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Case Study: Treblinka – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools Train station near the Treblinka extermination camp found in the photo album of the final Treblinka camp commandant, Kurt Franz, c. August-November 1943.

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Treblinka was the second most deadly extermination camp for Jews, behind Auschwitz-Birkenau: only 150 survived the camp.

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Case Study: Treblinka – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools Train station near the Treblinka extermination camp found in the photo album of the final Treblinka camp commandant, Kurt Franz, c. August-November 1943.

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Treblinka was the second most deadly extermination camp for Jews, behind Auschwitz-Birkenau: only 150 survived the camp.

This case study examines conditions there, the prisoner uprising in 1943, and the camp's closure 🔗

Case Study: Treblinka – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools Train station near the Treblinka extermination camp found in the photo album of the final Treblinka camp commandant, Kurt Franz, c. August-November 1943.

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Treblinka was the second most deadly extermination camp for Jews, behind Auschwitz-Birkenau: only 150 survived the camp.

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The Munich Putsch – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools Courtesy of The Wiener Holocaust Library Collections.

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Hitler saluting at a Nuremberg rally in 1923. The Nazi Party used rallies to raise awareness of their party and attacrt new members. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections.

The Nazi Party officers were based at 12 Corneliusstresse, Munich. This photo was taken in 1921. Wiener Holocaust Library Collections.

On the 24 February 1920, the German Workers’ Party changed its name to the National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP), more commonly referred to as the Nazi Party.

The same day Hitler announced the Nazi Party’s 25-point programme.

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Case Study: Treblinka – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools Train station near the Treblinka extermination camp found in the photo album of the final Treblinka camp commandant, Kurt Franz, c. August-November 1943.

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Treblinka was the second most deadly extermination camp for Jews, behind Auschwitz-Birkenau: only 150 survived the camp.

This case study examines conditions there, the prisoner uprising in 1943, and the camp's closure 🔗

Case Study: Treblinka – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools Train station near the Treblinka extermination camp found in the photo album of the final Treblinka camp commandant, Kurt Franz, c. August-November 1943.

A new camp case study via #TheHolocaustExplained

Treblinka was the second most deadly extermination camp for Jews, behind Auschwitz-Birkenau: only 150 survived the camp.

This case study examines conditions there, the prisoner uprising in 1943, and the camp's closure 🔗

Death marches, 1944-1945 – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools The Holocaust took place in the context of the Second World War, which was started by the invasion of Poland in September 1939.  Here, German soldiers hoist the Nazi Flag over Krakow castle in 1939.

Malnourished prisoners were forced to trek hundreds of miles on foot to camps into central Germany. Thousands of people died during the marches. Thousands more froze to death, starved or were shot on the way.

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On 9 January 1942, the first transport of Czech Jews left Theresienstadt for other ghettos in the east.

By the time the ghetto was liberated in May 1945, almost 90,000 Jews had been deported from Theresienstadt.

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Case Study: Łódź Ghetto – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools A postcard sent to the Łódź or ‘Litzmannstadt’ ghetto in July 1942, and addressed to the ‘Ältesten der Jude’, the leaders of the Jewish council.

In February 1940, 160,000 Jews living in Łódź were forced into a four square kilometre area of the city and sealed off from the rest of the city by a barbed wire fence, creating the Łódź ghetto.

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Extermination camps – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools This picture shows the barbed wire double fences at Auschwitz. The Auschwitz complex was a series of camps that included several different types of camps: a concentration camp, an extermination camp,…

The facility contained three gas vans in which victims were murdered by carbon monoxide poisoning. Once dead, the vans were driven to a nearby forest and the victims were buried in mass graves.

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Extermination camps – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools This picture shows the barbed wire double fences at Auschwitz. The Auschwitz complex was a series of camps that included several different types of camps: a concentration camp, an extermination camp,…

The facility contained three gas vans in which victims were murdered by carbon monoxide poisoning. Once dead, the vans were driven to a nearby forest and the victims were buried in mass graves.

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Case Study: Warsaw Ghetto – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools This map shows the boundaries of the Warsaw Ghetto, where 400,000 people were incarcerated. It was published by the Yiddish Scientific Institute in 1944.

The Warsaw ghetto was segregated from the rest of the population by a wall and sealed on 15 November 1940

Jewish policemen guarded the inside of the wall, and Nazi and Polish officers patrolled the outside. Over 400,000 people were imprisoned.

