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The holocaust is the term used to refer to the period from 1933 to 1945, before and during World War II, when Adolph Hitler and the Nazis systematically persecuted and murdered nearly six million Jews. More than one third of the world's Jewish people, as well as another five million non-Jews throughout Europe, were killed during this period. This genocide was what the Nazis referred to as the "Final Solution".

Sample some of the following activities to learn more about the holocaust.

Places To Go

The following are places to go (some real and some virtual) to find out about the holocaust.

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Virtually visit the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Its website contains a variety of resources designed for use by teachers and students.

Auschwitz Alphabet
Concentration camps stand as a silent reminder of the horror of the Holocaust. Today, the remains of some of the concentration camps have been turned into museums and memorials. This site about Auschwitz has information about the camp from its survivors.

Museum of Tolerance
Visit this online museum and experience its virtual exhibits such as the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943. The site contains a multimedia learning center and teacher resources that include a glossary, timeline, bibliographies, 36 questions and answers about the Holocaust, and curricular resources.

Nuremberg Trials
Virtually travel to Nuremberg, Germany. After the war, Nuremberg was the seat of the international tribunal for war crimes.

The Forgotten Camps
The names of some of the most horrific Nazi concentration camps are well known: Dachau, Buchenwald, Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belsen. From this site, learn about some of the lesser known camps. According to this site, the Nazis government established over 15,000 camps--many of them small and in operation for only a few months.

The Warsaw Ghetto
Travel back in time to the Warsaw Ghetto. The word ghetto refers to a section of a city where members of any racial group are segregated. During World War II the Nazis set up ghettos in many towns in eastern Europe from where Jewish families were kept captive until they could be transported to concentration camps for liquidation. The Warsaw ghetto was the most famous of the Jewish ghettos.

The Price Family Holocaust Memorial
The exhibition informs and teaches; the garden inspires and provides space for contemplation. The exhibition is presented on six panels that provide historical information on the rise of Nazism, its impact and consequences, liberation form its tyranny and the aftermath of its destruction. One of the six panels is dedicated to the story of John Price and other Salt Lake City residents whose lives were forever changed by these events.

Anne Frank Online 
Become reacquainted with Anne Frank. She was born on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt, Germany. She and her mother, father, and sister plus four others spent 25 months in an annex of rooms above her father's office. After being discovered by the Nazis and sent to a concentration camp, Anne died of typhus in March of 1945 at Bergen-Belsen. She was 15 years old. Her sister, Margot, died in February of 1945, also of typhus. She was 19 years old. Anne's father, Otto, was the only one of the 8 people in the hidden annex who survived the Holocaust. Anne's diary, saved during the war by one of the family’s helpers, Miep Gies, was first published in 1947. Today, her diary has been translated into 55 languages and is one of the most widely read books in the world.

Holocaust Survivors
Through audio files, meet survivors of the Holocaust and listen to their stories.

The Jewish Student Online Resource Center: Oskar Schindler
Oskar Schindler was not necessarily an exemplary man in his early years. Yet, later he would spend his personal fortune and work tirelessly to save over 1200 Jews who worked in his ammunition factory. Read his story.

The Jewish Student Online Resource Center: Raoul Wallenberg
Meet Raoul Wallenberg. He was a Swedish diplomat and businessman working in Budapest. He helped save approximately 100,000 Hungarian Jewish individuals from Nazi extermination by issuing Swedish passports to about 20,000 of them and sheltering others in houses he bought or rented.

Simon Wiesenthal
Meet Simon Wiesenthal. A total of eighty-nine members of both his wife's and his families perished in the holocaust. He has devoted his life to gathering and preparing evidence on Nazi atrocities.

Holocaust Heroes
Holocaust Heroes is a recently launched site devoted to honoring the brave men and women who risked their lives to rescue and shelter Jewish refugees fleeing the Nazi reign of terror.

Cybrary of the Holocaust 
Become involved with the Legacy Forum at this Cybrary. It's a place for teachers to exchange lesson plans, share new ideas, and help students learn about the Holocaust. The URL of this site is www.remember.org. Its goal is to preserve powerful memories about the Holocaust.

The History Place : Holocaust Timeline
Beginning in 1933, learn about Hitler's rise in German politics, about the war years in Europe, and about the Nazi war crime trails.

Double Murder
Learn how Jewish individuals and families were further victimized by having their property, businesses, and personal possessions and wealth taken away from them. The Nazi government passed special laws, decrees, and regulations to strip the Jews of their social, housing, and economic rights, as a preliminary step towards their systematic expulsion and extermination.

Visit your school or public library and check out Passage to Freedom : The Sugihara Story by Ken Mochizuki. It is the true story of Chiune Sugihara. He saved the lives of 10,000 Jewish people while he was serving as a Japanese diplomat in Lithuania in 1940. Going against the explicit orders of his government, he sat night after night hand-writing exit visas for people trying to escape from the Nazis. This is a 32-page, beautifully illustrated book that won the 1998-1999 Utah Informational Book Award.

Yad Vashem
Learn about a group of people called Righteous Among the Nations. These men and women risked their lives to save the lives of Jews during World War II.

Jewish Terminology
Learn Jewish terms from this long glossary of Jewish words and phrases. Shoah is the Hebrew word for holocaust. This same website has a good explanation of many Jewish festivals, fast days, and memorial days.

The Jewish Student Online Resource Center
Find links to 30+ concentration camps or topics relating to them.

Polish History Index
Scroll down the page to the section on "Jews of Poland". It has links the history of Jews in Poland, Jewish pogroms, information about the Warsaw Ghetto, etc.

March of the Living
Read about Auschwitz, Majdanek, Schindler's factory, and more.

The Nizkor Project
Find out about Treblinka. It was a Nazi concentration camp in Poland, near Warsaw. Read the accounts of survivors of this camp. It is estimated that 700,000 to over 1,000,000 people died there. This site also has information about other death camps, about the Nuremberg trials, and about some of the key figures in the Nazi government.

About.Com - Holocaust
Find links to information about Adolph Hitler and other Nazi officials, death camps, allied liberation of the camps, and several dozen more topics relating to the holocaust. 

Lesson Plans/Webquests

• Devil's Arithmetic Webquest
• Night Webquest
• Anne Frank and the Children of the Holocaust Webquest
• The Diary of Anne Frank Webquest
• Holocaust Webquest
• Dynamic Duo Text Talks: Examining the Content of Internet Sites
• Anne Frank: One of Hundreds of Thousands
• Anne Frank: Writer
• Holocaust and Resistance
• I Will Survive!

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