11th Grade American History
Mr. Dalton’s Class
Subject:
The Holocaust
Objectives:
• To promote awareness of the events, causes,
and impact of the holocaust on European
culture.
• The students will analyze the holocaust and
its political, emotional, and humanitarian
impact on the 20th century.
• The students will define ten terms of the
holocaust
Objectives (continued)
• The students will connect the genocide of
the holocaust to current genocide in the
Balkans, Albania, Africa, and other
genocide from current history.
• The students will trace the five major
events leading to the internment of German
“undesirables” and concentration and work
camps
More Objectives:
• The students will write a personal reaction
paper to the video of the holocaust.
• The students will list four personal rights
denied the Jewish people during the rule of
the Third Reich.
• The students will develop an understanding
of the ramifications of prejudice, racism,
and stereotyping in any society.
Even more objectives:
• Given a map of Eastern Europe, the
students will locate the areas from which
the holocaust victims came
• the students will describe their reactions to
scenes form the video “Liberation of the
Camps”
Activities:
• Watch the video “Liberation of the Camps”
and write a reaction paragraph
• watch a clip from the movie Schlindler’s
List.
• After viewing an overhead map of the
concentration/death camps the students will
discuss Concentration vs. Death Camps.
Activities (continued)
• After viewing an overhead chart of the
Jewish population, the students will discuss
how so many could not escape the injustice
that they encountered.
• The students will create a timeline of the
systematic dehumanization practiced by the
Third Reich.
Even more activities:
• Given a map of Eastern Europe, the
students will locate the areas from which
the holocaust victims came.
• Watch the video form A&E Undercover
Report -- Einsatgruppen
• Students are news reporters with Allied
liberation forces, they will write a paragraph
for their home newspaper describing the
camps
The last of the activities:
• The students will discuss the differences
between the holocaust and current actions in
Kosovo by Serbian and NATO forces.
• The students will describe the cultural/racial
groups targeted by the Nazis as
“undesirable” and explain why these groups
were targeted.
Websites:
• Http://www.scetv.org/HolocaustForum/imag
es/Killcntr.gif
• http://www.friendspartners.org/partners/beyond-thepale/eng_captions/58-2.html
• http://www.fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/res
ource/glossary.htm
Websites:
• Http://www.ushmm.org/education/
• http://www.fmv.ulgar.ac.be/schmitz/holocau
st.html
• http://www.holocaust-history.org/
• http://www.holocaustforgotten.com
More Websites:
• Http://www.candles-museum.com/survivors
• http://www.holocaust.about.com/
• http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/cmu/user/mm
bt/www/resources.html
• http://motlc.weisenthal.com.pages
• http://library.yale.edu/
testimonies/homepage.html
Timeline:
• The events of the Holocaust occurred in two
main phases: 1933-1939 and 1939-1945
• 1933 -- Hitler becomes chancellorboycotts/Aryan Laws/book burnings
• 1935 -- Nuremberg Laws
• 1939 -- Invasion of Poland (Jews must wear
Star of David) Ghettos formed
Vocabulary
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Aryan
Auschwitz
Concentration Camp
Dachau
Death Marches
Vocabulary
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Euthanasia
Genocide
Heinrich Himmler
Holocaust
Kristallnacht
S.S.
Vocabulary
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Nuremberg Laws
Treblinka
Final Solution
Einsatzgruppen
Belzec
Important information
• In 1933 approximately 9 million Jews lived
in the 21 countries of Europe that would be
occupied by Germany during the war.
• By 1945 2 out of every 3 European Jews
had been killed
More Information:
• Although Jews were the primary victims, up
to one half million Gypsies and at least
250,000 mentally or physically disabled
persons were also victims of genocide.
• Nazis saw these people as a serious
biological threat to the purity of the German
(Aryan) Race”, what they called the “master
race.”
• The methods of murder were the same in
all the killing centers, which were operated
by the S. S.
• the victims arrived by freight cars and
passenger trains, mostly from ghettos and
camps in occupied Poland.
• On arrival , men an women were seperated
and forced to undress and turn over their
valuables
• They were then taken to gas chambers that
were disguised as showers and either carbon
monoxide or Zyklon B was used to
asphyxiate them.
• Resistance movements existed in all camps,
but was usually put down quickly.
• In May 1945, Nazi Germany collapsed, the
S.S. guards fled,and the camps ceased to
exist as concentration camps and turned into
displaced persons camps (DP camps)