Holocaust


 * The Holocaust: A Webquest

Rationale: The Holocaust was an extreme event that occurred in a suposedly "developed" and "advanced" nation only a few generations ago. Therefore, the students will conduct research into the historical nature of the Holocaust. It is important to identify students' feelings and emotions regarding the Holocaust, but these emotions should be based on a historical understanding of exactly what happened during the years 1933 to 1945 in Nazi-occupied Europe.

Students: Directions for Researching the Holocaust  You will use one website, [|the educational outreach site of the US Holocaust Museum], to answer questions about the Holocaust. The purpose of this activity is to give you a basic understanding of the history of the Holocaust. Once you know the basic facts, you will have an opportunity to write about what you have learned.

Answering the Questions  Each question will have a web page linked to it where the answer can be found. You can use a printed version of the questions to write your answers. Be sure to check out the images, maps, and sidebars that appear on each page. each photograph and map has a caption which will help you become more knowledgeable about the Holocaust.

Thinking and Writing About What You Have Learned  Once you have answered all of the questions on the basics of the Holocaust, it will be time to conduct your own research using the Web. Use these materials to explore one topic related to the Holocaust in-depth by becoming an expert on that topic. Start at the Holocaust Encyclopedia of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum at [] to research one topic more thoroughly.  Next comes the time to choose a format for your expressive project. Formats include:  || The Holocaust: A Webquest All of the questions below start at the Table of Contents page of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum's [|education outreach page.] You can also navigate the site by clicking the links in the header at the top of the page or by following the links at the bottom. [|.]
 * Wikis, Google Sites, essays, PowerPoint Presentations, posters, news articles, poems, drawings
 * Anything that expresses your knowledge and understanding of the subject || <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> [[image:http://www.cyberlearning-world.com/nhhs/gif4/smjude.jpg caption="The Star of David"]]

=<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">THE HOLOCAUST: A LEARNING SITE FOR STUDENTS = <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Nazi Rule: [|Hitler Comes to Power] 1) What was the name of the weak government of Germany created after World War I? _

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 2) To which levels or members of German society did the Nazi Party of Adolph Hitler appeal? _ [|The Nazi Terror Begins] 3) The USHMM website states that tens of thousands of young, unemployed German men were "lured by the wages, a feeling of comradeship, and the striking uniforms," to join which organization within the Nazi Party? Give both the English and German terms. _ _ 4) What did these "auxiliary policemen" do to those who opposed the Nazi regime? _ _ [|The SS Police State] 5) What was the name of the Protective Squad that began as a special guard for Adolph Hitler and other party leaders? Describe their role in the affairs of the Nazi Party. _ _ [|Nazi Racism] 6) What was Hitler's term for the "master race?" Describe this type of person. _ _ 7) Other than Jews, what types of German citizens were victims of Nazi racial ideology? _ _ [|Anti-Semitism] 8) Define anti-Semitism. How far does it go back? What does the term pogrom mean? In what other nations were Jews treated as [|scapegoats]?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> _ _ _ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Jews in Prewar Germany

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">Jewish Life in Europe Before the Holocaust []

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 9) How many Jews lived in Germany at the time of the 1933 census? How many of these <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Jews were German citizens? How were the remaining German Jews classified?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|The Nuremberg Laws] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 10) How did the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 classify people in Germany as Jewish (by what <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> standard did the government judge if a person was Jewish)?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 11) How did the Nazi government identify Jews within the society of Germans in general?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 12) Why? The question is simple. Why is all of this happening? (Or is it simple?)

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Boycott of Jewish Businesses] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 13) How did the Storm Troopers carry out the boycott of Jewish businesses on April 1, 1933. <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Even though the boycott was not very successful, tell why it was important.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|German Occupied Europe] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 14) Which European nation was treated the harshest under German rule? Give two examples <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> of the type of rule Germany placed on that nation. Which nation was treated the easiest?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|The Night of Broken Glass] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 15) Tell what happened on the night of November 9, 1938. What is the German name for <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> this event? What caused the violence?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|The Evian Conference] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 16) Who called the Evian Conference? When was it called and for what purpose did it <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> meet? _

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 17) List one reason why efforts to allow more refugees into the US failed before World <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> War II.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Map: [|Jewish Emigration from Germany: 1933] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 18) Looking at the map, which country accepted the most Jews during this period? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> How many Jews escaped to Palestine? To Shanghai?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|The Final Solution] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 19) What was the goal of the "final solution?" What is the definition of the term <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> "genocide?"

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 20) Describe the two major stages of the Nazi plan to carry out the "final solution." <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> How many Jews were gassed in extermination camps?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 21) What were the einsatzgruppen? What methods did they use most often to carry out <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> their activities? in what nation did they operate

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Ghettos] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 22) In what city was the largest of the Jewish "residential quarters" found? How many <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> ghettos existed in all of the occupied territories?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 23) Describe the events of April 19, 1943 in the Warsaw Ghetto. How did the uprising <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> come to an end? What happened to the Jews of the Warsaw ghetto?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|The Wannsee Conference]24) What was the purpose of the Wannsee Conference?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Auschwitz] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 25) How many people died at Auschwitz? What percentage of them were Jewish?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 26) What was the goal of some of the medical experiments carried out by SS doctor Josef <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Mengele?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Killing Centers]27) What was the most common methods that Nazis committed mass murder at the killing centers?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Map: [|Extermination camps in occupied Poland] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 28) Use the map to list the major killing centers and extermination camps in Poland

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|Liberation] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 29) For each of the Allied army groups below, identify which killing center(s) was liberated <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> by each:

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Soviet Forces: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> American Forces: <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> British Forces: _

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 30) Why did about half of the concentration camp inmates die within a few weeks of <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> liberation? _

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|The Survivors] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 31) What led Great Britain to change its mind about establishing a Jewish homeland in its <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> territory of Palestine? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> _ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 32) What nation was formed from the division of Jewish and Arab territory in Palestine? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> When did it achieve independence? <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> _ <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[|The Nuremberg Trials] <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 33) How many Nazi leaders were put on trial in Nuremberg? How many were sentenced <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> to death?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 35) Who found Adolph Eichmann? What was he convicted of and what was his sentence?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Rescue and Resistance <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 36) What did the residents of Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, France do for Jews during the "Final Solution"?? Why??

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">37) How many Jews fought the Germans in the forests of eastern Europe?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Rescue in Denmark <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 38) Why is Denmark "singled out" among German occupied nations? What did they do? Where did they find safety for the Jews?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Jewish Partisans <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 39) What were Jewish partisans and what did they do?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Warsaw Ghetto Uprising <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 40) What was the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising? When did it occur and what were the results?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Killing Center Revolts <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 41) What happened at Sobibor? and Treblinka?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> War Refugee Board <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 42) What was the purpose of the War Refugee Board?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 43) Who was Raoul Wallenberg? Why do Jews/Israel consider him a "Righteous Gentile"?

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Resistance Inside Germany <span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 44) Identify at least two groups that resisted nazism inside of Germany.

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> Final Question

<span style="font-family: Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;"> 45) WHY??? Why did all of this happen? Why are we studying it?