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Beyond Any Nation’s Universe of Obligation
Learn about the plight of the Polish Jews expelled by the Nazis from their homes in Germany in 1938.
![Thousands of Polish Jews were expelled by Germany and turned away by Poland in the fall of 1938, leaving them trapped and living in unsuitable conditions along the German-Polish border.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_2938_JewsGermanPolishBorderTown_FH229458.jpg?h=4c3b389f&itok=tW5AonZi)
Bystanders at Hartheim Castle
Consider why the residents of Hartheim kept silent about the evidence of mass murder they witnessed in their town throughout World War II.
![Jews wearing Star of David badges in the Lódz ghetto. Established in 1940, the Germans crowded 160,000 Jews from the Polish city, more than a third of its population, into the ghetto.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_1940_JewsInTheLodzGhetto_%20FH229466.jpg?h=afb0b43a&itok=_7RMUlTN)
The First Trial at Nuremberg
Learn about the international tribunal that tried and sentenced German leaders at the end of World War II.
![Julius Streicher. International Military Tribunal (IMT) defendant Julius Streicher, the editor of Der Stürmer, during the Nuremberg trial. In its conviction, the IMT ruled that Streicher knew of the mass killings of Europe’s Jews and that his articles in Der Stürmer calling for the “annihilation of the Jewish race” was a direct incitement to murder and thus constituted a “crime against humanity.”](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/14459-804x1000.jpeg?h=ba18c1ff&itok=7BKg1WB7)
Youth on the Margins
Consider what it was like to grow up as an outsider in Nazi Germany with these firsthand accounts from a Jehovah's Witness and a Jew.
![Hitler Youth groups educated young people according to Nazi principles, and the encouraged comradeship and physical fitness through outdoor activities](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_HitlerYouthHiking_FH229449.jpg?h=827069f2&itok=PbrzWAsf)
Anti-Judaism before the Enlightenment
Deepen your understanding of the history of antisemitism with this overview of the persecution, violence, and restrictions Jews throughout Europe faced during the Middle Ages.
![A contemporary drawing of the Hep! Hep! riots in Frankfurt am Main in 1819. Notice that both men and women participated in the violence.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/Holocaust_2015_HepHepRiots_FH147029.jpg?h=68d52520&itok=QlgzjK49)
Amin Maalouf Histoires d’Identité
Amin Maalouf, écrivain et auteur français, parle du besoin de trouver de nouvelles façons de penser l'identité.
![A student reads a handout in the classroom.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/UK_ClassroomImage_2019_FH2117918.jpg?h=79583b4d&itok=p7P8_T0w)
Bearing Witness to the Nanjing Atrocities
Students confront the enormity of the crimes committed during the Nanjing atrocities by listening to survivor testimony.
![Survivors of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre pose for a photo during a ceremony in Nanjing on July 6, 2013.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/2013_SurvivorsoftheNanjingMassacre_FH131053.jpg?h=eb24755d&itok=rk1PRXzc)
Bullying at School
Learn about some responses to school bullying and reflect on the power students have to make positive changes in their own school communities.
![Diverse hands reaching to sun.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-07/reaching_344329793_o.jpg?h=d614c65a&itok=f-2GB-lE)
L'époque des droits?
Le mouvement anticolonial prenait de l'ampleur dans le monde, et avec la Déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme en 1948 par les Nations unies nouvellement constituées, plusieurs personnes ont tourné leur attention sur les droits des peuples colonisés à l'échelle mondiale.
![Graphic from cover of "Stolen Lives: The Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the Indian Residential Schools."](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/SL_graphic5.png?h=bc3345c8&itok=_uc8CaVR)
The Age of Rights?
The anti-colonial movement was growing stronger around the world, and with the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948 by the newly formed United Nations, many turned their attention to the rights of colonized people globally.
![Graphic from cover of "Stolen Lives: The Indigenous Peoples of Canada and the Indian Residential Schools."](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-05/SL_graphic5.png?h=bc3345c8&itok=_uc8CaVR)
The Nuremberg Laws
Learn about the laws that redefined what it meant to be German in Nazi Germany, and that stripped Jews and others of citizenship.
![In 1933, Jewish businessman Oskar Danker and his girlfriend, a Christian woman, were forced to carry signs discouraging Jewish-German integration. Intimate relationships between “true Germans” and Jews were outlawed by 1935.](/sites/default/files/styles/dynamic_stack_296_1x/public/2022-06/Holocaust_DiscouragingGermanJewishIntegration_FH229441.jpg?h=ad1846e1&itok=dfgQyzmm)