to date there has been little systematic analysis of its spatial dimensions. The objective of this case study is to examine the Holocaust in Italy from a geographical...
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: The Holocaust: Non Jewish Victims
Non Jewish victims of the Holocaust.
American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise
Jewish Virtual Library: The Holocaust: Ghettos
Ghettos of the Holocaust are described on the linked pages. Photographs of many of the ghettos are included.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Death Marches in the Holocaust
A learning module that begins with "Death Marches in the Holocaust" by The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF...
CommonLit
Common Lit: Danish Resistance During the Holocaust
A learning module that begins with "Danish Resistance During the Holocaust" by Hans Holmskov Schluter, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be printed as a PDF or assigned...
Read Works
Read Works: The Holocaust
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage explains what the Holocaust was and its impact on people throughout the world. This passage reinforces essential reading comprehension skills. Opportunities for...
University of South Florida
Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust: Rescue and Liberation
This site offers a detailed account of the liberation of the concentration camps by Allied forces and is accompanied by numerous photos, related website links, and video clips.
University of South Florida
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust: The Ghettos
This site offers a timeline of the Jewish condemnation to Ghettos. While learning about the Ghetto experience, click on one of the many links to definitions, sound clips, pictures, or related websites. There is an abundance of detailed...
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