Post on 24-Dec-2015
Objectives:
• To promote awareness of the events, causes, and impact of the holocaust on European culture.
• The students will analyze the holocaust and its political, emotional, and humanitarian impact on the 20th century.
• The students will define ten terms of the holocaust
Objectives (continued)
• The students will connect the genocide of the holocaust to current genocide in the Balkans, Albania, Africa, and other genocide from current history.
• The students will trace the five major events leading to the internment of German “undesirables” and concentration and work camps
More Objectives:
• The students will write a personal reaction paper to the video of the holocaust.
• The students will list four personal rights denied the Jewish people during the rule of the Third Reich.
• The students will develop an understanding of the ramifications of prejudice, racism, and stereotyping in any society.
Even more objectives:
• Given a map of Eastern Europe, the students will locate the areas from which the holocaust victims came
• the students will describe their reactions to scenes form the video “Liberation of the Camps”
Activities:
• Watch the video “Liberation of the Camps” and write a reaction paragraph
• watch a clip from the movie Schlindler’s List.
• After viewing an overhead map of the concentration/death camps the students will discuss Concentration vs. Death Camps.
Activities (continued)
• After viewing an overhead chart of the Jewish population, the students will discuss how so many could not escape the injustice that they encountered.
• The students will create a timeline of the systematic dehumanization practiced by the Third Reich.
Even more activities:
• Given a map of Eastern Europe, the students will locate the areas from which the holocaust victims came.
• Watch the video form A&E Undercover Report -- Einsatgruppen
• Students are news reporters with Allied liberation forces, they will write a paragraph for their home newspaper describing the camps
The last of the activities:
• The students will discuss the differences between the holocaust and current actions in Kosovo by Serbian and NATO forces.
• The students will describe the cultural/racial groups targeted by the Nazis as “undesirable” and explain why these groups were targeted.
Websites:
• Http://www.scetv.org/HolocaustForum/images/Killcntr.gif
• http://www.friends-partners.org/partners/beyond-the-pale/eng_captions/58-2.html
• http://www.fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/glossary.htm
Websites:
• Http://www.ushmm.org/education/
• http://www.fmv.ulgar.ac.be/schmitz/holocaust.html
• http://www.holocaust-history.org/
• http://www.holocaustforgotten.com
More Websites:
• Http://www.candles-museum.com/survivors
• http://www.holocaust.about.com/
• http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/cmu/user/mmbt/www/resources.html
• http://motlc.weisenthal.com.pages
• http://library.yale.edu/ testimonies/homepage.html
Timeline:
• The events of the Holocaust occurred in two main phases: 1933-1939 and 1939-1945
• 1933 -- Hitler becomes chancellor- boycotts/Aryan Laws/book burnings
• 1935 -- Nuremberg Laws
• 1939 -- Invasion of Poland (Jews must wear Star of David) Ghettos formed
Important information
• In 1933 approximately 9 million Jews lived in the 21 countries of Europe that would be occupied by Germany during the war.
• By 1945 2 out of every 3 European Jews had been killed
More Information:
• Although Jews were the primary victims, up to one half million Gypsies and at least 250,000 mentally or physically disabled persons were also victims of genocide.
• Nazis saw these people as a serious biological threat to the purity of the German (Aryan) Race”, what they called the “master race.”
• The methods of murder were the same in all the killing centers, which were operated by the S. S.
• the victims arrived by freight cars and passenger trains, mostly from ghettos and camps in occupied Poland.
• On arrival , men an women were seperated and forced to undress and turn over their valuables
• They were then taken to gas chambers that were disguised as showers and either carbon monoxide or Zyklon B was used to asphyxiate them.
• Resistance movements existed in all camps, but was usually put down quickly.
• In May 1945, Nazi Germany collapsed, the S.S. guards fled,and the camps ceased to exist as concentration camps and turned into displaced persons camps (DP camps)