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These videos and accompanying lesson plans have been curated by Museum historians and educators for use in middle and high school classrooms to support accurate and effective teaching about the Holocaust.
A look at the introduction of gas chambers at Auschwitz, how the Nazis started using gas vans and then going on to use gas chambers at camps.
Video summary. Dan Snow introduces a report about the gas chambers at Auschwitz. It explains how the first gas chambers were adapted houses where Zyklon B was thrown in through a hole in...
Explore lesson plans and training materials organized by theme to use in your classroom. Online Tools for Learning and Teaching. Videos for Classroom Use. These videos explore the experiences of Holocaust survivors, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's collections, and Holocaust history.
By 1943, four new crematoria, with gas chambers attached, had been built in Auschwitz-Birkenau. An estimated 1.3 million people were deported to Auschwitz, and approximately 1.1 million people were murdered in the Auschwitz gas chambers, including 1 million Jews.
14 mar 2016 · This collection features powerful accounts of the Holocaust, told by survivors, rescuers, and witnesses, selected from USC Shoah Foundation’s Visual History Archive. The videos are divided into three sections: The Nazis in Power: Voices in Europe, The Holocaust, and After the Holocaust.
After they were killed, Sonderkommando prisoners dragged the corpses out of the gas chambers. They cut off the women’s hair and removed all metal dental work and jewelry. Then they burned the corpses in pits, on pyres, or in the crematorium furnaces.
