Transcript The HOLOCAUST

Journal Entry #1
 Have you ever witnessed something you
believe was wrong? What did you do about it?
 You have five minutes to write five or more
complete sentences.
THE HOLOCAUST
A Brief Review
By the end of this presentation
you will:
Develop a deeper understanding of the
Holocaust.
Understand the meaning of genocide.
Have an understanding of the author Elie
Wiesel.
Holocaust
 Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning
"sacrifice by fire."
 In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe
stood at over nine million.
 By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators
killed nearly two out of every three European
Jews as part of the "Final Solution," the Nazi
policy to murder the Jews of Europe.
The Holocaust
 The Holocaust was the systematic persecution
and murder of approximately six million Jews by
the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
 "The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in
January 1933, believed that Germans were
"racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed
"inferior," were a threat to the so-called German
racial community.
 The Holocaust is a form of genocide.
Genocide
 The term genocide comes from the Greek root
geno meaning “race” and the Latin root cide
meaning “killing”.
 Think about what the term genocide means.
 Write your definition.
 Discuss your definition with your shoulder
partner. You may change your definition after
listening to your partner.
Gathering Evidence
 You will be viewing six photographs and a
short video
 As you watch please gather evidence of
injustices that the Jewish population faced
during the Holocaust.
 Record your observations on the note sheet
provided.
 We will have a class discussion based on the
evidence you gathered.
Imagine the conditions on those trains. What would
it be like? How would you feel?
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Photo Archives
Photograph Two
Notice their clothing. What do you see? What does that mean?
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Photo Archives
Photograph Three
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Photo Archives
Photograph Four
Look at the details of this picture. How are the prisoners dressed? How are
they standing? What inferences can you make?
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Photo Archives
Photograph Five
Based on this photo, what inferences can you make about
the treatment in the camps?
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Photo Archives
Photograph 6
Imagine sleeping in these quarters.
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Photo Archives
Video
Link to video from the United States Holocaust
Memorial Museum website about the liberation
of death camp known as Auschwitz.
Video
Maximize the Real Player video screen to view
the video.
Elie Wiesel
 Jewish author born in 1928-Sighet,
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Transylvania (a.k.a Romania).
At 15 he and his family were deported to the
Nazi death camp of Auschwitz in Poland.
Wiesel and father transferred to another
camp…father died.
Received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.
Author of famous memoir “Night”
Conclusive Statements
 What statements can you make about the
treatment of the Jewish population based on the
evidence gathered while looking at the
photographs and video?
 What statements can you make about genocide?
Objective Review
Develop a deeper understanding of the Holocaust.
Understand the meaning of genocide.
Have an understanding of the author Elie Wiesel.
Explain how.
Genocide exercise