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Teaching the Holocaust and other Genocides
 
Created in collaboration with the Holocaust & Human Rights Center, the NYS Education Department, and the NYS Archives Partnership Trust.

Holocaust Resources by Time Period

This section contains the case studies, readings, and learning activities related to events leading up to the Holocaust and the Holocaust itself and covers the time periods from pre-1933 through present day. The timeline button to the right gives an overview of World War II and the Holocaust.

Germany after the Peace Treaty 1919 Before 1933:
Historical
Beginnings
Antisemitism
Jewish Life in Europe
Hitler's Antisemitism
Rise of Nazism






 
Shoes 1942-1945:
Genocide
Auschwitz Resistance
Holocaust by Bullets
Vel d'Hiv Roundup
Wannsee Conference
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Anti-Jewish Technique 1933-1939:
Indoctrination and Discrimination
Boycott of Jewish Businesses
Reichstag Fire
Book Burnings
Athletes and the 1936 Olympics
Education and Propaganda
Kristallnacht
Nuremburg Laws

Protestant Churches
Evian Conference

 
Survivors in Allach 1945-Present:
Liberation and Beyond
Liberators
Displaced Persons Camps
The Nuremberg Trials
Personal Testimonies

 

 

Girl on Westerbork Transport 1939-1942:
Persecution
and Segregation
Ghettos
Asocials
Differently Abled
Jehovah's Witnesses
LGBTQ+
​​​​​​​Euthanasia
Roma and Sinti