Education and the Holocaust

Educational resources for students and teachers.

  • Killer Vans

    Return to the Perpetrators | Return to the Witnesses Killer Vans Letter to SS-Obersturmbannführer Walter Rauff Just, Willy. “Letter to SS-Obersturmbannführer Walter Rauff, June 5, 1942.” in: Nazism: A History in Documents and Eye Witness Accounts, 191-1945, vol. 2, document 913RE: Technical alterations to the special vehicles already in operation and those in production. Since…

  • Perpetrators

    Return to the Witnesses | The Cybrary of theHolocaust Perpetrators Per-pe-trat-or: To do, perform, or commit (a crime, etc.) From the Latinperpetratus, to carry through. Literally, per-thoroughly + patrare-to accomplish. Letters Letters on Sterilization Letters on Euthanasia Killer Vans Nazi Letters on Execution of Jews Niemoller Poem Speeches A “Page of Glory” Speech by Frank…

  • Letters on Euthanasia

    Return to the Perpetrators | Return to the Witnesses Letters on Euthanasia Letter from chief of institution for feeble-minded in Stetten to Reich Minister of justice Dr. Frank, September 6 1940[ToWC, Vol. I, p. 854] Dear Reich Minister, The measure being taken at present with mental patients of all kinds have caused a complete lack…

  • Nazi Letters on Execution of Jews

    Return to the Perpetrators | Return to the Witnesses Nazi Letters on Execution of Jews Letter: Execution of Jews 15.November.1941Reichskommissar for OstlandIIa 4SecretTo: Reich Minister for the Occupied Eastern TerritoriesRE: Execution of Jews . . .Will you please inform me whether your inquiry of 31.October should be interpreted as a directive to liquidate all the…