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Monday 3/2 R.A.P.- Should people always speak out when they know someone is being hurt? Explain. Today: Finish presentations On podium—one sheet –Ch. 16.1 DUE Tuesday –Ch. 16.2 DUE Wednesday –Ch. 16.3 DUE Thursday
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Battle Presentations Finish presentations from last week. Stalingrad Tunisia
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HOLOCAUST Objective: SWBAT Describe stages of the Holocaust. Define key terms. Discuss the role of bystander during the Holocaust. Understand the United States role in the Holocaust by reading and discussing how much people knew about the Holocaust at the time.
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The Holocaust
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The next 16 slides… Ms. Gipson and Mrs. Kozubal’s trip to Europe in the summer of 2014. Dachau concentration camp.
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Dachau
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TERMS 1.Holocaust The systematic, bureaucratic annihilation of six million Jews by the Nazi regime during WWII. Over six million people of the Jewish heritage and approximately 5,000,000 others including Roma Gypsies, Serbs, Polish intelligents, resistance fighters, and opponents of Nazism, homosexuals, Jehovah’s Witnesses, habitual criminals, the physically and mentally disabled, and the poor and homeless were killed.
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2.Genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: (a) Killing members of the group; (b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; (c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; (d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; (e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group. (geno-, from the Greek word for race or tribe, with -cide, from the Latin word for killing)
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TERMS cont. 3. Anti-Semitism- –Policies, views, or actions that harm or discriminate against Jews. –Has plagued the world for more than 2,000 years.
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TERMS cont. 4.Indifference / Bystander- somebody who is indifferent or nearby but not involved – during WWII many people stood by watching the campaign against Jews and others without trying to help prevent the murder of millions. Why?
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Stages of the Holocaust As you take notes on the timeline of the Holocaust, please think about how people in Germany, Europe, and the United States could have helped prevent the Holocaust from happening.
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Stages of the Holocaust 1933- –Hitler is elected –Boycott of Jewish Businesses -isolates Jews both socially and economically from German society. 1935 –Nuremburg Laws– Laws are passed depriving German Jews of their citizenship and banning marriages between Jews and non-Jews. Forced to wear a yellow Star of David.
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Stage of the Holocaust cont. 1938 –Kristallnacht – Nazi official unleash a savage nationwide campaign of terror against Germany’s Jewish population. Many Jews are killed and hundreds of Jewish shops and synagogues are destroyed. 30,000 Jews are arrested and sent to prison camp. 1939 –Jewish Ghettos– Ghettos, or confined areas within a city are established in occupied eastern Europe. Jews from throughout Europe are forced from their homes and required to live in Ghettos.
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Stages of the Holocaust cont. 1942-1945 –Deportations throughout Europe– Nazis systematically round up Jews throughout Europe and transport them to death camps in Eastern Europe. –Final Solution– Nazi officials agree to move forward with a plan to kill all European Jews. Death camps are built specifically for this purpose; deportations of Jews throughout Europe begin. 1944-1945 –Liberation– Allied troops liberate, or free, approximately 300,000 Jews from the concentration and death camps.
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How much did people know? How did the U.S. respond? What did the people and the government of the U.S. know about the death camps, ghettos, and marches?
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People who did help Varian Fry— – a 32 year old Harvard-educated editor from New York City, helped save thousands of endangered refugees who were caught in the Vichy French zone escape from Nazi terror during World War II. Yet this man, known as "the American Schindler," died in obscurity, without recognition, having been reprimanded by the US government for his actions. War Refugee Board –board representatives managed to help save the lives of approximately 200,000 European Jews but could have saved hundreds of thousands more. Jehovah witnesses and others who risked their lives to hide Jewish people. Guards, Schindler, etc.
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Tuesday 3/3 RAP –What was “Kristallnacht”? –Who were some people that helped Jewish people during WWII? Today: Video on “One Survivor Remembers”
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“One Survivor Remembers” As you watch this documentary, on Gerda Weissmann, please pay attention to the different stages of the Holocaust. (38 minutes) Answer these questions in your notes as you watch. –Who helped Gerda Weissmann during this terrible time? –How did Gerda’s dad help Gerda? –Describe Gerda’s life in the camps. –Who found Gerda and the other ladies?
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United Nations on Genocide United Nations— Pledged to never let this happen again. The Convention confirms that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or war, is a crime under international law which parties to the Convention undertake “to prevent and to punish” (article 1). The primary responsibility to prevent and stop genocide lies with the State in which this crime takes place.
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GENOCIDES Genocides after WWII
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Closure Never Again by Wu Tang Schindler's List clips Write a paragraph describing what you think led to the Holocaust and how you think it could have been prevented. What do you think individuals, communities, countries, and the world should do, if anything, to prevent genocides from continuing to happen.
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Rest of the day Map due next Tuesday Read and take notes on Ch. 16.2 and 3 notes
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U.S. responses to the Holocaust Each group will read a response to the Holocaust by different groups in the U.S. Please discuss these questions with your group and then one person will share the following questions with the class— –Who or what group was in your reading? –What was their response to the information received on the Holocaust? –Why do you think they responded this way? –How do you think they could have responded?
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