Unit 2: World War II

Resisting the Holocaust

1. Rescue from occupied Europe

a. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/rescue 

b. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/rescue-in-denmark 

c. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/kindertransport-1938-40?series=48599 

d. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/jewish-aid-and-rescue?series=48599 

e. https://www.ushmm.org/m/pdfs/20141010-dor-posterset-rescue.pdf

& Look at the maps:

• https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/animated-map/rescue 

• https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/map/escape-routes-from-german-occupied-europe-1942 

• https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/map/rescue-of-danish-jews-fall-1943 

• https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/map/escape-routes-from-norway-1942-1943 

2. Jewish Resistance and Spiritual Resistance

a. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/jewish-resistance 

b. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/jewish-partisans 

c. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/killing-center-revolts?series=21826 

d. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-warsaw-ghetto-uprising 

e. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/spiritual-resistance-in-the-ghettos 

3. Non-Jewish Resistance and German Resistance

a. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/non-jewish-resistance 

b. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/resistance-inside-germany?series=21826 

c. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/reinhard-heydrich-in-depth#assassination-7 

Plot to assassinate Hitler (read at least one)

d. https://www.history.com/news/july-plot-hitler-assassination-attempt-operation-valkyrie 

e. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-july-20-1944-plot-to-assassinate-adolf-hitler 

f. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3908431.stm 

g. http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/20/newsid_3505000/3505014.stm

4. Oskar Schindler

a. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/oskar-schindler 

b. http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/oskar-schindler

c. https://time.com/5470613/schindlers-list-true-story/ 

d. https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/teaching-schindlers-list/life-oskar-schindler 

5. Raoul Wallenberg

a. https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/raoul-wallenberg-and-the-rescue-of-jews-in-budapest 

b. https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/raoul-wallenberg-3 

c. https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30934452 

d. http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37824692

Page for battles: https://sites.google.com/jtowndrakes.org/cunningham/western-world/unit-2-world-war-ii/battles-of-wwii

• • Timelines

    • History Place World War II in Europe timeline

    • PBS.org World War II timeline

    • National World War II Museum timeline

    • Holocaust Memorial Museum

    • National Geographic

  • Newsreel collections: 

    • British Pathe War Archives

    • Universal/Associated Press

    • https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqqqqZrD37h5aphoS_vQtha80Tqq94YTz

  • newsreels by year (mostly British Pathe)

    • 1939: http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=24904

    • 1940: http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=11974

    • 1941: http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=13123

      • 1941 (Universal): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jla8eXc9Ca0

    • 1942: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJVDzmD6Ta4

    • 1943: http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=12486

    • 1944: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LrIerGtJKA

    • 1945: http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=13482

General information about World War II

• BBC History: World War II

• U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum

• History Animated: World War II

The Nuremberg Trials

• TIME Magazine reprint--Nuremberg Trials

• American Experience

• Famous Trials

• US Holocaust Memorial Museum