Audience

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Audience

• 5th and 6th graders
• Middle class community
• Most students dont have much prior knowledge
  about the Holocaust
• This is an introductory presentation to the
  Holocaust

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Environment

• The whole class will be in the computer lab
• Individually, each student will go through the
  presentation at his or her own computer with
  headphones on.

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Objectives
Students will have ten minutes to take a short
quiz by himself/herself to show that they have
learned the material by getting eight out of ten
questions correct.
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People of the
Holocaust
Kayla Loveless
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Did you know?

• Six million Jews were killed
• Five million other people were killed
• Many people resisted the Nazis and risked their
  own lives in the process

Click here if you want to learn more!
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Main Menu

• Victims

Resisters
Liberators
Click on the names to learn more!
Quiz
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Victims

• Jews
• Political Prisoners
• Jehovahs Witnesses
• Homosexuals
• Gypsies

In the concentration camps every person had to
wear a colored triangle assigned by the Nazis to
specify what group they belonged to.
Click on the triangles to learn more!
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Quiz
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Jews

• Anti-Semitism (opposition to and discrimination
  against Jews) began in the 1800s
• Nazis boycotted Jewish businesses and excluded
  Jews from certain professions

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Victims
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• The Nuremberg Laws created very detailed Nazi
  definitions of who was Jewish
• Deprived Jews of their rights as citizens
• Jews were banned from cinemas, theaters, swimming
  pools, and resorts

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Victims
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Political Prisoners

• People who resisted the Nazi regime
• Communists
• Socialists
• Members of trade unions
• Dachau- main concentration camp for them

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Victims
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Jehovahs Witnesses

• Members of a restorationist religious movement
• Banned by national law in 1935
• Arrested and sent to concentration camps
• Freed from camps if they signed documents
  renouncing their religious beliefs.
• 2,500 to 5,000 died in concentration camps

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Victims
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Homosexuals

• In 1933 a state policy of persecution against
  homosexuals began in Germany
• Publications by and about homosexuals were
  prohibited and burned
• A criminal code relating to homosexuality was
  amended and made harsher

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Victims
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• German police raided gay clubs and made arrests
• 5,000-15,000 were sent to concentration camps
• At the camps they were mistreated and tormented
  by other inmates

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Gypsies

• Certain ethnic minorities and travelers
• Deprived of Civil Rights
• In 1936, a Central Office to Combat the Gypsy
  Nuisance opened in Munich
• By 1938, Gypsies were being deported to
  concentration camps
• Hundreds of thousands died in the camps

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Victims
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Resisters

• Armed Resistance
• Unarmed Resistance

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Armed Resistance

• Joseph Stalin established an underground movement
  in occupied territories to fight the enemy.

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Resisters
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• Partisans interfered with enemy communication
• Sabotaged transportation links
• Cut telephone, telegraph, and electrical lines
• Destroyed power stations

A train that was sabotaged by French resistance
fighters.
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Resisters
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Armed Resistance
If you would like to hear a personal story of a
woman who use armed resistance
click here
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Resisters
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Unarmed Resistance

• Food was smuggled into the ghettos to help people
  stay alive.
• Jews worked slowly or destructively in labor
  factories
• Started fires
• Purposely damaged equipment

Children smuggling food into the ghettos
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Resisters
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Unarmed Resistance
The White Rose was a resistance group in Nazi
Germany, consisting of several students and a
teacher from the University of Munich. Many were
arrested and executed for handing out leaflets
that opposed the Nazis.
White Rose Leaflets
Click here if you want to learn more!
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Resisters
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Liberators

• The Allied troops moved across Europe in a series
  of offensives against Nazi Germany.
• In the process, they liberated many of the
  concentration camps, where they found prisoners
  suffering from starvation and disease.

