The Holocaust
The Holocaust is a watershed event in history--a human tragedy on a global scale.

Photo credit: Polish Central State Archive of Film, Photo and Phonographic Documents

The Task

Student Topic Choices

Persecution of the Jews     http://home.clara.net/hetha/Chronology/timelineholocaust.htm
Process of Identifying the Jews   http://members.aol.com/TeacherNet/Holocaust.html#Symbols
The Disenfranchisement of the Jews     http://web.jjay.cuny.edu/~jobrien/reference/ob14.html
Kristallnacht, "Night of the Broken Glass"     Check Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum Site
Concentration Camps     http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/eur72160.htm
Life in the Camps     Check any of the Student Resources!
Camp Designs     http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/aa092099.htm?terms=Majdanek
Final Solution--Extermination     http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/fsol.htm
Joseph Mengele     http://auschwitz.dk/Mengele/id17.htm
The Fates of the Children     http://auschwitz.dk/kulka.htm

Student Resources

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
A Library of the Holocaust, Remember.org
Museum of Tolerance, A Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum
Yad Vashem on the Internet
A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
The History Net
Revisiting the Holocaust

Teacher Lesson Plan

Questions/Comments to
artm@brenham.isd.tenet.edu
November 28, 2001