Holocaust: Day of Remembrance

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Holocaust: Day of Remembrance

Introduction

1. What does the word “Holocaust” mean?

2. It says that the Holocaust was carried out by the Nazi Party and its collaborators. What is a collaborator?

3. What groups were targeted for racial reasons?

4. What groups were targeted for political reasons?

Hitler and the Nazis

5. Why did Hitler target the Jews?

6. What was the purpose of the Nuremberg Laws?

7. What actions were taken against the Jews on Kristallnacht?

8. Watch the video clips. Write a one sentence summary for each clip. What was it about?

The Ghettos

9. What was the purpose of the ghettos?

10. Describe living conditions in the ghettos.

11. Watch the two video clips and describe what Aaron remembers and experienced.

The Camps

12. What was the Wannsee Conference? What was decided at the conference?

13. Why did the Nazis decide to build extermination camps? How was it different from a concentration camp?

14. Click on the picture image gallery. Watch the video clip. Click on the Interactive map, and then read about Treblinka and Auschwitz. Write a brief summary of what you learned about each camp.

Auschwitz-

Treblinka-

End of War/Liberation

15. Click on the image gallery. Watch video 1. What is the “dichotomy” that Aaron talks about?

16. Watch video 2. Why was the prosecution of war criminals described as only symbolic for survivors?

17. What is a displaced person? What problems might be created by huge numbers of displaced people?

17. What crimes were Nazi leaders charged with?

18. How did the IMT define “crimes against humanity”?

19. How were the Nazi leaders punished for their crimes?

20. Click on the map. What is the topic of the map? Which country had the highest number of deaths? Which country on the map had the lowest number of deaths.

Genocide today

Watch the video.

21. What is genocide?

22. In the introduction to this website it says that the Holocaust was carried out by the Nazi Party and its collaborators. Who were the collaborators?

23. Hitler and his supporters wanting to exterminate the Jews. Why do you think the normal average German citizen would go along with this?

24. Genocide continues in different places today. What is the root cause of genocide?

25. How can we prevent future instances of genocide? What is something specific that you could do?