World History
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 1-million people (men, women, and children) were killed there.
Clicking on any one of the tours takes you to a panoramic bird's-eye view of the site today. You can then pan left-right, move up-down, and zoom in-out as you "tour" the site. A short, very helpful guide explains what happened at each site, along with links to additional very-accessible background information.
T/H to @AuschwitzMuseum for this link.
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World History
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 1-million people (men, women, and children) were killed there.
Clicking on any one of the tours takes you to a panoramic bird's-eye view of the site today. You can then pan left-right, move up-down, and zoom in-out as you "tour" the site. A short, very helpful guide explains what happened at each site, along with links to additional very-accessible background information.
T/H to @AuschwitzMuseum for this link.
- 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...
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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...
- Virtual Sistine Chapel
There is nothing like seeing the real thing, but putting this virtual tour on a LCD can make the Sistine Chapel seem amazing. You can also let your students use it on their tablets and laptops. There are an abundance of virtual tours out...
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This Open Culture site has a terrific panoramic virtual tour of the Sistine Chapel. The tour takes a minute or so to load but once loaded you can move around any way you want. You can zoom in on the paintings including those on the ceiling. My thanks...