11th Grade American History

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11th Grade American History
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Mr. Daltons Class
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Subject

• The Holocaust

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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Activities

• Watch the video Liberation of the Camps and
  write a reaction paragraph
• watch a clip from the movie Schlindlers List.
• After viewing an overhead map of the
  concentration/death camps the students will
  discuss Concentration vs. Death Camps.

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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.

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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 AE Undercover Report --
  Einsatgruppen
• Students are news reporters with Allied
  liberation forces, they will write a paragraph
  for their home newspaper describing the camps

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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.

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Websites

• Http//www.scetv.org/HolocaustForum/images/Killcnt
  r.gif
• http//www.friends-partners.org/partners/beyond-th
  e-pale/eng_captions/58-2.html
• http//www.fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/g
  lossary.htm

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Websites

• Http//www.ushmm.org/education/
• http//www.fmv.ulgar.ac.be/schmitz/holocaust.html
• http//www.holocaust-history.org/
• http//www.holocaustforgotten.com

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More Websites

• Http//www.candles-museum.com/survivors
• http//www.holocaust.about.com/
• http//www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/cmu/user/mmbt/www/res
  ources.html
• http//motlc.weisenthal.com.pages
• http//library.yale.edu/ testimonies/homepage.html

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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

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Vocabulary

• Aryan
• Auschwitz
• Concentration Camp
• Dachau
• Death Marches

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Vocabulary

• Euthanasia
• Genocide
• Heinrich Himmler
• Holocaust
• Kristallnacht
• S.S.

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Vocabulary

• Nuremberg Laws
• Treblinka
• Final Solution
• Einsatzgruppen
• Belzec

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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

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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.

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• 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

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• 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)