Resources

Resources 

• Holocaust Encyclopedia: Available in 15 languages, the encyclopedia includes historical photographs and film footage, personal stories and eyewitness testimony, artifacts, and music to tell the story of the Holocaust.
• Timeline: A chronology of key events from World War I through the Holocaust and its aftermath
• For Educators: Resources and guidelines for teaching about the Holocaust, as well as information about professional development opportunities
• Lesson Plan: the Path to Nazi Genocide (PDF): Organized around the 38-minute documentary, The Path to Nazi Genocide, these materials and discussion questions provide students with an introduction to the Nazi rise to power and the Holocaust. 
• Lesson Plan: Connecting the Timeline Activity to The Path to Nazi Genocide (PDF): This lesson the impact of state-sponsored antisemitism and the intersections of World War II and the Holocaust using The Path to Nazi Genocide and the Timeline Activity.
• Viewing Guide and Answer Key (PDF): Questions for students to answer while watching The Path to Nazi Genocide.

Additional Reading

Nazi Racial Ideology

• Victims of the Nazi Era: Nazi Racial Ideology
• Nazi Propaganda
• Racism
• Antisemitism

Nazi Camps

• Nazi Camps
• SS and the Camp System
• Deportations to Killing Centers
• Liberation of Nazi Camps
• Liberation Animated Map

Resistance

• Jewish Resistance
• German Resistance to Hitler
• Armed Jewish Resistance: Partisans
• Spiritual Resistance in the Ghettos
• Resistance Animated Map

Rescue

• Rescue
• Jewish Aid and Rescue
• Escape from German-Occupied Europe
• Rescue Animated Map

American Response

• The United States and the Holocaust
• United States Policy and Its Impact on European Jews

Postwar

• The Aftermath of the Holocaust
• Displaced Persons
• War Crimes Trials