A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust

Umschlagplatz

Over the entrance rests a tombstone-shaped lintel. In Jewish symbolism a broken tree symbolizes death. Here a forest of broken trees represent the death of an entire community.
Photo credit: Florida Center for Instructional Technology.

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A Teacher's Guide to the Holocaust
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