Aish.com is a great resource for information on the Holocaust. The site contains an in-depth overview of the Holocaust, photos, interviews with survivors and relatives of survivors, personal accounts of survival, plus more.

Use these media-rich resources to analyze the diary as a literary genre and understand the historical context in which Anne Frank wrote her unforgettable testament to hope.

Drawing upon the online archives of the U.S. Holocaust Museum, this lesson helps students to put the events described by Anne Frank into historical perspective, and also serves as a broad overview of the Nazi conquest of Europe during World War II. After surveying the experiences of various countries under Nazi occupation, the lesson ends with activities related specifically to the Netherlands and Anne Frank.

This lesson concentrates on Anne Frank as a writer. After a look at Anne Frank the adolescent, and a consideration of how the experiences of growing up shaped her composition of the Diary, students explore some of the writing techniques Anne invented for herself and practice those techniques with material drawn from their own lives.

The Jewish Virtual Library offers a detailed page explaining all aspects of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration/death camp. Contains pictures, personal accounts, and the history of what happened there.

Students examine what Anne Frank's writing and a video dramatization of her diary reveal about her character and how it changed while she was in hiding.

Students explore the diary as a literary genre, as well as the themes of The Diary of Anne Frank, in this excerpt from Masterpiece's 2010 version of The Diary of Anne Frank. As students analyze a scene in which Anne's father talks about why writing is so important to Anne, they gain a deeper understanding of the historical context in which Anne lived, what motivated Anne to start keeping a diary, her identity as a writer, and how her observations went on to become one of the most widely-read works of nonfiction in the world. This resource is part of the Masterpiece Collection. [1:21]

Students explore the process of adapting a work of literature for the screen in this excerpt from Masterpiece's 2010 adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank. By comparing and contrasting the way in which the film and the book portray Anne's 14th birthday celebration, students gain an understanding of the process filmmakers must go through to bring the book to life. They also explore the symbolism of the gifts Anne receives. This resource is part of the Masterpiece Collection. [1:32]

Students examine how filmmaking techniques-such as music, voice-over narration, and camera cuts-build tension and capture the viewers' hearts and minds in this excerpt from the 2010 Masterpiece version of The Diary of Anne Frank. In this dramatic scene, we watch as the Frank family and other residents of the secret annex meet the fate they have dreaded throughout their two years in hiding: they are discovered by the police. As students explore the music, voice-over narration, and camera cuts in the scene, they also consider the ways in which the filmmakers interpret the impact and message of the diary. This resource is part of the Masterpiece Collection. [1:53]

Table broken down by country showing estimated numbers of Jewish people killed in each area during World War II.

When Allied forces reached the concentration camps in WWII, they were not prepared for the devastation that they saw. The soldiers filmed what they witnessed and Frontline used the footage in the documentary Memory of the Camps [57:35] which is included in this source. Also included is a map of the camps and ghettos throughout Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe.

Facing History & Ourselves uses lessons of history to challenge teachers and their students to stand up to bigotry and hate. Facing History has thousands of research-based resources and professional learning events to support Social Studies and English Language Arts education.

Social injustice occurs every day all over the world. In this lesson, students research a few historical examples of social injustice, including the Holocaust, the Trail of Tears, and Japanese internment.

The response to the Nuremberg Laws by the National Representation of the Jews in Germany, September 24, 1935.

This resource provides a timeline chronology starting on January 30, 1933 and ending November 1, 1946.

The focus on this package is a variety of resources to explore the concept of “history repeats itself”.  For this content package, the resources focus on the Holocaust (WWII), Japanese Internments Camps, other Genocides, past & present, as well as human persecution in the 2000s to today.   The content package includes lesson plans, professional resources, novels, and primary & secondary sources to prepare to teach and learn about the topic, “History Repeats Itself”. This package provides a variety of resources to support understanding of the human experiences of these events, as well as the lasting impact.

The Holocaust is the preeminent example of man's inhumanity to man. In high school, students encounter this topic in ELA and Social Studies classes. It is essentioal that educators access high quality materials to support the teaching of this complex topic. This content package is intended for educators to easily find lessons, eBooks, primary sources, units of study, webquests, interactives, and other resources to supplement the teaching of the Holocaust in grades 9-12. 

This page discusses in detail what happened to the persecuted Romani people during the Holocaust. It also provides links to further content about lives of Roma and Sinti people during this period.

This outstanding site provides worksheets, sites for background information, hands-on activities, webquests, interactive sites for students, lesson plans, and worksheet makers.

Visit this site for a factual and statistical timeline of the Holocaust. The timeline is searchable by year.