Grade 8 - The Holocaust
Please note that this Pathfinder is no longer actively maintained due to curriculum changes. It still does have links to some useful and informative sites. Use them to remember and honor the enormous gravity of this very horrible time. Shalom.
General Resources
Pathfinder Keywords
Online Resources
Yellow Star/Star of
David
racism
antisemitism
Pink triangle
Kristallnacht (Crystal)
Night of Broken Glass
deportation
Third Reich
Nuremberg Trials,
war crimes, crimes
against humanity
Adolf Eichmann
Simon Wiesenthal
final solution
Nazi
gas chambers
Slavs
Aryan race
Yiddish
ghettos
Joseph
Goebbels
Elie Wiesel
Oskar Schindler
Bergen-Belsen
Auschwitz-Birkenau
Jasenovac
Dachau
Sephardic
Nuremberg laws
non-aryan
Judenfrei/
Judenrein
ethnic cleansing
genocide
Hebrew
denial
crimes against humanity
Heinrich Himmler
Raoul Wallenberg
Chelmno
Warsaw
Treblinka
Sobibor
Sho'ah
Juden/Jew
Semite
Ashkenazi
mischling/
mixed blood
zyklon-B
Schutzstaffel
SS
pogroms
propaganda
Roma/
Gypsies
Anne Frank
Adolf Hitler
liberation
Ravensbruck
Majdanek
Yam Hashoah
Yam Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) - Corresponds with the 27th day of Nisan in the Hebrew calendar and marks the anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising.
Future Remembrance Days:
2018, Thursday, April 12th
2019, Thursday, May 2nd
2020, Tuesday, April 21st
http://www.ushmm.org/remember/days-of-remembrance/about-days-of-remembrance/remembrance-day-calendar. Web. 29 May 2014
Camps: slave labor/death/extermination/ concentration
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