EIU Teaching with Primary Sources

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

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Primary Source Set

This Primary Source set is merely an sample of resources from the digitized collections at the Library of Congress.

Belsen Horror Camp	This 23-year-old Czech victim of dysentery in Nazi camp at Flossenbrg, Germany, was found by 97th Division of U.S. Army.	Jewish shop windows smashed during Kristallnacht, Berlin	Roll call at a German concentration camp (from Nazi photograph). Two prisoners in the foreground are supporting a comrade, as fainting was frequently an excuse for the guard to "liquidate" useless inmates.
Harte Zeiten; harte Pflichten; harte Herzen	Der ist Schuld am Kriegel	Jugend dient dem Fuhrer-Alle Zehnjahrigen in die JH	Gegen Korruption wahlt Nationalsozialisten, Hitlerbewegung!
Who told you I am not victorious any more?!	Hitler drawing faulty swastikas	The Germans seem to be winning "The Master Race".	Europe is getting hot! We've got to move to the western Hemisphere, 1944
Five starving men in German concentration camp at time of liberation by U.S. Army	Essays and Lectures "German Anti-Semitism" lecture 1954	Division of Germany	Robert Boothby to Winston Churchill January 22, 1932