Good Afternoon Friends

Today:1. Collect Position Paper –

Updates on Quarter Grades and Parent Teacher Conferences

2. Notes on the Holocaust 3. Video Interviews with

Survivors 4. Discussion Review

EQ: What was the progression of the Holocaust? What happened at each stage?

What enables people/groups of people to commit mass murder?

• Obedience• Conformity• Inaction• Dehumanization• Anonymity• Fear? Hate?• Power of the situation

Progression of the Holocaust1. Persecution of Jews in Germany

1933-1939– Anti-Jewish Laws --. Legitimize

anti-Semitism • Nuremburg Laws 1935 –

deprived Jews of their citizenship– Kristallnacht (Night of Broken

Glass)1938 pogrom (organized massacre or act of violence against a specific ethnic group) against Jews

– Force Jews to emigrate

Progression of the Holocaust cont. 1. Round up all Jews 1939-1941– After the invasion of Poland (1939), Germans

realized that they needed to round up the Jewish population – make room for the Germans.

– Put Jews in Ghettos in Eastern European cities, i.e. Warsaw – Jews organized within the ghettos • Lived in sub-human Conditions• Jewish Resistance – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising 1940

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0EKAgUEkbQ

Progression of the Holocaust 1. The Final Solution 1941-1945– Special killing squads (Einsatzgruppen) sent in after

Barbarossa – Problems with killing this way? – Death Camps begin in 1941• Operated by the SS Hitler’s elite soldiers• Sole purpose was to kill people

– Chelmno, Sobibor, Treblinka, Majdanek, Auschwitz, and Belzec were the 6 extermination camps (all in Poland)• Main method of killing was gas chambers

– Zyklon B

Concentration Camps

Nuremberg Trials 1945-46• 21 Top Nazi officials put on trial

– Nuremburg, Germany– Judges from the U.S., U.S.S.R., and Great Britain presided over the trial

• Thousands of German officials and soldiers would be tried in separate trials• New International charges were created to fit the Nazi crimes

– Conspiracy to commit aggressive war– Crimes Against Peace– Crimes against humanity– Genocide

• Of the 21 tried:– 11 sentenced to death

• 1 of which committed suicide – 7 were given various jail sentences– 3 were acquitted (not charged)

Discuss

• 1 – Describe the 3 phases of the Holocaust.• 2 – Why do you think these phases were

necessary to allow the Holocaust to happen.• 1 – Describe the Nuremberg Trials.• 2 – Are you surprised that some Nazi officials

were Acquitted? If so why? If not why not?

Tuesday? OK We Got this.

Today:1. Holocaust Documents2. Group Discussion3. Individual ResponseEQ: How did normal people perpetuate the Holocaust?

FYI: Grades going in today!Come see me at lunch if you are concerned.

Holocaust Documents

• Directions –– With your group look over the Holocaust

Documents and complete the worksheet.

Weird its Wednesday….?

Today:1. Updates2. Finish Documents3. Final Reflections4. Debrief and

Discussion. EQ: How did normal people perpetuate the Holocaust?

Holocaust Documents

• Directions –– With your group look over the Holocaust

Documents and complete the worksheet.

Happy Mini-Block Day My Friends Today:1. Notes on resistance 2. Remembering resistance

through art. 3. Mini Group Discussion *if

time4. Syria as Genocide *if time

EQ: In times of great darkness, how did Jews and their sympathizers resist and revolt against the Nazis?

Resistance on the small scale

• Sabotage in work camps – • Stealing and sharing of food• Hiding in attics/cellars • Creating arts/sports teams/plays/community

organizations

If a Nazi soldier was murdered by a Jew, not only was that Jew executed, but also his family and perhaps a hundred others. As a result, few Jews carried out active resistance from fear of reprisals.

Spiritual Resistance IN Ghettos

"All forms of culture sustained life in the ghetto. Since curfew rules did not allow people on the street from 7 p.m. until 5 a.m. the next morning, socializing had to be among friends living [in] the same building or visitors who spent the night. Card playing was very popular, and actors, musicians, comics, singers, and dancers all entertained small groups who came together for a few hours to forget their daily terror and despair.“

David Altshuler writes in Hitler's War Against the Jews

Resistance with the help of others • A carpenter named Georg Elser to assassinate Hitler

in November 1939 by planting a bomb in a pillar in the Bürgerbräu beer cellar

• Jews were hidden in the Warsaw Zoo by the zoo's director, Jan Zabinski.

• 12,000 Jewish children were rescued by clergymen in France who found housing for them and even smuggled some into Switzerland and Spain.

• “Schindler's List.” - 1,200 Jewish workers saved in his factory

Denmark – National Scale Resistance

• Denmark was the only occupied country that actively resisted the Nazi regime's attempts to deport its Jewish citizens.

• The Danes organized a nationwide effort to smuggle the Jews by sea to neutral Sweden.

• Were able to save almost all their Jewish population. (90%)

Other examples of Countries that took in Jews

China• Between 1933 and 1941, the Chinese city

of Shanghai accepted unconditionally over 18,000 Jewish refugees escaping the Holocaust in Europe, a number greater than those taken in by Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and British India combined during World War II. Japanese government ensured Jewish safety in China, Japan and Manchuria

Resistance Jigsaw Select two resistance stories to read.

Draw a cartoon (multi-panel) or illustration (single panel) representing or telling the tale of resistance you selected.

Stick figures are fine, but if you aren’t good at drawing people go figurative instead of literal.

Small Group Discussion QuestionsIf you were in danger of being killed for your actions, would you help others escape Nazi persecution?

How would you suggest dealing terms with humanitarian crimes if committed by your country?

Who would you consider most responsible for Nazi crimes, those who made the laws of persecution, those who carried them out, those who did not interfere?

Analyze the dilemma of the bystander in Nazi Europe. Do you think that a bystander is guilty of the crime s/he stands by and lets happen?“

Identify the risks of helping or even being associated with someone considered "undesirable" by Nazi policy.

Discuss current acts of persecution of certain groups in today's newspapers and magazines.

What’s new in the news

Potential for Syria to turn into a genocide?