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The Holocaust Explained

The Holocaust Explained includes hundreds of pages of content based on a wide variety of source material in the form of videos, images and text. It is managed by The Wiener Holocaust Library. The Library is the oldest archive of material on the Nazi era and the Holocaust in the world. It is Britain’s national Holocaust archive.

The Holocaust

Hall of Names - Yad Vashem, Holocaust Memorial, Jerusalem.

Hall of Names - Yad Vashem, Holocaust Memorial, Jerusalem

Complicity

The Jedwabne pogrom was a massacre of Polish Jews in the town of Jedwabne, German-occupied Poland, on 10 July 1941. About 40 non-Jewish Poles carried out the crime. This image is the memorial marker.

The Jedwabne pogrom was a massacre of Polish Jews in the town of Jedwabne, German-occupied Poland, on 10 July 1941. About 40 non-Jewish Poles carried out the crime. This image is the memorial marker.

Human Rights

Wall of Remembrance at the USHMM

Wall of Remembrance at the USHMM

International Response

Accused perpetrators at the Nuremberg Trials.

Accused perpetrators at the Nuremberg Trials.

Propaganda

Examples of Nazi Propaganda from the 1930s.

Examples of Nazi Propaganda from the 1930s.

Remembrance

A Holocaust Remembrance Candle

A Holocaust Remembrance Candle

Resistance

Memorial at the Mila Street bunker for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Memorial at the Mila Street bunker for the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.

Survival

Child survivors of Auschwitz, wearing adult-size prisoner jackets, stand behind a barbed wire fence.

Child survivors of Auschwitz, wearing adult-size prisoner jackets, stand behind a barbed wire fence.

About this Resource:

Type(s) of Resources: 
  • Classroom Resources
  • Curriculum Guides
  • Lesson Plans
  • Museums
  • Primary Source(s): 
  • First Person Accounts
  • Government Documents
  • Interviews
  • Letters
  • Photographs
  • Grade Level(s): 
  • 9-12
  • Audience(s): 
  • Teacher and Student
  • Discipline(s): 
  • Social Studies