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THE HOLOCAUST
LESSON 7.8.8
April 27 & 28 2016
OBJECTIVE
Students can describe the Holocaust and explain its
historical significance
OVERVIEW
1. Poem Comprehension/Discussion
2. Pre-Lesson Activity
3. The Holocaust
4. Exit Ticket
5. Read passage of The Diary Anne Frank
TERRIBLE THINGS
COMPREHENSION/DISCUSSION
Allegory: a story, poem, or picture that can be interpreted to reveal a
hidden meaning, typically a moral or political one.
• How did the other forest animals react when the Terrible Things
first came for the birds?
• How did the Big Rabbit respond to the Little Rabbit's questions
• Why do you think the Terrible Things took only one group of
animals away at a time?
• What did the Forest creatures represent?
• Who/What were the Terrible Things?
http://store.scholastic.com/content/stores/media/products/samples/84/9780545154284.pdf
"FIRST THEY CAME FOR THE JEWS"
BY M ART IN N IEM O LL ER
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out--because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the communists
and I did not speak out--because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out--because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak out for me.
• Why was no one left?
• How is this Poem similar to "Terrible Things"?
PRE-LESSON ACTIVITY
Before the WWII: The Jewish population in Europe was about 9.5 million
(1933)
After WWII: The total Jewish population in Europe was about 3.5 million
(1950)
6 million Jews were killed during the Holocaust, which was 64% of the
total Jewish Population in Europe
THE HOLOCAUST
BACKGROUND INFO
• In 1933 Hitler was named Chancellor of Germany and in 1934 Hitler
anointed himself as "Fuhrer" or supreme
• Hitler's goals for the Nazi Party were racial purity and expansion
• Hitler used the Jewish people as a scapegoats for all of Germany's
problems
• Hitler Preached about a supreme German race which he referred to as
"Aryan"
ANTI-SEMITISM
The Holocaust didn't happen overnight.
• Anti-Jewish propaganda
• Boycott of Jewish stores and businesses
• Forced Jewish people to wear the Star of David on
their clothes
• Public Book Burnings
• Anti-Jew Legislation: Banning Jews from public life,
Restricted/Outlawed Jewish Students from German
Schools, Targeted Jewish Professionals & Business
Owners, and restricted their religious practices
KRISTALLNACHT
(NIGHT OF BROKEN GLASS)
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November 9 and 10, 1938
Violence against the Jewish people and their
community that was Instigated by the Nazi
Party
Was a reaction to the assassination of
German Official by a Polish Jew
Rioters destroyed and vandalized Jewish
Businesses and Synagogues
Police Officials arrested Young Jewish men
GHETTOS
• Jews were forced to leave their businesses, homes
and property to relocate in ghettos
• Terrible conditions: overcrowded, widespread
poverty & hunger, diseases
• Governed by Jewish Councils
• In 1942, Germans began mass transporting Jews
from the ghettos to Concentration Camps
CONCENTRATION & DEATH CAMPS
• Hitler's "Final Solution": exterminate all non-Aryans, starting with
the Jews
• The sick, old and weak were killed first, and the strong and healthy
were put to work in labor camps
• Thousands of Jews in labor camps died of starvation or disease
• The most common form of large scale mass murder was through
the use of gas chambers and then the bodies would be mass
cremated
• "Medical" experiments were also performed on Jews
• Gypsies, POWs, communists, soviet citizens, ethnic Poles,
homosexuals, the disabled, non-Christians were also victims of the
Holocaust
The entrance of labor camps read "Work makes you free"
Survivors of the Holocaust
Gas chamber used in Death Camps
A pile of shoes left behind from the people
killed in gas chambers
LIBERATION & AFTERMATH
• American troops coming from the west and Soviet troops from east began to
liberate surviving prisoners
• Nuremberg Trials:Tried & Executed Nazi Officials held accountable for the
Holocaust
• Creation of Israel: The Allied powers created a homeland for Jewish survivors
• Many Survivors would write books and give speeches to educate the public of
the Holocaust
EXIT TICKET
C H OOSE ONE OF T H E FOL L OW I NG
a. Name 3 ways the Nazi Party segregated against the Jews.
b. What was the Kristallnacht (Night of Broken Glass)?
c. What was Hitler's "Final Solution"?
d. Name one outcome of the aftermath of the Holocaust
DIARY OF ANNE FRANK
Synopsis:
The play follows the story of a young
Jewish Girl, Anne Frank, and her family as
they decide to go into hiding because of
the persecutions against Jews.
Characters:
Mr. Frank
Meep
Mrs.Vaan Daan
Mr.Vaan Daan
Peter
Mrs. Frank
Margot Frank
Anne Frank
Mr. Kraler
Mr. Dussel
http://marlieparnell.weebly.com/uploads/5/7/9/5/57953339/diary_of_anne_frank_play.pdf
SOURCES
• http://mandelproject.us/Humphrey.htm
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust
• http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust
• https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/es/article.php?ModuleId=10005687