starter activity

The numbers above are connected to the events of the Holocaust. Can you imagine what they refer to?

6 million

3 months13-15 minutes

38,000 pairs

90 x 90 cms

22-29 kilograms

Why was the Why was the ‘‘HolocaustHolocaust’ allowed ’ allowed

to happen?to happen?To find out why the treatment of To find out why the treatment of

Jews got worse during WWIIJews got worse during WWII

To assess who might have been to To assess who might have been to blameblame

Aims

Note: Holocaust means ‘sacrifice’, Jewish people prefer the term ‘churban’ meaning ‘destruction’

Wannsee, Berlin, 1942Why was the

problem of the Jews more

pressing for the Nazis in 1942?

Steps to Final SolutionSteps to Final Solution

1942, Nazi leaders met at Wannsee, 1942, Nazi leaders met at Wannsee, BerlinBerlin

Planned quickest way to eliminate Planned quickest way to eliminate the remaining 11 million Jewsthe remaining 11 million Jews

Concentration camps would become Concentration camps would become extermination campsextermination camps

6 major camps, including Auschwitz6 major camps, including Auschwitz

Gateway to Auschwitz – ‘Work makes you free’

Previous tacticsPrevious tactics

Boycotts, purges, Boycotts, purges, labour campslabour camps

Nuremberg LawsNuremberg Laws KristallnachtKristallnacht EinsatzgruppenEinsatzgruppen (‘one (‘one

sentence groups’)sentence groups’) GhettoGhetto Mobile gas chambersMobile gas chambers Death campsDeath camps

ProcessProcess

Jews rounded up into ghettosJews rounded up into ghettos Transported in cattle trains to campsTransported in cattle trains to camps Separated into two camps: 15+ healthy sent Separated into two camps: 15+ healthy sent

to left, old, sick and women with children to left, old, sick and women with children sent to rightsent to right

Your taskYour task

Read source 3 in your textbook on Read source 3 in your textbook on p.157 and learn what happened next p.157 and learn what happened next to Jewish prisoners at Belzec death to Jewish prisoners at Belzec death camp.camp.

Who knew?Who knew? 1942, British & 1942, British &

American American governments governments received reports of received reports of concentration concentration campscamps

150 German 150 German companies used companies used Auschwitz prisonersAuschwitz prisoners

1000s of ordinary 1000s of ordinary Germans helped Germans helped with the processwith the process

Your task Your task

Who was most to blame? Your Who was most to blame? Your teacher will give you a list of people teacher will give you a list of people who helped in the process of the who helped in the process of the Final Solution. Arrange the list in Final Solution. Arrange the list in order of responsibility.order of responsibility.

Your taskYour task

Watch the film clip. It contains Watch the film clip. It contains difficult images of the suffering difficult images of the suffering endured by Jewish prisoners. You endured by Jewish prisoners. You may prefer simply to listen to the may prefer simply to listen to the commentary. What does it tell us commentary. What does it tell us about the reaction of Germans and about the reaction of Germans and Allied troops to the news of what Allied troops to the news of what had happened in the death camps?had happened in the death camps?

PlenaryPlenary

How did the Final Solution come How did the Final Solution come about?about?

Who was most to blame?Who was most to blame?

Lessons we must never forget!