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Following Kristallnacht, antisemitism in Germany intensified further. This shop had 'On holiday in Dachau' painted onto the front, referring to the owners' arrest and deportation to the concentration camp.

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Case Study: Łódź Ghetto – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools A postcard sent to the Łódź or ‘Litzmannstadt’ ghetto in July 1942, and addressed to the ‘Ältesten der Jude’, the leaders of the Jewish council.

In February 1940, 160,000 Jews living in Łódź were forced into a four square kilometre area of the city and sealed off from the rest of the city by a barbed wire fence, creating the Łódź ghetto.

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Kristallnacht – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools These labels translate to say Do not buy from Jews. Whilst their exact provenance is unknown, it is likely that these labels were handed out to encourage the boycott of Jewish shops and businesses.

Antisemitic laws and decrees had been increasing from the time that the Nazis rose to power, with over 400 passed between 1933 and 1938. Kristallnacht marked a dramatic escalation in the Nazi’s treatment of Jews.

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Armed soldiers disembark a tank during the Munich Putsch

On the 8 November 1923, Hitler attempted to pull off a military coup and overthrow the Weimar Republic

📸 Armed soldiers during the Munich Putsch November 1938. Wiener Holocaust Library collections

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Case Study: Berlin-Marzahn Camp for Roma – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools A map showing the locations of the early Nazi concentration camps between 1933 and 1939.

Using unique sources from the Wiener Library's archive, this new educational case study explores the living conditions in the camp and the experiences of Roma imprisoned there.

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Using unique sources from the Wiener Library's archive, this new educational case study explores the living conditions in the camp and the experiences of Roma imprisoned there.

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Case Study: Łódź Ghetto – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools A postcard sent to the Łódź or ‘Litzmannstadt’ ghetto in July 1942, and addressed to the ‘Ältesten der Jude’, the leaders of the Jewish council.

In February 1940, 160,000 Jews living in Łódź were forced into a four square kilometre area of the city and sealed off from the rest of the city by a barbed wire fence, creating the Łódź ghetto.

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What were the ghettos and camps? – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools This map, created by Herbert Froboess and entitled Deutschland 1945, shows some of the camps in Nazi Germany and some of the surrounding occupied countries.

On 8 October 1939 the first ghetto was opened at Piotrków. This was soon followed by the ghetto in Radomsko, and the first major ghetto in Łódź in February 1940

Over the following two years, hundreds of ghettos would be established across Poland

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In the summer of 1938 Hitler demanded the annexation of the Sudetenland, the northern part of Czechoslovakia, into Germany

At this point Hitler was aware that the Allies were desperate to avoid war, and thought it likely that they would appease his demands

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Case Study: Łódź Ghetto – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools A postcard sent to the Łódź or ‘Litzmannstadt’ ghetto in July 1942, and addressed to the ‘Ältesten der Jude’, the leaders of the Jewish council.

In February 1940, 160,000 Jews living in Łódź were forced into a four square kilometre area of the city and sealed off from the rest of the city by a barbed wire fence, creating the Łódź ghetto.

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The Holocaust Explained - Resistance, Responses, Collaboration Internment is the act of imprisoning a person or a group of people without charge or trial. Internment usually occurs for political or military reasons. During the Second World War, the British government interned several different groups of people, including German, Austrian and Italian nationals.

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Educational Resources – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools This section features educational resources on different topics related to Nazism and the Holocaust. Each resource draws upon original primary sources from The Wiener Holocaust Library’s archive. It…

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📷 A photograph from our collections showing a newspaper seller carrying a placard announcing the war

#OnThisDay in 1939 Britain and France declared war on Germany

📷 A photograph from our collections showing a newspaper seller carrying a placard announcing the war

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Stalingrad – The Holocaust Explained: Designed for schools On 3 September 1939, Britain and France declared war on Germany. This speech by Neville Chamberlain, the British Prime Minister, was broadcast on the radio that day, informing the British people of…

On the 23 August 1942, the Germans launched an offensive to seize Stalingrad in south-west Russia. The battle was one of the largest and most brutal in history.

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A black and white photograph of German troops running through streets during the battle of Stalingrad

Following the invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941, fighting on the eastern front was continuous. The Germans, who had been close to capturing the capital of Moscow in late 1941, were pushed back over 150 miles to west to the town of Rzhev...

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