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General Sites

 

The History Place: Scroll down to "Nazi Germany / World War II." The site includes biographies of Nazi leaders, information on Hitler Youth, a photo essay on Auschwitz Today, and a very handy Holocaust Timeline

 

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Introductory material and a terrific “Encyclopedia of the Holocaust” you can search by topic (includes information on "extermination camps," "mosaic of victims," and explanation of terms)

 

The Jewish Virtual Library: The Holocaust: Includes a tremendous amount of information on many topics, such as Concentration Camps, Medical Experiments, The Euthanasia Program, Ghettos, Kristallnacht, and lots more

 

Cybrary of the Holocaust: Good camp histories and virtual tours, as well as links to the heroes and the rescuers of the Holocaust

 

Poland: The Historical Setting: This site is an excerpt from "The Path of the Righteous: Gentile Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust" published in 1993 and provides a great deal of information about what was going on in Poland at that time. There is also a link for Treblinka on the left

 

 

 

People & Places

 

Rescuers: This website will help for individuals on your subject list

 

The Holocaust - Crimes, Heroes and Villains: Large website with lots of articles. Portraits of Oskar Schindler and others. Lots and lots of photos (warning: many are graphic)

 

Righteous Gentiles: Stories of those Gentiles who risked everything to help the Jews

 

Holocaust Survivors: Includes interviews, photographs, and audio

 

Anne Frank Museum: Includes pictures of the house and the hiding place as well as pictures of those who helped Anne and her family. Exhibits too.

 

The Story of Miep Gies: A Scholastic site with the story of Miep Gies as well as a link to an interview she had with students. See also Miep Gies: Outside the Annex and Miep Gies (offers parts of her book Anne Frank Remembered)

 

Concentration Camps: Long list of camps organized alphabetically

 

Death Camps: Information on Sobibor, Treblinka, Belzec, and Majdanek / Lublin; see also for information on Chelmno

 

“Operation Reinhard”: The Extermination Camps of Belzec, Sobibor and Treblinka

 

An Auschwitz Alphabet: Detailed account of life at this infamous camp; see also the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum