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Teaching about Anne Frank and Holocaust-Era Diaries
Holocaust-era diaries powerfully illuminate individuals' experiences. When examined in historical context, diaries enable personal connection to the past and prompt students to consider how and why the Holocaust happened. Join leading historians and educators to learn how primary sources from the Museum’s extensive digitized collection can engage students in developing critical thinking skills. -
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ghettos and concentration camps
The establishment of ghettos and concentration camps was a key part of the Nazi regime's strategy to persecute and murder Jewish people, Roma/Sinti, and other groups considered "undesirable" by the Nazis. -
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The Night of the Broken Glass
During the pogrom, Nazi mobs destroyed over 1,000 synagogues, looted over 7,000 Jewish-owned businesses before setting fire to them, and murdered over 260 Jews. The attack marked the beginning of the mass persecution and murder of Jewish people by the Nazi regime. -
Auschwitz
It’s some of the most indelible Holocaust imagery: a group of children wearing striped uniforms pulling back their sleeves to reveal tattoos. Their young faces, surrounded by the barbed wire of Auschwitz shortly after their liberation, laid bare the evils of the Holocaust. Tova Friedman was one of these innocents. -
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Auschwitz
It’s some of the most indelible Holocaust imagery: a group of children wearing striped uniforms pulling back their sleeves to reveal tattoos. Their young faces, surrounded by the barbed wire of Auschwitz shortly after their liberation, laid bare the evils of the Holocaust. Tova Friedman was one of these innocents. -
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Children during the Holocaust
1.5 million Jewish children alone were murdered or died at the hands of Nazi officials or their collaborators. -
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Extermination of jew
The first mass murder of Jewish people took place in the concentration camp of Dachau in March 1941. However, the majority of the mass killings occurred between 1942 and 1944 in extermination camps such as Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, and Majdanek.