Articles

Professional articles and fact pages feature "all-about" information on World War II and the Holocaust.

Anne Frank: Behind the Diary
A Photographic Remembrance
Ruud Van Der , Rian Verhoeven

Packed with photos and detailed maps, this extraordinary book is an important addition to classroom libraries and a must for all readers of Anne Frank's diary, providing a complete documentation of her childhood and the historic events that sent her family into hiding.

Grades 4–6
Paperback
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Daniel's Story
Carol Matas

Based on the exhibit at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, this novel features a character named Daniel, who embodies the experience of millions of children and their families during the Holocaust.

Grades 3–8
Paperback, 144 pages
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My Secret War
The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York, 1941
Mary Pope Osborne

Madeline Beck has a lot to worry about. She's the new kid at school and her father has been suddenly sent to war. Set against the backdrop of World War II, Madeline struggles with adjusting to adolescent life as she worries if she'll ever see her father again. This journal personalizes history by showing your daughter that the concerns of young women haven't changed much through time.

Grades 4–8
Hardcover, 208 pages
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One Eye Laughing, The Other Weeping:
The Diary of Julie Weiss, Vienna, Austria to New York
Barry Denenberg

Julie Weiss's emotional journal speaks of a life of extremes -- as a privileged Viennese child, a Holocaust refugee, and finally a Broadway actress. Finding joy on the stage, Julie dreams at night of her homeland's horrors and the family she'll never see again. The record of her triumph and heartbreak shows the resiliency of the human spirit and its ability to heal.

Grades 4–8
Hardcover, 256 pages
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Snow Treasure
Marie McSwigan

A daring adventure based on a true story about a group of Norwegian children who smuggled nine million dollars in gold past Nazi sentries during World War II. "A story of courage and wits and grim determination." - New York Times

 Grades 2–6
Hardcover, 160 pages
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The Journal of Ben Uchida: Citizen 13559, Mirror Lake Internment Camp, California, 1942
Barry Denenberg

When the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor, Ben Uchida is stripped of his identity, assigned a number, and herded into an internment camp for years. Ben's journal encourages tolerance and shows how family, friends, and even baseball can help the human spirit endure a dark period in American history.

Grades 4–8
Hardcover, 160 pages
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The Journal of Scott Pendleton Collins: A World War II Soldier, Normandy, France, 1944
Walter Dean Myers

Seventeen-year-old Scott Pendleton Collins expects each day to be his last. His moving journal from the battlefield of Normandy immerses the sights, sounds, and smells of war -- where a young man almost forgets what he's fighting for. Penned by a Newbery Award-winning author, this book depicts a boy coming-of-age in one of the world's most tumultuous times.

Grades 4–8
Hardcover, 256 pages
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Scholastic Encyclopedia of the United States at War
June A. English , Thomas D. Jones

A complete, full-color chronicle from the American Revolution through the Gulf War, with timelines, maps, eyewitness accounts, and more.

Grades 4–8
Hardcover, 256 pages
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Number the Stars
Lois Lowry

Ten-year-old Annemarie and her best friend Ellen often think of life before the war. It's now 1943, and their life is filled with school, food shortages, and the Nazi soldiers marching through town. When the Jews are "relocated," Ellen moves in with Annemarie's family and pretends to be one of them, yet her life is still in danger.

Grades 3–6
Hardcover, 256 pages
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Early Sunday Morning
Barry Denenberg

Amber's journal chronicles two months that change her life forever. In late 1941 her family moves to Hawaii, landing in the epicenter of the attack that plunged the United States into World War II. As she watches her world literally explode in flames, Amber demonstrates that in the face of tragedy, kids can find the courage to help and to simply go on.

Grades 4–8
Hardcover, 256 pages
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Stories of the Holocaust

Four Perfect Pebbles • Kindertransport
• Tell No One Who You Are • Torn Thread
• Until We Meet Again

Grades 7–9
Hardcover, 256 pages
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Holocaust Collection

Daniel's Story • Forging Freedom
• Memories of Anne Frank • Snow Treasure
• When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Grades 5–6
Hardcover, 256 pages
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Listen to an expert of Rosie the Riveter sung by the 4 Vagabonds.

Scholastic in a Classroom Pack!
Diary Maker

Encourate students to experience history while they write about their own lives. There are narrated excerpts from three of the most significant diaries ever written on one CD-ROM: Anne Frank, Zlata Filipovic of Sarajevo and Latoya Hunter of the Bronx. The software also has comprehensive diary-making tools to motivate students to create their own multimedia journals. This classroom pack contains two (2) CD-ROMs.

Grades 5–9
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Teaching the Diary of Anne Frank
An In-Depth Resource for Learning About the Holocaust Through the Writings of Anne Frank
Iris Sroka , Susan Moger

This sensitively written, scrupulously researched resource provides the background information and materials you need to teach The Diary of Anne Frank, and place it in the context of the Holocaust. Filled with discussion questions, ideas for journal writing, documents, timelines, poetry , photos, and more, this important book will help you help your students come to understand Anne Frank and the tragedy of the Holocaust.

