Unit Goals:

• Students will be able to analyze and describe the Holocaust and how marginalized groups were effected in Nazi occupied Europe
• Students will be able to explain the impact of silence on the Holocaust
• Students will be able to describe ways that victims of the Holocaust resisted oppression
• Students will be able define genocide and provide multiple examples of genocides throughout the twentieth century

Vocabulary:

8.1: Holocaust, genocide, anti-Semitism, The Nuremberg Laws, Kristallnacht, ghetto, concentration camps, Final Solution, extermination, death marches, Liberation

8.2: active resistance, sonderkommando, partisans, creative resistance, Kinderstransport

8.3: indifference, oppression, neutral

8.4: n/a

8.5: Displaced Persons Camps, Liberation, survivor's guilt, Nuremberg Trials, Zionism

8.6: Pan-Turkism, the millet system, the Young Turks, Armenian Genocide

8.7: Cambodian Genocide, Pol Pot, Khmer Rouge

8.8: Rwandan Genocide, Hutu, Tutsi, Interhamwe

Unit Quote:

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor" -Desmond Tutu