By the end of this section, you will be able to:
Discuss hospice care
Describe the five stages of grief
Define living will and DNR
A detailed biography of "the Hangman" of World War II Nazi Germany.
High-school students interview Holocaust survivors.
A collection of photographs taken by an SS officer, Karl Hocker, who was stationed at the Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. Use the links on the page to go to related articles and the photographs
A description of the Belzec concentration camp in Poland, run by the Nazis between 1941 and 1943.
A description of the concentration camp system at Buchenwald, and the varied types of prisoners who were held there before and during World War II.
Text details the planned methods of moving Holocaust victims from ghettos and labor camps to extermination camps during World War II.
Site created by the US Holocaust Memorial Museum to explain the Final Solution, the Nazi plan to exterminate all Jewish people. Site provides extensive information about the plan and the method by using pictures and written descriptions. Also includes a glossary for difficult words.
Browsable directory of encyclopedia articles on topics related to the Holocaust, with accompanying rich-media material (photos, maps, historical films, audio clips, etc.) available for particular topics. A full complement of articles is available in English; translations in other languages are available for select entries.
Article about the concentration camps established by the Nazis in the area around Jasenovac in Croatia, and their use in eliminating political and religious opponents, as well as Jews shipped in from other places in Eastern Europe.
Article about the concentration camp at Ohrdruf, a subcamp of Buchenwald. Ohrdruf was the first camp to be liberated by the Allied forces, in April 1945.
A description of the Nazi development and use of the extermination camp at Treblinka in Poland during World War II.
This UC Berkeley site extensively covers the death of the dinosaurs. It includes history, theories, invalid hypotheses, and current arguments.
Storyteller Dan Keding sings a ballad about the famous folk hero. In the song, efforts to save the hero's life through the practice of "bleeding"-a common medical procedure in medieval times-are unsuccessful.