1. Journal Entry #1
Have you ever witnessed something you believe was wrong? What did you do about it?
You have five minutes to write five or more complete sentences.

2. A Brief Review
The HOLOCAUST

3. By the end of this presentation you will:
Develop a deeper understanding of the Holocaust. Understand the meaning of genocide. Have an understanding of the author Elie Wiesel.

4. Holocaust
Holocaust is a word of Greek origin meaning "sacrifice by fire."
In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million.
By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the "Final Solution," the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe.

5. The Holocaust
The Holocaust was the systematic persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.
"The Nazis, who came to power in Germany in January 1933, believed that Germans were "racially superior" and that the Jews, deemed "inferior," were a threat to the so-called German racial community.
The Holocaust is a form of genocide.

6. Genocide
The term genocide comes from the Greek root geno meaning “race” and the Latin root cide meaning “killing”.
Think about what the term genocide means.
Write your definition.
Discuss your definition with your shoulder partner. You may change your definition after listening to your partner.

7. Gathering Evidence
You will be viewing six photographs and a short video
As you watch please gather evidence of injustices that the Jewish population faced during the Holocaust.
Record your observations on the note sheet provided.
We will have a class discussion based on the evidence you gathered.

8. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Imagine the conditions on those trains. What would it be like? How would you feel?
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Photo Archives

9. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Photograph Two
Notice their clothing. What do you see? What does that mean?
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Photo Archives

10. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Photograph Three
Do you know what that sign says?
The Jewish district-no trespassing
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Photo Archives

11. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Photograph Four
Look at the details of this picture. How are the prisoners dressed? How are they standing? What inferences can you make?
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Photo Archives

12. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Photograph Five
Based on this photo, what inferences can you make about the treatment in the camps?
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Photo Archives

13. Photograph 6 Imagine sleeping in these quarters.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Photo Archives

14. Video
Link to video from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum website about the liberation of death camp known as Auschwitz. Video Maximize the Real Player video screen to view the video.

15. Elie Wiesel
Jewish author born in 1928-Sighet, Transylvania (a.k.a Romania).
At 15 he and his family were deported to the Nazi death camp of Auschwitz in Poland.
Wiesel and father transferred to another camp…father died.
Received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1986.
Author of famous memoir “Night”

16. Conclusive Statements
What statements can you make about the treatment of the Jewish population based on the evidence gathered while looking at the photographs and video?
What statements can you make about genocide?

17. Objective Review Develop a deeper understanding of the Holocaust.
Understand the meaning of genocide.
Have an understanding of the author Elie Wiesel.
Explain how.

18. Genocide exercise