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Course, Subject

Global History and Geography, Social Studies, Social Studies, Social Studies (NYS K-12 Framework Common Core)

Web-based Resource

Access this resource at: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en

Spanish Version:
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/sp/

French Version:
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/fr/

Description

Holocaust Encyclopedia weaves photos, narratives, and historical footage into a web presentation on more than 20 Holocaust topics, including anti-Semitism, pogroms, the Third Reich, the "final solution," the camp system, forced labor, mobile killing units, ghettos, the resistance, the U.S. and the Holocaust, World War II, and the liberation of the camps. (Holocaust Memorial Museum)

This site is offered in English, Spanish, and French.

Content Provider

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America’s national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country’s memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust. For more information, please visit http://www.ushmm.org

Related Academic Standards

New York State

SS.10.5.e.1 Students will examine the atrocities against the Armenians, the Ukrainian Holodomor, and the Holocaust.

SS.10.10 HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS: Since the Holocaust, human rights violations have generated worldwide attention and concern. The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights has provided a set of principles to guide efforts to protect threatened groups and has served as a lens by which historical occurrences of oppression can be evaluated.

SS.10.10.a.1 Students will investigate and analyze the historical context of the Holocaust, Nuremberg Trials, and Tokyo Trials and their impact on the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

SS.11.8.c.1 Students will investigate American officials' knowledge of the Holocaust, evaluating the degree to which intervention may have been possible.

RI.9-10.9 Analyze seminal U.S. documents of historical and literary significance (e.g., Washington's Farewell Address, the Gettysburg Address, Roosevelt's Four Freedoms speech, King's "Letter from Birmingham Jail"), including how they address related themes and concepts.

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