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= Resources =

Holocaust Overview
1. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Go to online exhibitions in the right column. Choose three online exhibitions to describe. Include the title, a brief description, and a picture. 2. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Click on Students. Read "Learning about the Holocaust". Define Genocide. Find a picture that depicts genocide (not vulgar) then define below. What does studying the history of the Holocaust help one to understand? Add this as part of your description for genocide. If you were going to teach others about the importance of studying the Holocaust, what would you include? This will be one the inside of the cover or on the cover. Click on __The Holocaust: A Learning Site for Students__. Study the timeline. What two time periods are represented? Print out the timeline for your scrapbook. Choose one important event from each time period and describe.

3. Cybrary of the Holocaust

Locate the poem entitled, "A Survivor's Prayer: A Poem". I have a file that you will download for this.

Summarize what the poem is about.

Concentration Camps
1. Auschiwitz-Birkenau Photographs

Choose three images from this camp to print. Each should include a title and a description. 2. Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust

Use photos and descriptions for all of these. What were the first Nazi concentration camps? What was the primary purpose of these camps? Name the five death camps constructed in Poland. Provide small pictures with titles and minor descriptions

3. A Virtual Tour of Auschwitz

Click on Illustrated Tour of Auschwitz. Select Virtual Tour of Auschwitz. Explore the different parts of the journal. Choose three parts of the journal to focus on. Select and print one image from each part selected. Provide title and description for each.

Anti-Semitism and Kristallnacht
1. Kristallnacht

Click on Synagogue. What is a synagogue? Describe how synagogues were affected during the Night of Broken Glass? Print out an image of a synagogue.

2. The History Place - A Holocaust Timeline

Define Kristallnacht. What was this night named? When did it occur? List the events in order. Develop timeline to copy to your book. Yes you will need a pc we can save then I can help you move it to your photo album

3. Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust

Use the map to identify how many cities were targeted of synagogue destruction. Copy the map Name three cities that were targeted on your album.

Ghettos
1. Family Photograph

Print out this image. Create your own caption, naming the family, and describing where they are going and/or what they are doing.

2. The Ghettos: The Synopsis of Abe's Story

Copy this map. Scroll down to the bottom of the page. Click on __Exploring the Kutno Ghetto.__ Copy and Describe the picture. What are the people treated like? Click on __Garfingal and Abe Walking to Krosniewice, Late Fall 1940.__ Copy and Describe how the conditions worsened. What does Abe do? How? Where does he go? Why?

3. Poland Ghetto

Focus on Ghettos in Poland. Define ghetto. Copy any picture you see fit and provide a brief description for your scrap book Locate on map three Polish ghettos. Find a map and Identify the Warsaw Ghetto. Focus on Life in Warsaw Ghetto. Describe the conditions.

Survivor's Stories
1. Southern Institute for Education and Research

Louisiana Holocaust Survivors Choose one of the five survivors to describe. Copy the picture and provide: Identify who they are, where and when they were born, and their experience as a Holocaust survivor.

2. Survivors' Stories: Cybrary

Find Witnesses Check on non-Jewish victims. Find two pictures that depicts the 5 million forgotten. Use 1,2,3 as your captions then proceed to 4.

1. Who are the 5 million forgotten? 2. What occurred on Sept. 1, 1939? 3. Describe how the Nazis took over Poland? 4. Choose one Pole who received Jews from the Holocaust. 5. Give their name and summarize their role in helping Jewish people.

6. Click a Photos - print out and write a description of the photo.

Classification and Terminology
1. Classification - use the link to identify the different types of people in the camps. Copy the chart 2. Develop a chart that identifies the major divisions in the camps a. Jews b. Criminals c. Political Prisoners d. Roma e. Blacks f. Jewish political prisoner g. Jehovah's Witness Criminal 3. Find pictures that would match ten of the terms. terminology Find meaningful pictures to represent each word. Please keep the pictures small one inch by one inch