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Oral Histories WW2 and the Holocaust
What is an Oral History? the collection and study of historical information using sound recordings of interviews with people having personal knowledge of past events.
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Fighting in WW2 Topics/ Group Common Traits Zenji Abe – Japanese Navy
Individual Accounts/ Summation (what stands out to you about the video?) Common Traits Zenji Abe – Japanese Navy What did these interviews have in common? Vernon Baker – US Army 101st Airborne Company – Battle of the Bulge
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Zenji Abe – Japanese Navy
Soldiers Stories Zenji Abe – Japanese Navy Vernon Baker – US Army 101st Airborne Company – Battle of the Bulge
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Civilians – Targets in Total War
Country Number of Deaths Poland 3 million USSR 1 million Romania 350,000 Hungary 250,000 Czech. Germany 165,000 Lithuania 130,000 Netherlands 105,000 Latvia 70,000 France 65,000 Austria Greece Yugoslavia 60,000 Bulgaria 48,000 Belgium 25,000
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Phases Persecution Confinement Mass Murders Final Solution
Laws established to restrict rights Pogroms such as kristallnacht Confinement Ghettos and 1st Camps Mass Murders Eisengruppen (death squads) traveled followed the main German Army and kill thousands of individuals (deemed to time consuming & bad for the German soldiers) Final Solution Mass murders in death camps
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Shoah “destruction” In 1994, Steven Spielberg founded the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation (original title), a nonprofit organization established to record testimonies in video format of survivors and other witnesses of the Holocaust.
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Reflections on Holocaust Survivor stories
Reflections on Holocaust Survivor stories *pick three Holocaust survivor stories to watch Questions Videos What stood out to you about each of these stories? How do the German’s dehumanize (take away the individuality) the prisoners?
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Survivor’s Stories Questions:
MAUS II: a survivor’s tale 1. How did the main character reunite with his wife in Auschwitz? 2. What camp were the women in? How was this camp different from Auschwitz I? 3. What type of work did the prisoners do in the camp? Questions for everyone: Describe what happens to the prisoners immediately after arriving at Auschwitz. (what is the process that the Germans put the prisoners through?) How do the German’s dehumanize (take away the individuality) the prisoners?
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