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Liberators

• Soviet Forces
• British Forces
• U.S. Forces

Click on the names to find out more!
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Quiz
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Soviet Forces

• Liberated

• Majdanek
• Belzec
• Sobibor
• Auschwitz
• Stutthof
• Sachsenhausen
• Ravensbrueck

Prisoners of Auschwitz greet their liberators
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Liberators
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Soviet Forces
If you would like to hear the personal story of a
man who was liberated by the Soviet forces in the
Auschwitz camp click here!
Liberated inmates behind the barbed wire fence
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British Forces

• Liberated
• Neuengamme
• Bergen-Belsen

Bergen-Belsen at liberation
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British Forces
If you would like to hear the personal story of a
man who was liberated by the British forces in
the Bergen-Belsen camp click here!
The gruesome picture of the Bergen-Belsen
concentration camp as discovered by British
troops on April 20, 1945.
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U.S. Forces
Liberated

• Buchenwald
• Dora-Mittelbau
• Flossenbuerg
• Dachau
• Mauthausen

American soldiers escort children survivors of
Buchenwald out of the main gate of the camp
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Liberators
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U.S. Forces
If you would like to hear the personal story of a
man who was liberated by the United States forces
in the Dachau concentration camp click here!
Dachau Inmates at Liberation
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Liberators
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Before you take the quiz, get into groups of
three or four and discuss what you learned!

• Discussion Questions

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• What did you find most interesting?
• What was the most shocking thing you learned?
• Why was the Holocaust wrong?
• Do you think a Holocaust could happen now? Why or
  why not?
• What can we do as a society and as individuals to
  prevent a Holocaust from happening again?

Now, it is time to take the quiz!
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1. Who established an underground movement to
fight the enemy?

• Dwight Eisenhower
• Winston Churchill
• Benito Mussolini
• Joseph Stalin

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b
c
d
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GREAT JOB!

• Now go on to the next question!

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Sorry, your answer is incorrect.
The correct answer is Joseph Stalin.

• Now go on to the next question!

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2. Who was freed if they signed documents
renouncing their faith?

• Christians
• Jehovahs Witnesses
• Muslims
• Jews

a
b
c
d
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GREAT JOB!

• Now go on to the next question!

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Sorry, your answer is incorrect.
The correct answer is Jehovahs Witnesses.

• Now go on to the next question!

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3. Who were the Nuremberg Laws established for?

• Jews
• Homosexuals
• Christians
• Muslims

a
b
c
d
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GREAT JOB!

• Now go on to the next question!

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Sorry, your answer is incorrect.
The correct answer is Jews.

• Now go on to the next question!

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4. What victims wore a pink triangle on their
clothing?

• Gypsies
• Jews
• Political Prisoners
• Homosexuals

a
b
c
d
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GREAT JOB!

• Now go on to the next question!

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Sorry, your answer is incorrect.
The correct answer is Homosexuals.

• Now go on to the next question!

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5. Which forces did not help liberate
concentration camps?

• United States
• Polish
• Soviet
• British

a
b
c
d
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GREAT JOB!

• Now go on to the next question!

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Sorry, your answer is incorrect.
The correct answer is Polish.

• Now go on to the next question!

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6. Who established an underground economy with
illegal mills and workshops?

• Poles
• Gypsies
• Slavs
• Jews

a
b
c
d
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GREAT JOB!

• Now go on to the next question!

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Sorry, your answer is incorrect.
The correct answer is Jews.

• Now go on to the next question!

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7. What victims were mistreated and tormented by
other inmates?

• Homosexuals
• Gypsies
• Jews
• Jehovahs Witnesses

a
b
c
d
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GREAT JOB!

• Now go on to the next question!

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Sorry, your answer is incorrect.
The correct answer is Homosexuals.

• Now go on to the next question!

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8. Which forces liberated the most concentration
camps?

• French
• United States
• Soviet
• British

a
b
c
d
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GREAT JOB!

• Now go on to the next question!

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Sorry, your answer is incorrect.
The correct answer is Soviet.

• Now go on to the next question!

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9. Which is not a form of armed resistance?

• Destroying power stations
• Working slowly
• Blowing up bridges
• Cutting telephone lines

a
b
c
d
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GREAT JOB!

• Now go on to the next question!

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Sorry, your answer is incorrect.
The correct answer is working slowly.

• Now go on to the next question!

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10. Which group is not considered political
prisoners?

• Communists
• Immigrants
• Members of trade unions
• Socialists

a
b
c
d
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GREAT JOB!

• Now go on to the next question!

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Sorry, your answer is incorrect.
The correct answer is immigrants.

• Now go on to the next question!

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Congratulations!
You are now done with the Quiz.
If you got less than eight out of ten questions
correct, please go back to the main menu and
review the information, otherwise you are done.
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