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SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

The Holocaust

Nazi Germany and its collaborators murdered about six million Jews, two in every three in Europe, and also Roma and Sinti people, disabled people and others. It is remembered through survivors’ words, archives and the places where it happened.

Place
Berlin · Warsaw ghetto · Auschwitz-Birkenau · AmsterdamEurope
Laid out as
A theme across timeOne idea followed through the eras it crosses.
Lessons
7 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

  1. IJewish life in Europe before
  2. IINazi laws
  3. IIIKristallnacht
  4. IVGhettos
  5. VThe camps
  6. VIRescue and resistance
  7. VIISurvivors’ testimony

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Anne Frank
  • Primo Levi
  • Irena Sendler
  • Nicholas Winton
  • Settela Steinbach

Objects

  • Anne Frank’s diary
  • Testimony in the Wiener Holocaust Library

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1933 to 1945. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?