World History
Here is Rudolf Höss, Kommandant of Auschwitz. His daughter, Brigitte Höss, 80 years old, lives in northern Virginia and has never talked about her father's role in the Holocaust.
In a remarkable story in the Washington Post Magazine section, we learn that "it was Rudolf Höss who designed and built Auschwitz from an old army barracks in Poland to a killing machine capable of murdering 2,000 people an hour."
Now, diagnosed with cancer, Brigitte Höss, begins to talk about the story she has kept secret even from her grand children and closest friends.
This is a fascinating story that might be interesting for students later in the year when we study World War II.
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- Origins Of Earliest Americans: New Skeleton
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World History
Auschwitz Commandant's Daughter Hiding in Northern Virginia
In a remarkable story in the Washington Post Magazine section, we learn that "it was Rudolf Höss who designed and built Auschwitz from an old army barracks in Poland to a killing machine capable of murdering 2,000 people an hour."
Now, diagnosed with cancer, Brigitte Höss, begins to talk about the story she has kept secret even from her grand children and closest friends.
This is a fascinating story that might be interesting for students later in the year when we study World War II.
- Snatched From The Holocaust
The BBC has this touching story about a six year old girl whose life was saved from the Holocaust by a neighbor. The story is Snatched from the Holocaust and it was written by Barbara Govan. The story begins, "Aged just six, Suzanne Rappoport saw both...
- "remember Our Faces"--teaching About The Holocaust.
"Remember Our Faces"--Teaching about the Holocaust. This is an essay which looks at ways the Holocaust can be taught in classrooms. From the site: A Holocaust survivor recently implored social studies teachers to "remember our faces." This becomes...
- George Washington: A Brief Biography
George Washington: A Brief Biography This is another in a string of short presidential biographies I have put online. From the site: George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 in Westmoreland County, Virginia. Here he received little formal education....
- Virtual Tours Of The Auschwitz Death Camps
The Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum has created three online virtual tours of the Auschwitz-I and Auschwitz-II-Birkenau death camps. On these sites the Nazis built the largest of its concentration and extermination centers. Over...
- Origins Of Earliest Americans: New Skeleton
Divers in the Yucatan discovered a 15 year old girl who is really 12 to 13,000 years old. They call her Naia and in this fascinating Washington Post story, they say "her remains may help determine the origins of the earliest Americans and finally...