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Lesson 3

Choices


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Learning Objectives

1. To understand the key terms:

perpetrator, victim, bystander and

rescuer.2. To consider ways in which bystanders as

well as perpetrators contribute to

injustice, through a study of the choices

made by people involved in the

Holocaust.


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Starter (5 mins)

What do you think these words

mean:

Perpetrator?

Victim?

Bystander?Rescuer?


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Some of the different roles people

played...Perpetrator

Victim

Bystander

Rescuer

The person doing theinjustice to someone else

The person who is thetarget of the injustice

The person watching theinjustice being done

Sees injustice being doneand tries to stop it


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Examples from the Holocaust

Perpetrators: The Nazis of whom Adolf Hitlerwas the leader.

Victims: the Jews and others including disabledpeople, political opponents, Jehovahs witnessesand others.

Bystanders: Everyone who just stood by andwatched thinking it wasnt their business to

interfere.

Rescuers: People who did try to interfere andput a stop to the injustice e.g. Oscar Schindler.


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Activity 1 : Roles (15 minutes)

These roles exist in certain scenarios

today.

In pairs, look at the copy of the cartoonyou have been given. Identify who is

playing each role (i.e. perpetrator, victim,

bystander and rescuer).

Then fill in the speech bubbles.

Feedback your thoughts to the class.


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The next slide shows a photo fromKristallnacht.

(This means The night of the Broken Glass).What do you think is happening?

Try to identify the various roles in the photo:victim, perpetrators and bystanders.


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Remember Harrys testimony

whats happening here?


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Activity 2 : Responses Card Sort

(30 minu

tes)You will be given one pack of cards per pair. The

cards need to be sorted into two columns asfollows:

Actions of Perpetrators Actions of Bystanders

Please be aw

are th

at allo

f th

e events/scenario

sshown on the cards actually happened.


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What did you decide?

Discussion points

What influenced your choices? Were your choices easy to make?

Did you feel that you needed a third

column?


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Plenary (10 minutes)

Unlike those living under Nazi occupationwe live in a free, democratic society andso cannot really appreciate why individualsmay have made the choices they did.

However, many individuals chose tobecome bystanders/perpetrators evenwhen other options may have been opento them. Is it right to make suchjudgements?

Look at the next slide..................


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What do you think is happening here?

What kind of emotions do the women in the photo portray?

What kind of trip might the photo remind you of?


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What was really in the photo?

These women were Hellferinnen (helpers).

They were typists, telegraph clerks andsecretaries of Auschwitz. They were on an

excursion to a recreation centre just outside thecamps borders. It was summer 1944 and bythen nearly 1 million people had been murderedat the place where they worked.

Just like the victims, these were ordinarypeople , but unlike the victims they couldmake a choice.

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