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...

From the larger PBS site, America and the Holocaust. This essay describes the atrocities of Kristallnacht, November 9, 1938, across Germany. Find out what precipitated the violence against Jews all across Germany, and discover how the...

This site has a wealth of information for teaching about the Holocaust, including support for teachers who are new to this and may be uncomfortable. There are lesson plans, online workshops, teaching materials, online exhibits,...

Teaching a topic as emotional as the Holocaust requires different pedagogical techniques. One way to humanize the Holocaust is through poetry. This lesson centers around the poem "Refugee Blues" that was written a year before the war....

Photographs are an excellent way to teach about the horrors of the Holocaust. Using the information on this site, teachers can effectively plan lessons around historic photographs. Included is a video on how to teach using photos from...

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...

Jewish women were said to have brought strength to a place that had no strength during the Holocaust. They were leaders in their families, in the resistance, and in their faith. Read the stories these woman have to tell on this site.

A heart-touching site featuring poetry, special tributes, women of valor, fragments of memories, among other wonderful contributions from/about women in the Holocaust. Also includes related links.

What lessons have we learned from the Holocaust in order to stop genocide before it happens? Students need to be aware of the atrocities of the Holocaust in order to stop the spread of anti-Semitism in today's world. This lesson offers...

Learners will learn about the life of children and teenagers before and during the Holocaust by reading excerpts from their diaries. In the end, these children perished in the concentration camps. Read entries about their everyday life...

Music brought comfort and unity to the Jewish people during the Holocaust. The same songs later helped document this time period. Listen to medleys of these songs in this online exhibit.

What does it mean to be a child? Students will examine what they believe about the lives of children and compare it the lives of children who grew up during the Holocaust. Materials include quotes from children, letters, diaries,...

Teachers during the Holocaust endured watching children disappear from their classrooms. Instead of turning a blind eye to the atrocities around them, many put their lives on the line to rescue these Jewish children. Read biographical...

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...

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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]...

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.

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.