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Read Works

Read Works: The Holocaust

For Teachers 4th - 6th
[Free Registration/Login Required] This informational text passage shares basic facts about the Holocaust. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces essential reading skills and strategies and establishes scaffolding...
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: 70 Stories of Auschwitz

For Students 9th - 10th
On the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, 70 Holocaust survivors provide oral accounts of their experiences in the Nazi extermination camp.
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Google Cultural Institute

Google Cultural Institute: Anne Frank

For Students 9th - 10th
Engaging site offers a pictorial essay recounting the story of the life of Holocaust victims Anne Frank and her family.
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Virginia History Series

Virginia History Series: Virginia State History Wwii Era (1940 1948) [Pdf]

For Students 6th - 8th
WWII awakened a massive development in Virginia from manufacturing to naval bases. Follow the course of the war through pictures, maps, charts and political cartoons. Visualize life in America and abroad during the war.
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University of South Florida

Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust: Destruction of Synagogues on Kristallnacht

For Students 9th - 10th
Contains a map which shows the synagogues which were destroyed on Kristallnacht, Night of Broken Glass.
Online Course
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Mit: Open Course Ware: Nazi Germany and the Holocaust

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Enhance lessons focused on Nazism in Germany, the rise and fall, by utilizing the resources suggested.
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: Jews Disbelieving Reports of Extermination

For Students 9th - 10th
Essay describing how many Jewish people in Germany did not initially believe reports of Jewish extermination due to Nazi control of the press.
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TES Global

Blendspace: Wwii/holocaust Additional Resources

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module with thirty-three links to videos, websites, texts, and slideshows about the Holocaust.
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American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise

Jewish Virtual Library: The Holocaust

For Students 9th - 10th
The Holocaust (also called Ha-Shoah in Hebrew) refers to the period from January 30, 1933 - when Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany - to May 8, 1945, when the war in Europe officially ended. During this time, Jews in Europe were...
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A&E Television

History.com: After Wwii, Survivors of Nazi Horrors Found Community in Displaced Persons Camps

For Students 9th - 10th
Though the legacy of World War II Nazi death camps looms over Europe, a lesser-known camp network arose after the war with a diametrically opposed vision: to give traumatized populations a new lease on life. Established by the victorious...
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University of Michigan

University of Michigan: Eastern European Study Seminar: Chelmno

For Students 9th - 10th
A large colletion of photos of the current state of the Chelmno death camp in Poland and the memorials built there to remember the people who were exterminated there during World War II.
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Curated OER

Image From Churchill: The Gathering Storm

For Students 9th - 10th
Website encompasses every aspect of World War II with particular emphasis on British roles and viewpoints. Resources include a range of audio, visual, and interactive media. Content coverage highlights include the war at sea, the air...
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Curated OER

Image From Blitzkrieg

For Students 9th - 10th
Website encompasses every aspect of World War II with particular emphasis on British roles and viewpoints. Resources include a range of audio, visual, and interactive media. Content coverage highlights include the war at sea, the air...
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Curated OER

Image From Voices of Dunkirk

For Students 9th - 10th
Website encompasses every aspect of World War II with particular emphasis on British roles and viewpoints. Resources include a range of audio, visual, and interactive media. Content coverage highlights include the war at sea, the air...
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Curated OER

Image From Hitler and 'Lebensraum' in the East

For Students 9th - 10th
Website encompasses every aspect of World War II with particular emphasis on British roles and viewpoints. Resources include a range of audio, visual, and interactive media. Content coverage highlights include the war at sea, the air...
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Curated OER

Image From Pearl Harbor: A Rude Awakening

For Students 9th - 10th
Website encompasses every aspect of World War II with particular emphasis on British roles and viewpoints. Resources include a range of audio, visual, and interactive media. Content coverage highlights include the war at sea, the air...
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Curated OER

Image From the 'D Day Dodgers'

For Students 9th - 10th
Website encompasses every aspect of World War II with particular emphasis on British roles and viewpoints. Resources include a range of audio, visual, and interactive media. Content coverage highlights include the war at sea, the air...
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Curated OER

Image From D Day: Beachhead

For Students 9th - 10th
Website encompasses every aspect of World War II with particular emphasis on British roles and viewpoints. Resources include a range of audio, visual, and interactive media. Content coverage highlights include the war at sea, the air...
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Curated OER

Image From Voices of D Day

For Students 9th - 10th
Website encompasses every aspect of World War II with particular emphasis on British roles and viewpoints. Resources include a range of audio, visual, and interactive media. Content coverage highlights include the war at sea, the air...
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Curated OER

D Day

For Students 9th - 10th
Website encompasses every aspect of World War II with particular emphasis on British roles and viewpoints. Resources include a range of audio, visual, and interactive media. Content coverage highlights include the war at sea, the air...
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US Holocaust Memorial Museum

U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Anchluss, March 1938

For Students 9th - 10th
A map showing the expansion of Germany into Austria in 1938, which resulted in the Anschluss, the unification of Germany and Austria.
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Other

Master of Death: Reinhard Heydrich

For Students 9th - 10th
This site provides information about the Nazi leader, Reinhard Heydrich, including a number of pictures of Heydrich and victims of the Holocaust.
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CommonLit

Common Lit: Anti Jewish Legislation in Prewar Germany

For Students 9th - 10th
A learning module that begins with "Anti-Jewish Legislation in Prewar Germany" by The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. The text can be...
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The History Place

The History Place: Auschwitz Today

For Students 9th - 10th
The History Place provides a virtual slide show of photos taken from a walking tour of the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp.