The Holocaust and Genocide studies kthomas@sd251.org Pick a book of interest Why did you pick this book?

Questions to Consider (Pre-Test) Expectations…. Questions to Consider (Pre-Test) Why are you here in this class? *1 paragraph (7-10 lines) statement of why you chose to take this class – be honest! After listening to me describe the expectations, are you really sure you should be here? Can you step it up? Why? How will you step it up? - be exact. List 5 “I want to know…” about the Holocaust or other Genocides. Please be aware I will give these statements back to you at the end of the trimester for further self-evaluation.

*THE HOLOCAUST: A Story of People The Victims: 11 Million: 6 Million Jews Killed/ 5 Million others The Perpetrators: Many Nationalities not just Nazi Germany Those that Resisted: Very few, but they come from all sides. The Liberators: Allied forces faced with the end horror and care for the victims.

The Victims and Their Perpetrators Jews-Roma-Jehovah Witness’s -Homosexuals The Nazis and Others

The Resistance and The Liberators The Resistance/Partisans The Liberators

*Remembering The Holocaust: Yad Vashem Was founded in 1953 in Jerusalem as a living memorial to the Holocaust. Multiple memorials and research facilities. Sits on 44.5 acres

*Remembering The Holocaust: The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Opened in 1993 It is the 2nd most visited Holocaust education/monument site in the world with 38 million visitors. Is considered the leading authority on the subject as an online resource. Six different experiences!

*Remembering The Victims Yad Vashem: Hall of Names It is the goal of Yad Vashem to catalogue and complete a biography for every murdered Jew of the Holocaust . 2.5 million names and testimony pages have been collected. 1,000 people dedicated to the process.

Anna Glinberg Parents resisted Nazi round up in Babi Yar, Ukraine. She was brutally killed by Nazi’s using rifle butts shortly after her parents being shot. 33,771 Jews were mascaraed along with more than 63,000 gypsies and communists.

*Remembering The Victims Yad Vashem: The Children’s Memorial The memorial reads names in three languages of the 1.5 million murdered Jewish children of the Holocaust . Haunting and spiritual at the same time! Inside the memorial

*Remembering The Victims USHMM: The Tower of Faces The three story tower consists of 2,000 photos taken by Yaffa Shtetl of Jewish citizens from Eishishok, Lithuania from 1890-1940. The Nazi SS entered his town in 1941 and massacred the entire population.

*Remembering The Victims Auschwitz-Birkenau: The Suitcase Room The suitcase of pictures was found nearly one year after the Holocaust buried near the crematorium (ovens) of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Only half of the photos have been identified. (34:04-38:18)

My Fellow Teachers

Why Study The Holocaust? To preserve our own concept of family! Children-Brothers/Sisters The Memories Alone! To Be Aware (History Repeats Itself!) To Know It Can Happen Anywhere! Footprints

Why study the Holocaust and Genocide? To Learn: How easily it occurred How willing people were to do it…. That people say it never happened… Genocide is happening today…