Mr. Secker

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Mr. Seckers Holocaust Project

• Resources, Images and More

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Topics

• Boycott of Jewish Businesses
• Resistance to Boycott
• The Nuremberg Laws
• Resistance to Nuremberg Laws
• Kristallnacht
• Resistance to Kristallnacht
• Jewish Ghettos
• Resistance to the Ghettos
• Camps
• Resistance in the Camps
• Deportations throughout Europe

• Resistance to Deportation
• The Final Solution
• Resistance to the Final Solution
• Liberation
• Response to Liberation
• Print Resources

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Boycott of Jewish Businesses

• Why did the Nazis become increasingly popular in
  Germany in the 1920s?
• What did Hitler blame the Jews for?
• What were two main goals of the boycott?
• What were some results of the boycott?

• Boycott of Jewish businesses

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Resistance to the Boycott of Jewish shops and
businesses

• Describe the different ways in which Jews in
  Germany responded to the boycott.
• What obstacles did Jews face who decided to leave
  Germany?
• What did Rabbi Stephen S. Wise do in response to
  the boycott? How successful were his efforts?

• Rabbi Stephen S. Wise
• Emmigration

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Nuremberg Laws

• Between 1933 and 1935, what were some of the
  anti-Jewish actions Nazis and their supporters
  took?
• What was the primary goal of the Nuremberg Laws?
• According to the Nuremberg Laws, how were German
  subjects and German citizens different?
• What were some of the restrictions the Nuremberg
  Laws placed on Jews in Germany?

• Anti Jewish Laws
• Photographs

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Resistance to Nuremberg Laws

• What were the main goals of the Reichsvertretung?
• What services did the Committee for Relief and
  Reconstruction provide?
• Why were Jewish Cultural Associations
  established? What purpose did they serve?
• How did the Jewish press contribute to resistance
  to the Nuremberg Laws?

• Jewish Youth Movement
• Youth, Culture, Religion

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Kristallnacht

• What fraction of Jews left Germany by 1938?
• What was Kristallnacht?
• Describe what happened during Kristallnacht.
• Why did Nazi leaders plan Kristallnacht?

• What was Kristallnacht
• An interactive exhibit
• Museum of Tolerance

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Resistance to Kristallnacht

• What Happened to Jews who resisted Kristallnacht?
• What did 78,000 Jews do in response to
  Kristallnacht?
• By 1939, why was it difficult for Jews to leave
  Germany?
• What happened to Jews who tried to leave Germany
  on the ship Saint Louis?

• Leaving Germany
• Refugees
• Voyage of St. Louis
• St. Louis return to Europe
• Fate of the St. Louis passengers

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Jewish Ghettos

• What were ghettos?
• Why did the Nazis put Jews into ghettos?
• Where did the Nazis establish ghettos?
• Describe life in the ghettos.

• Types of Ghettos
• Ghettos
• Warsaw
• Lodz
• Krakow
• Kovno
• Vilna
• Photographs of Lublin
• Lvov
• Bailystok
• Minsk
• Many of these links have Photographs

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Resistance to the Jewish Ghettos

• What were ongoing forms of nonviolent resistance
  in the ghettos?
• Describe what happened during the Warsaw Ghetto
  Uprising.
• What was the result of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising?

• Jewish Resistance
• Warsaw Uprising
• Bialystok
• Jewish Councils
• Treblinka
• Underground in the Ghetto
• Spiritual Resistance
• Theresienstadt
• Writers and Poets in the Ghettos

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Camps

• What different types of camps were established by
  the Nazis?
• Why did Hitler establish camps? When were they
  first established?
• In addition to Jews, what other criminals did
  the Nazis put into camps?
• To what terrors were prisoners subjected?
• Forced Labor camps
• Forced Labor in Depth

• The Camp System
• 1933-1939
• 1939-1942
• 1942-1945
• Nazi Camps
• Hainewalde
• Hainichen
• Film of an early camp routine
• Genocide of the Roma
• Persecution of the Roma
• Jehovahs Witnesses
• Homosexuals
• Blacks
• Poles and other Slavic Peoples

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Resistance in the Camps

• What made resistance in the camps difficult?
• What were some forms of passive resistance?
• How did Mala Zimetbaum become a symbol of courage
  and resistance?
• How did Anna Heilman Resist the Horrors of the
  Auschwitz death camp?

• Women resistance
• Jewish resistance in Ghettos and camps

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Deportations Throughout Europe

• By 1942, why had many Jews who had left Germany
  earlier found themselves facing the same fate as
  those who had stayed behind?
• What happened to Dutch Jews in the Netherlands?
• From what other European countries did the Nazis
  try to take Jews?

• Deportations to and from Warsaw Ghetto
• Netherlands
• Amsterdam
• Norway
• Escape from German Occupied Europe
• Lithuania
• Estonia
• Latvia
• Macedonia
• Greece

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Resistance to Deportation

• What did some individuals do to resist the
  Holocaust?
• What did the governments of Sweden and Denmark do
  to help Jews?
• How did Italy resist Nazi plans for the Jews?
• How did a riot in Berlin successfully resist Nazi
  plans to deport Jews?

• Denmark
• Hidden Children
• Italy

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The Final Solution

• What were the Einstazgruppen? What did they do?
• What was the final solution to the Jewish
  problem
• How was the Holocaust different from other human
  tragedies?

• Einsatzgruppen
• Einsatzgruppen in Soviet Union
• Final solution overview
• Final Solution
• Murderous Racial Hygiene
• Wannsee Conference

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Resistance to the Final Solution

• How could working for the Germans be a form of
  resistance?
• What did Jews who fled ghettos do to survive?
  What difficulties did they face?
• How did some non-Jewish Germans help Jews?
• What was the White Rose in Munich? What happened
  to them?

• Non Jewish resistance
• White Rose
• Oskar Schindler

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Liberation

• What did Hitler do with the Jews as his armies
  were defeated?
• What evidence of the Holocaust did the Allies
  find when they liberated concentration camps?

• Liberation
• Role of the U. S. Army
• Photographs
• Videos
• Liberation in retrospect

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Response to Liberation

• Why do you think surviving the Holocaust is
  considered an act of resistance?
• How were many Jews received when they returned to
  their homes?
• What were Displaced Persons camps? What was
  their function?
• How did the Jewish Brigade help survivors?

• Aftermath
• Displaced Persons
• Administration of Displaced persons
• First Person stories
• Manya Friedman
• Miriam Eschel part 1
• Miriam Eschel after the holocaust
• Aron and Lisa Darman
• Jewish Brigade

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Print Resources

• Bartoletti, Susan Campbell. Hitler Youth
  growing up in Hitlers shadow. New York,
  Scholastic. 2005.
• Bearing Witness stories of the Holocaust. New
  York, Orchard Books. 1995.
• Charny, Israel. Encyclopedia of Genocide, Santa
  Barbara, CA., ABC-CLIO. 1999.
• Hartman, Erich. In the Camps. New York, W.W.
  Norton Co., 1995.
• Leapman, Michael. Witnesses to war. London,
  Penguin Group. 1998.
• Nardo, Don. The Rise of Nazi Germany. San
  Diego, Greenhaven Press. 1998.
• Stewart, Gail B., Hitlers Reich. San Diego,
  Lucent Books. 1994.
• Uschan, Michael V., The Holocaust. Detroit.
  Thompson Gale. 2005.