Research project: the Holocaust
***This subject guide is a resource specifically geared
toward assisting our 6th Grade students and their
teachers with their Holocaust research project.***
How much do YOU know about the Holocaust? Click the green link button below to test your knowledge.
Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
~ George Santayana
We research topics to familiarize ourselves with something we didn't know before - to establish facts and to reach new or different conclusions. If you already have some prior knowledge about the Holocaust, I challenge you to expand on that -- LEARN MORE. Start below:
What is prejudice? The word prejudice means to pre-judge, to make up your mind about someone before you know anything about them. When you first meet someone, what is the first thing you notice? Their hair, the color of their skin, their clothes and the way they speak? We often make instant judgments about each other, which later prove to be untrue. Follow this link to learn more about how the Holocaust was started.
The Holocaust is the name given to the murder of millions of Jews, Gypsies etc. by the Nazis during World War Two. For many years there has been an accepted figure for the number of Jews murdered - six million. As a result of recently found evidence, this figure is now being upgraded and some historians have put the figure as high as 7 to 8 million. Follow
this link to gather more information and to see how many Jews were killed in each country: Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Czech., Holland, Hungary, Romania, and Russia.
this link to gather more information and to see how many Jews were killed in each country: Germany, Poland, Ukraine, Czech., Holland, Hungary, Romania, and Russia.
The Timeline section focuses on the history of the Holocaust, chronicling the years from before 1919 to 1946. Hitler's rise to power was the initiation of a period that wrought great fear and destruction. Millions were forced to live in ghettos, only to be deported later to the concentration camps. The tragic details remained obscure until the liberation of the death camps and the further revelations during the Nuremberg War Trials. Follow this timeline link to see how the Holocaust unfolded.
"A picture is worth a thousand words." Follow this link to view 'Remembering the Holocaust" pictures and of Holocaust concentration camps.
This portion of our site is dedicated to the children of the Holocaust. Each of the children featured are accompanied with a biography and photograph. Follow this link to read about some of the children who lost their lives in this tragic event.
When World War II began in September 1939, there were approximately 1.6 million Jewish children living in areas that the Germans or their allies would occupy. When the war in Europe ended in May 1945, more than 1 million - perhaps as many as 1.5 million - Jewish children were dead. They were systematically targeted as victims in the Nazi calculated program of genocide. Liberation from Nazi tyranny brought no end to the sufferings of the Jewish children who survived - many would have to face the future without any living family members or without knowledge of their Jewish identity. Read more about the hidden children of the Holocaust.
Beginning in March 1942, a wave of mass murder swept across Europe. During the next 11 months 4,500,000 human beings were eliminated. By the end of World War II the toll had risen to approximately 6,000,000 Jews, which included 1,500,000 children, who perished at the hands of the Nazi murderers. When the killing ended those who survived were released from the concentration camps and came out of hiding. Read about some of the survivor stories here.
Students just like you were able to interview some of the survivors from the Holocast. Read, watch and listen to their interviews of the elders who witnessed key historic events of the 20th Century.
Students just like you were able to interview some of the survivors from the Holocast. Read, watch and listen to their interviews of the elders who witnessed key historic events of the 20th Century.
The Holocaust was a dark period in modern history during which millions of people were systematicaly destroyed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi Germany. These people were targeted by the Nazis because of their religion, culture, and/or their lifestyle.
We study the Holocaust to help the world remember the horror and destruction that evil will do when given the chance.
Your task is to learn about the Holocaust by following the webquest below. You will explore the people responsible for the horrors of the Holocaust. Next you will discover the countries that Nazi Germany controlled during this period in history. In those countries you will explore the concentration camps and ghettos that the Nazis built for the Final Solution. The last task for you will be to listen to the tales of the survivors of the Holocaust.
We study the Holocaust to help the world remember the horror and destruction that evil will do when given the chance.
Your task is to learn about the Holocaust by following the webquest below. You will explore the people responsible for the horrors of the Holocaust. Next you will discover the countries that Nazi Germany controlled during this period in history. In those countries you will explore the concentration camps and ghettos that the Nazis built for the Final Solution. The last task for you will be to listen to the tales of the survivors of the Holocaust.
I would love to know your thoughts on the prevention of genocide. Please answer the following short answer question. Show me what you know! :)