Grades 5–8
Hardcover, 64 pages
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Hiroshima

A-bomb WWW Museum
Students access photos and information about the atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
http://atomicbombmuseum.org/

Hiroshima Archive
Dozens of photos of the devastation of Hiroshima are on display.
http://www.lclark.edu/~history/HIROSHIMA/

Hiroshima Directory
This directory features a bibliography and historical, artistic, military, and literary links about the city.
http://www.lclark.edu/~history/HIROSHIMA/directory.html

Hiroshima Live Project
The Project offers information about the annual Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony and peace-related information.
http://www.csi.ad.jp/hiroshima-live/index.html

Panoramic Photos of Ground Zero of the Hiroshima Bombing
Students can view photos illustrating the devastating effects on Hiroshima of the atomic bomb blast.
http://titan.iwu.edu/~rwilson/hiroshima/

Peace Forum of Kids' 1000 Paper Cranes Project
This photo album documents a recent peace forum staged by Japanese primar- school students at Sadako's monument in Hiroshima.
http://next1.yasuda-u.ac.jp/
nagatuka/kids1000/97/park/index_e.html

Remembering Nagasaki
This site contains photos and eyewitness transcripts.
http://www.exploratorium.edu/nagasaki/index.html

The Holocaust

Anne Frank Online
This definitive site focuses on Anne Frank and her world-famous diary. It contains excerpts from her diary, a photo scrapbook of her life, and information about a traveling museum exhibit about her. http://www.annefrank.com

An Auschwitz Alphabet
This site provides information about the experience of prisoners at Auschwitz organized alphabetically with topics ranging from Arbeit Macht Frei (Work will make you free) to Zyklon B (poison gas). It includes commentary by the author, a bibliography, and links to other Holocaust sites.
http://www.spectacle.org/695/ausch.html

Cybrary of the Holocaust
Included at this site are images of the Holocaust, survivor accounts, stories of children of survivors, artwork, and other Holocaust-related materials, including a section refuting claims that the Holocaust never happened. CAUTION: Some of the material is too graphic in nature for younger students.
http://remember.org/

The Holocaust Ring
This continually growing site is made up of a list of links contributed by people around the world. Its goal is to contribute to Holocaust understanding, study, research, and dynamics.
http://d.webring.com/hub?sid=&ring=shoah&id=&list

Louisiana Holocaust Survivors
Six Holocaust survivors from Poland are interviewed about their lives before World War II, the changes they experienced as the war neared, and their memories of the Holocaust.
http://www.tulane.edu/~so-inst/laholsur.html

The Nizkor Project
The Nizkor Project takes issue with those who deny the Holocaust ever happened. This site is divided into several sections, such as FAQs, features, Shofar Web Project, and The Holocaust Web Project. They contain documentation as to the reality of the Holocaust and refute the position of the deniers, whose arguments are also shown through Web links.
http://www.nizkor.org/index.html

The Simon Wiesenthal Center
This site provides extensive materials dealing with the Nazi Holocaust as well as current human rights issues. Areas include a biography of Simon Wiesenthal, more than 50 bibliographies of Holocaust resources, audio events, Museum of Tolerance, and biographies of children killed in the Holocaust.
http://www.wiesenthal.com/

Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation
This site explains the mission of the Survivors of the Shoah (Hebrew for "Holocaust") Visual History Foundation, which is to videotape and archive the accounts of as many surviving Holocaust victims as possible to provide a record for the future of this shameful chapter of history.
http://www.vhf.org/

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
This museum is the United State's national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history and serves as this country's memorial to the millions who were murdered. Photos, text, and other resources provide a full exploration of the Holocaust.
http://www.ushmm.org/

Yad Vashem
Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial of the Jewish people in Israel, offers background text, sample testimonies, and pictures pertaining to the events that befell the Jewish population and others in Europe beginning in the 1930s. This site is also available in Hebrew.
http://www.yad-vashem.org.il/

The Home Front

Camp Harmony
This exhibit tells the story of Seattle's Japanese-American community in the spring and summer of 1942 and their four-month sojourn at the Puyallup Assembly Center, known as "Camp Harmony."
http://www.lib.washington.edu/exhibits/harmony/
Exhibit/default.htm

Executive Order 9066: The Internment of 110,000 Japanese Americans
Over 100 photos of this historical time period.
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/aasc/ex9066/index.html

FDR's Pearl Harbor Speech
The text of President Franklin Roosevelt's famous address to Congress the day after Pearl Harbor was bombed.
http://bcn.boulder.co.us/government/national/
speeches/spch2.html

German Prisoners of War
An article on the prisoner-of war-camps in Texas during World War II that were used to house German prisoners.
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/
articles/view/GG/qug1.html

Morse Code
Translate words and phrases into Morse code.
http://www.soton.ac.uk/~scp93ch/morse/index.html

New Yorkers Remember VE-Day
Short oral histories about the momentous event as told by the denizens of New York State.
http://www.newsday.com/extras/lihistory/specfam/fammain.htm

Pearl Harbor Overview Map
A map of Pearl Harbor as it looked on December 7, 1941.
http://my.execpc.com/~dschaaf/routex.html

Pearl Harbor Remembered
Online memorial created to honor the survivors of Pearl Harbor and their families as well as to those who died in December 1941.
http://my.execpc.com/~dschaaf/mainmenu.html

Private Art Primer letters home from World War II
A collection of World War II letters to and from the home front.
http://www.private-art.com/

Rosie the Riveter
The Rosie the Riveter World War II Home Front National Historical Park is the first national monument to celebrate and interpret women's crucial contributions to the World War II Home Front. The memorial is located at the largest and most productive shipyards of World War II, the Kaiser shipyards in Richmond, California. The Rosie the Riveter Trust sponsors this site.
http://www.rosietheriveter.org/

USS Arizona — "That Terrible Day"
Listen to U.S.S. Arizona's bell while you learn all about this famous battleship that served with pride and distinction in the U.S. Navy from 1916 until 1941.
http://www.library.arizona.edu/images/
USS_Arizona/USS_Arizona.shtml

What Did You Do In the War, Grandma?
An oral history of Rhode Island women during World War II, written by students in the Honors English Program at South Kingstown High School.
http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/WWII_Women/

World War II: General

World War II Time Line Starting Page
This online World War II time line begins with one segment for the prewar years to 1938, then covers each year of the war in detail. In addition to student papers, there are also links for photographs, maps, and documents from the University of San Diego History Department collection.
http://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/start.html