An Experience to Personalize Numbers Another Pile of Shoes An Experience to Personalize Numbers

Write a Short Descriptive Paragraph About Your Shoes Include statements about WHERE, WHEN and WHY you got them Reflect on WHAT they mean to you, specifically

What are Nazi Death Camps? Of the approximately 6 million Jews murdered in the Holocaust, more than half were systematically exterminated in the highly rationalized gas chamber/crematorium system of the Nazi Death Camps between 1942 and 1945.

Website: http://www.phdn.org/histgen/schmitz/maidan01.html The Pile at Majdanek                                                                                                         A pile of the victims shoes at Majdanek. Website: http://www.phdn.org/histgen/schmitz/maidan01.html

On a piece of paper, infer from the previous picture at Majdanek the answers to the following questions: How many pairs of shoes could possibly be in this picture? How many victims wore these shoes into this particular death camp? Various places that the Holocaust victims wore these shoes before they came to the camp Reasons why they got these shoes in the first place

AUSCHWITZ-BIRKENAU Taken inside a huge glass case in the Auschwitz Museum. This represents one day's collection at the peak of the gassings, about twenty five thousand pairs.

Shoes at Auschwitz

On your piece of paper answer the following questions: What do you think is happening in this last picture? Why would people be sorting this enormous pile of shoes? How many victims wore these shoes? Where did they wear them before being transferred to the death camp?

SHOES at BELZEC Pile of the victims shoes at the Belzec extermination camp. Website: http://www.phdn.org/histgen/schmitz/belzec01.html

Shoes at Belzec On your piece of paper, write a final paragraph answering the following questions: How many shoes do you think are in this picture at Belzec? How would you feel if a pair of the shoes in the picture belonged to you or someone you loved?