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AHEC staff is currently working from our new location on Highland Avenue, with teacher and community programs being hosted on-site. Stay tuned for announcements for our opening to the general public once our new state-of-the-art exhibit is completed.

Section: The Ghettos (general)

USHMM Encyclopedia of the Camps & Ghettos, Vol. III: Camps and Ghettos Under European Regimes Aligned with Nazi Germany

[Warsaw] Graphic Novel About Marke Edleman, Polin Museum/Warsaw

[Warsaw] Timeline of Events of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Polin Museum

VIDEO: Everyday Life in the Ghettos (8:36), Yad Vashem

VIDEO: Women in Resistance-Fierce Females, The Couriers (1:03:04), Yad Vashem

LESSON: Ghettos, Eternal Echoes

ONLINE EXHIBIT: “And You Shall Tell Your Children, “Marking the Holiday of Passover During the War, Yad Vashem

The Ghetto by Benjamin Ravid, Tablet Magazine, March 26, 2019

The Hidden History of Holocaust Money, Santi Elijah Holley, February 2019

[Warsaw] The BBC Broadcast About the Situation of Jews in Poland, Jewish Historical Institute

USHMM Encyclopedia of the Camps & Ghettos, Vol. II-Part B: Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe

USHMM Encyclopedia of the Camps & Ghettos, Vol. II-Part A: Ghettos in German-Occupied Eastern Europe

USHMM Encyclopedia of the Camps & Ghettos, Vol. I-Part B: Early Camps, Youth Camps, and Concentration Camps and Subcamps under the SS-Business Administration Main Office (WVHA)

USHMM Encyclopedia of the Camps & Ghettos, Vol. I-Part A: Early Camps, Youth Camps, and Concentration Camps and Subcamps under the SS-Business Administration Main Office (WVHA)

TIMELINE MAP: Major Ghettos of Eastern Europe, Montreal Holocaust Museum

The Kashariyot (Couriers), Sydney Jewish Museum

Resistance in the Ghettos, Yad Vashem

Writers and Poets in the Ghettos, USHMM

[Warsaw] SURVIVOR TESTIMONY: Vladka (Fagele) Peltel Meed (2:09), USHMM

LESSON: Mutual Assistance Within the Ghetto Walls, Grades 7-9, Yad Vashem

INTERACTIVE WEBSITE: Children in the Ghetto, Yad Vashem

Life in the Ghettos, YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

Daily Life in the Ghettos, Yad Vashem

SURVIVOR TESTIMONY: Gerda Weissman Klein (1:07), USHMM

Life in the Ghettos, USHMM

Judenräte and Other Representative Bodies, YIVO Encyclopedia of Jews in Eastern Europe

SURVIVOR TESTIMONY: Tomasz (Toivi) Blatt (1:44), USHMM

SURVIVOR TESTIMONY: Bella Jakubowicz Tovey (2:21), USHMM

VIDEO: Adam Czerniakow, Chairman of the Jewish Council in Warsaw (:47), USHMM

Jewish Councils (Judenraete), USHMM

The Jewish Councils and the Issue of Leadership, Yad Vashem

SURVIVOR TESTIMONY: Erika Eckstut (7:09), USHMM

SURVIVOR TESTIMONIES: Ghettos and Deportation, British Library

“Holocaust Numismatics,” by Joel J. Forman, Museum of Tolerance

MAP: Major Ghettos in Occupied Europe 1939-1944, USHMM

List of Camps & Ghettos, Voices of the Holocaust

The Ghettoization Process, Yad Vashem

Ghettos in Poland, USHMM

Types of Ghettos, USHMM

Ghettos, Jewish Virtual Library

SURVIVOR TESTIMONY: Blanka Rothschild (1:47), USHMM

SURVIVOR TESTIMONY: Charlene Schiff (1:08), USHMM

Ghettos, USHMM

VIDEO: The Ghettos (16:19), Yad Vashem, Holocaust Education Video Toolbox

MAP: Jewish Ghettos in Eastern Europe, Facing History and Ourselves

SURVIVOR TESTIMONY: Moshe Shamir, Forced March to the Ghetto (3:35), Facing History and Ourselves

READING: What Did Jews in the Ghettos Know?, Facing History and Ourselves

READING: The Jewish Ghettos: Separated from the World, Facing History and Ourselves

READING: The Jewish Councils, Facing History and Ourselves

LESSON: Confronting the Suffering Caused by the Nazis, Facing History and Ourselves

Ghettos: A Tool of Nazi Racial Policy, The Holocaust Explained