Connect with the USHMM
Chapters I-VII
Chapter I: 1863-1919 Introduction to Eugenics
>
Introductory Video
"The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics" by Edwin Black
Introductory Activities
Historical Antisemitism
Chapter II: (1919-1933): Science as Salvation: Weimar Eugenics
>
Timeline
Video
Photo Gallery, Texts, and Videos
>
"Anti-Jewish Boycott"
"Law for the Prevention of Progeny with Hereditary Diseases”
"Adolf Hitler Issues Comment on the “Jewish Question”
"Nazi Party Platform"
Oral Testimonies: Benno Muller-Hill and other survivors
Oral Testimony: Robert Wagemann
Project-Based Learning Activities
>
Exploring Identity
Chapter III (1933-1939):The Biological State: Nazi Racial Hygiene
>
Timeline
Video
Photo Gallery and Text
>
Euthanasia Centers, Germany
T-4 Program
Exhumations at Hadamar
Mauthausen
Project-Based Learning Activities
Chapter IV (1939-1945): Final Solutions: Murderous Racial Hygiene
>
Timeline
Video
Photo Gallery and Text
>
Final Solution Overview
Dr. Michael A. Grodin
The Hippocratic Oath
Dr. Josef Mengele
Medical Experiments
>
NOVA's Holocaust on Trial: Medical Experiments
Chaim Engel, Survivor Testimony
Oral Testimony: Leo Schneiderman
Project-Based Learning Activities
Part V (1945 and the Nuremberg Trials)
>
Timeline
Video
Photo Gallery and Text
>
"The Doctors Trial: The Medical Case of the Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings"
The Doctors' Trials
Project-Based Learning Activities
Part VI (Post WWII-Present Day)
>
Timeline
Video
>
You Tube Video on NC Eugenics Compensation
Eugenics Victim Testimony
Photo Gallery and Text
>
Part I of "The American Eugenics Movement after WWII" by Kevin Begos
Part II of "The American Eugenics Movement" by Kevin Begos
Part III of "The American Eugenics Movement" by Kevin Begos
Teaching Tolerance: American Gothic
Henrietta Lacks: the Immortal Woman
Project-Based Learning Activities
Part VII (What You Do Matters)
>
"Never Forget"
General Resources
Academic Abstracts and Articles for Teachers
Biology Lesson Plans on Eugenics
Other Helpful Links
Recommended Reading
>
Common Core and Essential Standards
About Us and the Project
Funded by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 2015