Video of animated map showing the progression of the Holocaust over the course of World War II and the devastation of the Jewish population of Europe and the Soviet Union. [1:57]

This website gives a short biography of Anne Frank. There are links to maps and photographs.

An explanation of the term "antisemitism" and its particular reference to the Holocaust.

Read about the plight of children, especially Jewish and Roma children, during the Holocaust

Article about the establishment of centers for displaced persons, especially Jews who survived the Holocaust, and about the subsequent emigration of most of those people in the decade following the end of World War II.

A detailed article covering the establishment of the euthanasia program initiated by Adolf Hitler's regime.

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.

A description of the role forced labor played in the Nazi treatment of Jews and Russian POWs during World War II.

A chronology of the development of the idea of "genocide" and the legalities which have developed since the mid 20th century to prosecute perpetrators of genocide around the world.

Article detailing the persecution and annihilation of much of the European Roma population under Nazi orders during World War II, and the continued persecutionof the remaining Roma population in many countries after the war.

A description of life in the Jewish ghettos of Eastern Europe during World War II.

In spite of the great risk, many non-Jewish people across Europe undertook rescue operations, both great and small, to hide or remove people persecuted by the Nazis, especially Jews. This article discusses some of the most notable efforts.

The Holocaust was the state-sponsored, systematic persecution and annihilation of European Jewry by Nazi Germany and its collaborators, between 1933 and 1945. Jews were the primary victims - six million were murdered. Roma (Gypsies), physically and mentally disabled people and Poles were also targeted for destruction or decimation for racial, ethnic, or national reasons. Millions more, including homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses, Soviet prisoners of war, and political dissidents also suffered grievous oppression and death under Nazi tyranny. [6:34]

Data by country of the Jewish population in Europe prior to World War II.

Article describes the various organized and individual resistance movements and actions taken by Jews in Germany and throughout Europe during World War II.

An account of the German occupation of the Polish city of Krakow, and the subsequent Nazi persecution of the Jewish population, especially the destruction of the Krakow Ghetto.

Article outlining the roles of the various Allied armies, including the Russian, American, and British forces, in liberating the Nazi concentration camps in the late months of World War II.

An analysis of the scope of Nazi persecution during World War II, including the Jews, Poles, Roma, and any groups people who did not support the Nazi cause.

An overview of the various resistance and partisan groups who fought against or sabotaged the Nazis throughout Europe during World War II.