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STATION 1: ANTI-SEMITISM & ARYAN SUPREMACY **group**
1. In Persecution and Emigration, read the section called “A Long History” in Chapter 1. What
is anti-Semitism?.
2. Look at the anti-Semitic propaganda on the marked pages in the books. Which image do you
feel would have been the most effective for creating anti-Semitic feelings? Why?
3. Find the section titled “Nazi Racism” in Tell Them We Remember. Use the photos and text
to answer the following questions.
3a. What was Hitler’s preferred phenotype for Aryans?
3b. Who, other than Jewish people, were excluded from the Aryan “master race?”
3c. Which picture and caption (explanation) do you think was the most humiliating to
the person ? Why?
3d. In the last paragraph, we learn that teachers “classified” children as Aryans or
not. Schools were important ways for the Nazi party to spread their values and
principles, using anti-Semitic textbooks, posters, and children’s clubs. Do you think
that school is an appropriate place to spread values and principles?
________________________________
Why or why not?
3e. Do you feel that you are being taught values and principles here at Rolfe?
Explain your answer.
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STATION 2: PERSECUTION & PREJUDICE **group**
1. Look up “persecute” in the American Heritage Student Dictionary. What does
“persecution” mean? _________________________________________________
2. Using the section titled “The Rise of Anti-Semitism” in Holocaust, outline how the
Nazi Party persecuted the Jews, gypsies, and others.
3. Analyze at this photograph by carefully looking at it and read the caption. What can
you infer (figure out) about how Nazis felt about Judaism based on how they treated
these holy scrolls?
4. Listen to Yvonne Powell's story about her experience as an observer, then answer the
following questions.
4a. Do you think that a bystander has responsibility for a crime that he/she observes
and does nothing about? Why or why not?
4b. If you were perceived to be a member of the Aryan race and safe from
persecution, how would you have reacted to persecution of the Jews? Explain why.
5. Rank the following 5 people in terms of responsibility for the Holocaust. ("USHMM: Education Division")
Person Responsibility
Rank
Explain your ranking
A concentration camp guard
Children who joined Hitler
Youth
A businessperson who used
concentration camp inmates
as factory workers.
Someone who ignored the
situation and tried to just
“mind their own business.”
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STATION 3: THE FINAL SOLUTION **individual** Adapted from “Anne Frank Stations 1011” (Spisak)
1. Look at pp. 155-157 and the cover of the graphic novel Maus I by Art Spiegelman. This
is a book written by a man whose parents were Holocaust survivors. This was his attempt
to document his parents’ story. Answer the following questions.
1a. What animal represents the Jews? ____________________ (Hint: not pigs, who
represent the Polish people).
1b. What animal represents the Nazis? ____________________(Hint: not pigs, who
represent the Polish people).
1c. Choose an animal that you think would represent the Europeans and Americans who
defeat the Nazis. __________________
1d. Why do you think Spiegelman chose these animals to represent these groups of
people? (What is the symbolism?)
2. Directions:
Go to the following website http://www.remember.org/camps/
Select List of Photos under Birkenau or Mauthausen
If you do not have a computer, use Auschwitz, The Nazi Death Camps, and the other
books at your table to see pictures of the concentration camps.
Spend your ten minutes quietly searching through these pictures and reading the
captions. Do not discuss what you see with your group members. This is a time for
quiet, personal reflection.
With one or two minutes left, record your reactions in three to four sentences. You
may discuss your feelings, something that surprised you, something that horrified
you, etc.
Your reactions:
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STATION 4: LIBERATION **Group** Adapted from “Anne Frank Stations 1011” (Spisak)
1. In a Google search bar, type “define: liberate.” What does the word “liberate” mean?
____________________________________________________________________
2. Using your headphones, watch this animated map on the white laptop for background
knowledge about liberation. What emotions do you think the liberating soldiers felt
when they arrived at the camps?
3. Directions: Listen to clips of actual news broadcasts from NPR called “Eyewitness
Reports of Nazi Concentration Camps.”
Follow along with the transcript, and answer the questions.
You may pause the podcast as you write down your answers, and you can
listen to it as many times as you like.
3a. Which U.S. President announced victory in Europe? __________________
3b. Name one of the Nazi concentration camps that was liberated. (Don’t worry about
spelling.) ___________________
3c. What were the British soldiers filled with? _______________________________
3d. When one of the children in camp rolled up his sleeve, what was there?
_______________________________________________________________________
3e. What were some of the occupations (jobs) of the people before they were prisoners?
_______________________________________________________________________
3f. What song did the victims of the concentration camps play in their rescuers honor?
__________________________________
3g. The food rations for one American meal is as much food as the people in the camps
would normally get for ______ days.
3h. What did Winston Churchill say to the reporter about President Roosevelt?
_______________________________________________________________________
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STATION 5: AFTER THE HOLOCAUST **individual**
1. Directions: If you have a computer, locate the United Nations Resolution on Genocide by
opening ABC CLIO World History: The Modern Era, and searching for 354690 in the quick
search box at the top right. If you do not have a computer, use the paper copies on the table.
1a. Define genocide in your own words. Hint: Look in Article 2.
2. Directions: If you have a computer, read about the War Crimes Trials, the most famous of
which are the Nuremberg Trials and answer the following questions. If you do not have a
computer, use the paper copies on the table.
2a. What was the name of the special group of judges who tried the “major” war criminals?
Hint: search (control-F) for the word “major.” ___________________________________
2b. How did these trials help the world learn about concentration camps? Hint: search
(control-F) for the word “concentration.”
2c. Have all of the war criminals been brought to justice yet? Hint: look in the last
paragraph.
3. Watch actual video footage from the Nuremberg Trials. Did the defendants (people on trial)
feel that they had done anything wrong?
4. On p.37 of Aftermath and Remembrance, read the section called “Could It Happen Again?”
and view the photograph and caption on p. 38. Where has genocide occurred since the
Holocaust and when did it happen?
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