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In this lesson, you learn about the mobile killing squads, the Nazi extermination camps, and the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.” Below you will find additional information on the material you study in this lesson.

You read an excerpt from Elie Wiesel’s famous book, Night.
For more information about Elie Wiesel, click here. To read excerpts from a speech by Elie Wiesel, click here.

You also meet Itka Zygmuntowicz. Learn about the fate of some of Itka's family members by clicking on the pages of testimony identified with .

In this lesson, you study a painting by Zinovii Tolkatchev. For more information about this artist and his drawings after the liberation of extermination camps in Eastern Europe, click here.

You examine a number of photographs taken at Auschwitz-Birkenau in May 1944. For more information about this photo collection and the album from where these photographs were taken, click here.

In this lesson, you meet Judith Becker. Learn about Judith's experiences in the extermination camps by reading the testimonies below:
   Judith Becker talks about arriving at Majdanek, click here.
   Judith Becker talks about surviving the gas chamber, click here.
   Judith Becker talks about prohibitions in Auschwitz-Birkenau, click here.
   Judith Becker talks about survival in Plaszow, click here.
   Judith Becker talks about being tattooed in Auschwitz-Birkenau, click here.
   Judith Becker talks about obtaining shoes during a Death March, click here.

More about the "Final Solution" is available by clicking the following links:
   Extermination camps
   Auschwitz-Birkenau
   Belzec
   Chelmno
   Majdanek
   Sobibor
   Treblinka
   Resistance in the camps
   Culture, religion and education in the camps
   Community and teamwork in the camps
   The fate of children in the camps
   Nazi camps
   Concentration camps
   Bergen-Belsen
   Buchenwald
   Dachau
   Drancy
   Gross-Rosen
   Mauthausen
   Ravensbrueck
   Stutthof
   Sachsenhausen
   Westerbork
 

Lithuania, 1941, Transport of Jews to Their Deaths Next to the Seventh Fort
Bochnia, Poland, An Execution by a German Police Firing Squad
Lubny, Ukraine, October 1941, A Jewish Woman Sitting with Her Children Before Their Execution
Berlin, The Mansion in Which the Wannsee Conference Took Place in 1942
Siedlce, Poland, Deportation - Women and Children Boarding Train Cars
Czechoslovakia, Jews Carrying Their Belongings at the Time of Their Deportation
Greece, Deportation of Jews from Northern Greece to a Concentration Camp in Poland
Romania, German Soldiers Deporting Jews
Deportation of Amsterdam Jews
A Woman and Child Boarding a Deportation Train, Thrace, Greece
 Jewish Children Walking Single-File in the Street Before Their Deportation to Treblinka, Warsaw, Poland
A Blueprint of the Treblinka Extermination Camp
Treblinka, Poland, Smoke Rising from the Burning of Bodies in the Camp, 1943
Treblinka, Poland, Railway Station
Treblinka, Poland, Prisoners Undergoing Inspection by a Doctor, Near a Barrack
Treblinka, Poland, An Execution
Belzec, Poland, SS Guards
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, June 26, 1944, An Aerial Photograph of Camps I-II
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, May 27, 1944, Jews Standing on the Platform After Alighting from a Train
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, Women and Children Deemed Unfit for Work on Their Way to Gas Chamber 4
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, May 27, 1944, A Selection on the Platform
Auschwitz-Birkenau, Poland, Jews That Were Not Able to Work, Waiting Before Their Execution in the Grove

Documents

Extract from Written Evidence of Rudolf Hoess, Commander of the Auschwitz Extermination Camp
The Revolt at the Sobibor Extermination Camp
Order by Himmler on July 19, 1942, for the Completion of the "Final Solution" in the Generalgovernment
Extract from the Commissar's Order for "Operation Barbarossa," June 6, 1941
Extract from Guidelines by Heydrich for Higher SS and Police Leaders in the Occupied Territories of the Soviet Union, July 2, 1941
Extracts from a Report by Einsatzgruppe A in the Baltic Countries, 1941
Evidence of Jewish Escapees from the Ninth Fort in Kovno on the Burning of the Bodies
From a Speech by Himmler Before Senior SS Officers in Poznan, October 4, 1943
Hitler Bans Public Reference to the "Final Solution of the Jewish Question" July 11, 1943
 

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