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A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust

The Internet already hosts a large number of quality sites dealing with the Holocaust and other genocides, but this site, created by a group of graduate students in a Development of Technology-Based Instruction course at the University of South Florida, deserves special attention. The site features an annotated Timeline that traces anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and their repercussions from 1918 to...

http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/
Facing History and Ourselves: Music, Memory, and Resistance during the Holocaust

History teachers in middle and high schools will want to check out these rich lessons plans exploring "how music helped to preserve dignity in the lives of Jews under Nazi rule." Scout Report readers will be familiar with the organization behind these lessons, Facing History and Ourselves (last featured in the 12-11-2020 issue), which is dedicated to shaping compassionate and courageous leaders...

https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/holocaust
Holocaust Era in Croatia: Jasenovac 1941-1945

This new exhibit from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM) focuses on the years following the German invasion of Yugoslavia, when the Ustasa regime founded the Independent State of Croatia and set up concentration camps there. Jasenovac was the largest of the camps, and the USHMM site features artifacts from the Jasenovac Memorial Area Collection. There are three main sections of...

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/jasenovac
Last Expression: Art from Auschwitz

Described as a forum to explore "the roles, functions, meanings, and makings of art in the Nazi concentration camps," this Website posts cataloged images of art work, including drawings, paintings, and photographs, done by prisoners at Auschwitz - Birkenau. In addition to the searchable and browseable collection of hundreds of works of art, the Website offers essays and streaming video lectures...

https://www.blockmuseum.northwestern.edu/view/exhibitions/pa...
Life After the Holocaust: Stories of Holocaust Survivors After The War

Perhaps no event in the 20th century (or in recorded history) has been as well-documented and archived as the Holocaust that took place in Nazi Germany during the late 1930s and 1940s. Many groups and organizations have sought to place some of the materials they have collected online, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is one such organization that should be applauded for their...

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/about-life...
Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945

This new online exhibit from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum offers some valuable insights into the persecution of homosexuals by the National Socialist government under Adolf Hitler. The exhibit begins by recounting the story of Richard Grune, an artist who had trained at the Bauhaus school, who was identified by the Nazis in 1934 and later spent the entirety of World War II in the...

https://www.ushmm.org/information/exhibitions/traveling-exhi...
The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies

Based at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, The Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies "supports scholarship and publications in the field of Holocaust studies, promotes the growth of Holocaust studies at American universities'and initiates programs to ensure the ongoing training of future generations of scholars specializing in the Holocaust." Visitors to their site can learn about...

https://www.ushmm.org/research/about-the-mandel-center
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The Secret Annex Online

The Anne Frank House has crafted this interactive tour of Anne Frank's secret hiding place that is altogether moving, profound, and wonderful. First-time visitors should look over the About the house area for an introduction to this very famous domicile. Next, the Who's Who area provides a multimedia introduction to the eight people living together in the secret annex. Visitors can even Enter the...

https://www.annefrank.org/en/anne-frank/
The Trial Of Adolf Eichmann

The Nizkor Project, one of the largest online repositories of primary documents related to the Holocaust, is in the final stages of converting the Israel State Archives' extensive records of the Adolf Eichmann trial and placing them online. Eichmann, who supervised the implementation of the "Final Solution," escaped to Argentina after the war, where he was secretly apprehended by Israeli agents in...

http://www.nizkor.com/hweb/people/e/eichmann-adolf/transcrip...
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Flight and Rescue

As this online exhibit opens, visitors will hear a prelude played on the piano and a map of Eastern Europe and Russia unfold before their eyes. This is the beginning of the Flight and Rescue exhibit, presented by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. With the use of powerful visual materials, primary documents, interviews, and striking narration, this interactive exhibit tells the story of...

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/flight-and...
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