by Jonathan Clapsaddle

Interactive Map: Main Nazi Camps and Killing Sites
This new site features an interactive map and list of the main Nazi camps and murder sites during the Holocaust, built through extensive research conducted at the International Institute for Holocaust Research and supported by the Claims Conference. A collection of related items including video testimonies, research papers and photographs are also accessible, allowing students to deepen their research into specific areas within this wide-ranging topic.

New Lesson Plan: ‘Between the Worlds’
A new lesson plan for middle- and high-school students is now available online, based on the CD-ROM “Between the Worlds: Social Circles in the Theresienstadt Ghetto”—a journey into the world of Jewish children in Theresienstadt. “Between the Worlds” documents how Jews endured pain and loss in the ghetto during this difficult period, focusing on the various age groups and sub-cultures in the ghetto, including children, parents, men and women.

Lesson Plan and Activity: Collecting Pages of Testimony
In this hands-on lesson plan, students learn about Yad Vashem’s Pages of Testimony, and prepare to fill them out together with survivors. As the survivor population diminishes daily, this task is particularly urgent, and helps strengthen the connection between students and the last remaining eyewitnesses to the Holocaust.

The author works in the Internet Department at the International School for Holocaust Studies.

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