American History

The Holocaust

Chapter 18

Mrs. Duran

Objective

• Today students:

-Will analyze the impact the Holocaust had on the world through the use of lecture, video, and cooperative group research.

Introduction-The Holocaust

What I know What I want to know

David Bergman

• VDavid was born to religious Jewish parents in a small town in Ruthenia, Czechoslovakia's easternmost province, which had been ruled by Hungary until 1918. Located in the Carpathian Mountains, the town was so isolated that news from the rest of the country would arrive by a drummer who would read the news in the town's central square. David's father worked as a tailor and his mother was a seamstress.

Oskar Schindler

A true story of one remarkable man who outwitted Hitler and the Nazis to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other during World War II. It is the story of Oskar Schindler who surfaced from the chaos of madness, spent millions bribing and paying off the SS and eventually risked his life to rescue 1200 Jews in the shadow of Auschwitz. In those years, millions of Jews died in the Nazi death camps, but Schindler's Jews miraculously survived.

Video of Clips from Schindler’s List: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFObK1B68qE&feature=related

Group Activity

See document on next slide for today’s activity! Please complete and submit in the dropbox.

Break Out ActivityHolocaust research

Students will research the following website: http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/ Then answer the following questions. You will submit these answers through view complete after class.

• What is anti-Semitism? (anti-Semitism)• What was the Holocaust? (anti-Semitism)• What was the “Third Reich?” (Third Reich)• How did the Nazi’s use propaganda? (Third Reich)• What was the Nazi’s “Final Solution?” (Final Solution)• What was “Kristallnact?” When did it happen? (Final Solution)• What happened to many Jewish refugees who were not allowed to enter the US? (Refugees)• What Caribbean nation increased immigration quotas? (Refugees)• What did the government ask Rabbi Stephen Wise to suppress? (US and Holocaust)• What did Jewish leaders beg the US to bomb? (US and Holocaust)• Describe how the Nazi’s tried to get rid of evidence of the concentration camps. (Liberation)• How did “Mobile Killing Units” operate? (Mobile Killing Units)• Describe how some Jews resisted the Nazi’s. (Jewish Resistance)• Other than Jews, who else did the Nazi’s target? (Mosaic)• How did the Holocaust specifically affect children? (Children)

Lesson in review

What I learned from today’s lesson:

In the following box, list three facts you learned today about the Holocaust that

you didn’t previously have knowledge of.