Nazi Death Camp Project

The purpose of this project is to gain a better understanding of Nazi Death Camps, with your focus on one.  The Nazis established six Death Camps across Europe: Auschwitz, Belzec, Chelmno, Majdanek, Sobibor, and Treblinka.  In a group, you will choose/be assigned one of them.  You will research and discuss the following:

• Specific location of the camp
• Layout of the camp
• When was it opened and closed?
• Type of people sent here.
• Who were the commandants?
• How/method were people exterminated?
• Medical experiments
• Liberators
• What other things made this camp unique?

Using this information, you will create a physical, not electronic, presentation (tri-fold, model, other approved options) of this camp.  This research you have done should be included in your presentation.

Museum Websites

• Belzec
  • Belzec Historical Museum
• Chelmno
  • Museum of the German Kulmhof Death Camp in Chełmno
• Majdanek
  • Majdanek Museum
• Sobibor
  • Sobibor Museum
• Treblinka
  • Museum of Treblinka I
  • Museum of Treblinka II

Databases

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Reference Article Overview 

Holocaust From: World War II Reference Library 

Specific Articles 

• Belzec
  • A Trench Runs Through It: The New York Times
• Chelmno
  • Chelmno and the Holocaust: CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 
• Majdanek
  • How Poland is rewriting history: New Statesman
  • Female SS Guards and Workaday Violence: The Majdanek Concentration Camp: The Historian
• Sobibor
  • Philip Bialowitz, Death Camp Survivor: The New York Times
• Treblinka
  • Treblinka uprising: Times Literary Supplement