Ch 32-3
The Holocaust
Group Discussions
Why do you think that an event is horrifying as the Holocaust was able to occur?
Standards:
I-C.8 Analyze and evaluate the causes, events and impacts of World War II from various perspectives.
Objectives:
Trace the course of persecution of the Jews by the Nazis.
Describe the results of the final solution.
WICOR: Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization and Reading
EQ: Why do you think that an event as horrifying as the Holocaust was able to occur?
The Holocaust begins
Night of broken glass
A flood of refugees
Isolating the Jews
The Holocaust Begins
Night of Broken Glass
Survivors Remember Kristallnacht: Susan (Hilsenrath) Warsinger
Refugees (1945)
The final solution
The killings begin
The final stage
The survivors
Band of Brothers- Liberation of Concentration Camp
The Pianist
The Pianist wandering Through the empty Ghetto
Vocabulary:
Aryans
Germanic peoples
Holocaust
Systematic mass killing of Jews and other groups considered inferior by Nazis
Kristallnacht
"night of Broken Glass," when Nazis attacked Jews throughout Germany
Ghettos
Neighborhoods in which European Jews were forced to live
"Final Solution"
Hitler's plan to kill as many Jews as possible
Genocide
Systematic killing of an entire people