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• Library of Congress Online Resources for Educators (pdf)
• Abraham Lincoln
• Art of War:
  WWI and WWII Posters
• Cartoon Analysis
• Childhood Lost:Child Labor During Industrial Revolution
• Coles County: Taught with Primary Sources
• Corp of Discovery:
  Revealing the American West
• Teaching the Holocaust with Primary Sources
• Illinois: Taught with Primary Sources
• Presidential Campaigns: Packaging the Presidents
• Underground Railroad:
  A Path to Freedom
• Verse and Chorus
• WWII
• Top Topics

Special Projects

• Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum Tools 
• Classroom Activities
• Constant Motion:
  The Job of Railway Post Office Clerks
• Constitution Day
• Library of Congress Site Update "Cheat Sheet" (pdf)
• Lincoln Assassination CSI Activity
• Patriotic Songs
• • September 11
  • Teaching with Lincoln
  • Veterans Day

Professional Development

• Update-Summer Institute
• TPS EIU Jump-Start
• TPS in Action
  (onsite workshop series)
• Customized Teaching with Primary Sources Institutes

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• EIUTPS Google Search Tool
• National TPS Site
• Library of Congress
• loc.gov Teacher PageAbraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum

Teaching the Holocaust with Primary Sources

Introduction: Nuremberg Race Laws | Kristallnacht | Ghettos
Concentration Camps: Dachau | Bergen-Belsen | Auschwitz
Righteous Among the Nations: Gies | Schindler | Winton | Grueninger

Primary Source and Analysis Tools | Library of Congress Resources 
 Primary Source Sets | PDF Version

Ghettos

To separate the Jewish community from the non-Jewish the German government established ghettos. On October 8, 1939, the first Jewish ghettos were created in the Lodz district of Poland.⁶ The Germans established more than 1000 ghettos in Poland and the Soviet Union alone, which were small city areas enclosed by either a wall or fencing.⁷ Jews were forced to leave their homes and most of their possessions behind and what they left was sold to German citizens. Thousands of Jews lived in cramped, squalor conditions. Over 400,000 Jews lived in the 1.3 square mile of the Warsaw ghetto.⁷ In Budapest, about 63,000 Jews lived in a .01 square mile area.⁷ Overcrowded areas with no sanitation and little food led to disease.  

Citations:

7. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Holocaust Encyclopedia,
   Ghettos, Accessed 8.3.12