1. History Dept PP

2. Holocaust Teaching Weeks
14th – 25th January 2008
Remember , Reflect, React

3. Why teach the Holocaust and the lessons of the Holocaust?
The teaching of the Holocaust and the lessons that can be drawn from it go to the very root of the purpose of education.
This purpose is succinctly and movingly captured in the letter received by Chaim Ginott.

4. Dear Teacher
I am a survivor of a concentration camp. My eyes saw what no man should witness:
Gas chambers built by learned engineers.
Children poisoned by educated physicians.
Infants killed by trained nurses. Women and babies shot by high school and college graduates.
I am suspicious of education.
My request is:
Help your students become human. Your efforts must never produce learned monsters, skilled psychopaths, educated Eichmanns.
Reading, writing and arithmetic are important only if they serve to make our children more human.

5. Modern day relevance
Aim to teach the positive lessons which can be learned from the Holocaust.
What contribution can we make to try and ensure that bullying, racism, and prejudice does not happen in our society ?

6. The Nazis also enslaved and murdered millions of others including:
During the Second World War the Nazis sought to destroy all the Jews of Europe.
Industrial (factory) methods were used for the mass extermination of a whole people.
The Nazis also enslaved and murdered millions of others including:
Gypsies
Homosexuals
Political ‘enemies’
Jehovah’s Witnesses
Mentally and physically disabled people

7. Facts and Figures
The Holocaust extended across the entire continent of Europe
It is estimated that 11 million died during the events of the Holocaust
6 million of those who perished were Jewish
1.5 million of these were children

8. Girl poses with fake tears as her bowl is empty
Photo from Auschwitz guard’s album showing female SS workers eating blueberries.
On the same day 150 prisoners were taken to Auschwitz.
21 men & 12 women were selected for work.
The rest were sent to the Gas Chamber.

9. "Like the poisonous mushroom!" says Franz.
A mother and her young boy are gathering mushrooms in the German forest. The boy finds some poisonous ones. The mother explains that there are good mushrooms and poisonous ones, and, as they go home, says:
"Look, Franz, human beings in this world are like the mushrooms in the forest. There are good mushrooms and there are good people. There are poisonous, bad mushrooms and there are bad people. And we have to be on our guard against bad people just as we have to be on guard against poisonous mushrooms. Do you understand that?"
And do you know, too, who these bad men are, these poisonous mushrooms of mankind?" the mother continued.
Franz slaps his chest in pride: "Of course I know, mother! They are the Jews! Our teacher has often told us about them."
"However they disguise themselves, or however friendly they try to be, affirming a thousand times their good intentions to us, one must not believe them. Jews they are and Jews they remain. For our Volk they are poison."
"Like the poisonous mushroom!" says Franz.

10. Spot the evil children

11. Q. Can you tell which of these pre war photos of Germans contains non Jewish people ?
A. none of them.

12. Where did the events of the Holocaust take place?

13. Pre war Jewish populations

14. Post war Jewish populations

15. What makes you you?
Links to the community

16. Anti-Jewish Laws Sort the laws into chronological order
In your groups choose 3 laws,
which makes you feel the most:
Anger
Sadness
Fear

17. Jewish people can only buy food between 4pm and 5pm.
July 1940
Jewish people are not allowed to attend the cinema.
November 1938
Jewish children can only play with other Jewish children and no one else.
1938
Jewish people must be at home from 8pm in the winter and 9pm in the summer.
September 1939

18. Jewish people over 6 must wear a yellow star.
September 1941
Jewish people may not keep pets.
May 1942
Jewish Children are not allowed to go to school.
June 1942
Newborn Jewish children can only have a name from a special list.
August 1938

19. Jewish people are not allowed to use libraries.
August 1941
Jewish people are not allowed to have telephones.
July 1940
Jews may not buy magazines or newspapers.
February 1942
Jews are not allowed to be members of sports clubs.
April 1933

20. Jewish people must hand in their bikes and radios.
January 1936
Jewish people are not allowed to buy milk or eggs.
July 1942
Jewish people can be thrown out of their homes at any time.
April 1939
Jewish people are not allowed to use swimming pools.
December 1938

21. And then they came for me
First they came for the communists and I did not speak out because I was not a communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
And then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me.
By Martin Niemoeller ( )

22. Nazi Holocaust: 1938-1945 - 6,000,000 Deaths
Pol Pot in Cambodia:   - 2,000,000 Deaths
Bosnia-Herzegovina:   - 200,000 Deaths
Rwanda: 1994 - 800,000 Deaths
Darfur 2003 – present 500,000 Deaths

23. Modern Day Relevance
Aim to teach the positive lessons which can be learned from the Holocaust.
What contribution can we make to try and ensure that bullying, racism and prejudice does not happen in our community?

24. Sites on resistance

25. The Jewish Shtetl And once, there was a garden, and a child,
and a tree.
there was a father,
and a mother,
and a dog.
there was a house,
and a sister,
and a grandma.
there was life.
(Anonymous)