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Main Nazi Camps and Killing Sites

Between 1933 and 1945, the Nazis established more than 40,000 camps for the imprisonment, forced labor, or mass killing of Jews, Sinti and Roma, Communists, and other so-called “enemies of the state."

Last Updated: September 6, 2016

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History

The Holocaust
Genocide

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Facing History and Ourselves

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Find interview transcripts, historical overviews, and primary source documents about a particular Jewish partisan or country.

Russian partisans, one of them photographer Faye Schulman, gathering together in the forest, Naliboki Forest, Belarus, December 1944. The Molotava Brigade was a partisan group made up mostly of escaped Soviet Army POWs. The woman pictured is Faye Schulman, a Jewish woman who fled into the Naliboki forest with her camera equipment and joined the Molotova Brigade. For two years in the forest she photographed the partisan's activities, worked as medical aid and participated in the partisans raid's.

Unit

Explore the stories of Jewish partisans that stood against Nazi oppression, genocide, and antisemitism during World War II.

Lesson

Students consider the choices and reasoning of individual Germans who stayed quiet or spoke up during the first few years of Nazi rule.

German military recruits swear allegiance to Adolf Hitler.

Unit

Designed for California 10th grade world history courses, this unit guides students through a study of the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide that focuses on choices and human behavior.

Assessment

Students begin to understand and stake out a preliminary position in response to the assessment writing prompt.

Facing History and Ourselves Bullying Summit September 29th 2012 in Los Angeles CA

Assessment

After learning about the Armenian Genocide, students reflect on the writing prompt a second time by adding a historical lense.

Assessment

Students incorporate new evidence from the history of the Weimar era into the position they are developing.

Assessment

Students consider how what they've learned about the rise of the Nazi Party influences their thinking about the essay prompt and practice making inferences.

Assessment

Students review the documents and videos from previous lessons and consider what information supports, expands, or challenges their thinking about the essay.

Assessment

Students reflect on, gather evidence for, and discuss the unit writing prompt in its entirety.

Assessment

Students reflect on the unit as a whole and begin to write a strong thesis statement for their essay.

Collection

Explore resources that meet the California History–Social Science Framework standards.

Four students sit in a circle in conversation. The student in the center speaks with their hands raised.

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