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"Proving Oneself" in the East
Examine how Nazi Germany's army targeted both the Polish army and the people of Poland as it waged war.
![A crowd of women and children, some with Stars of David patches on their clothing.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Ch09_Image02.jpg?h=991b0af6&itok=WRPl5J8e)
A Family Responds to Kristallnacht
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Learn about a family who assisted their Jewish neighbors after Kristallnacht, and the consequences they faced for this decision to help.
![Pedestrians in front of the demolished businesses of Jewish residents on Potsdamer St., Berlin. November 10, 1938.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1938_PedestriansFrontDestroyedJewishBusinesses_FH223827.jpg?h=603532df&itok=ov-1rXgn)
A Family Responds to Kristallnacht (en español)
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In Spanish, learn about a family who assisted their Jewish neighbors after Kristallnacht, and the consequences they faced for this decision to help.
![Pedestrians in front of the demolished businesses of Jewish residents on Potsdamer St., Berlin. November 10, 1938.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1938_PedestriansFrontDestroyedJewishBusinesses_FH223827.jpg?h=603532df&itok=ov-1rXgn)
Réponse d’une famille à la Nuit de Cristal
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Découvrez une famille qui a aidé ses voisins juifs après la Nuit de Cristal, et les conséquences qu’elle a subies pour cette décision d’aide.
![Pedestrians in front of the demolished businesses of Jewish residents on Potsdamer St., Berlin. November 10, 1938.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1938_PedestriansFrontDestroyedJewishBusinesses_FH223827.jpg?h=603532df&itok=ov-1rXgn)
A Report on the Murder of Jews
Learn about the memo that urged President Roosevelt to step up US efforts to rescue Jews from the Nazis, and led him to establish the War Refugee Board.
![This illustration by Bedrich Fritta, a prisoner at Terezín, depicts the “beautification” of the ghetto-camp undertaken by the SS before the Red Cross visit in 1944.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_2016_FacadesfortheInternationalCommission_FH229472.jpg?h=6834cfb5&itok=pYLQ0-gr)
Reserve Police Battalion 101
Investigate perpetrator behavior with historian Christopher Browning’s study of the men of a police unit that killed Jews during World War II.
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Reserve Police Battalion 101 (en español)
Investigate perpetrator behavior with historian Christopher Browning’s study of the men of a police unit that killed Jews during World War II. This resource is in Spanish.
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Seizing Property
Learn about Nazi Germany’s system of collecting, cataloging, and redistributing the possessions of prisoners in ghettos and camps.
![This illustration by Bedrich Fritta, a prisoner at Terezín, depicts the “beautification” of the ghetto-camp undertaken by the SS before the Red Cross visit in 1944.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_2016_FacadesfortheInternationalCommission_FH229472.jpg?h=6834cfb5&itok=pYLQ0-gr)
Speaking Out “In the Face of Murder”
Read a secretly-published 1942 pamphlet entitled “Protest" that condemned the deportation and murder of Jews.
![Hans Scholl, Sophie Scholl, and Christoph Probst in June 1942.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_2016_WhiteRoseResistanceGroup_FH229473.jpg?h=dfc3751c&itok=BjXT-amv)
The "Special Trains"
Consider the role of bureaucrats in the Nazi regime with this interview with a man who managed the trains to Auschwitz and Treblinka.
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Survival in Hiding
Gain insight into the experiences of Jews in hiding during the Holocaust by reading entries from the diary of teenager Otto Wolf.
![Jews living at a children's home in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France, with their director, Juliette Usach, 1941. The people of Le Chambon and surrounding villages hid nearly 5,000 people fleeing Nazi occupation.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1941_LaGuespyChildrensHome_FH229476.jpg?h=fbf7a813&itok=5bwT7e6v)