WWII - Holocaust
WWII - Holocaust
For today’s assignment, I want you to take a journey through the Auschwitz. I am going to provide you with information that will bring you as close as I can to imagining what it must have been like for those who were victims of the Holocaust, whether they were survivors or not. Remember as you read and learn about this most devastating of human atrocities that prejudice still takes place in our world, our country and even our school. The only way to end the violence, prejudice and cruelty to our fellow mankind is to practice tolerance ourselves. The choices you make can cause change… ~Mrs. C
• Please go to the following website: then-and-now/index.html (The Cybrary of the Holocaust)
• Click on: CLICK HERE TO START TOUR
Remember to click on the picture to switch between the artist’s depiction of how it was then and what it looks like now.
• As you READ, answer the following questions:
1. The barracks at Auschwitz II were originally intended to hold how many prisoners? How many prisoners did they sometimes contain?
2. Who were Capos?
3. How did the Capos act?
4. What was Block 11?
5. What was a stand-up cell?
6. What slogan was at the entrance of many of the concentration camps?
7. Why did Nazi dehumanize their prisoners?
8. What happened to prisoners too ill to work?
9. What did the prisoners sleep on?
10. At the peak in 1944, about how many people were imprisoned in Auschwitz?
11. Why were the Soviet’s treated worse that people of other nationalities?
12. What was required of prisoners every morning and every evening?
13. What happened to almost all who came before the court in Block 11?
14. Describe the restroom and washrooms.
15. How was Auschwitz built?
You can explore the following sites (& these sites only) on your own:
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Washington, DC)
Non-Jewish Victims of the Holocaust
Holocaust Survivors
The History Place
worldhistory/genocide/holocaust.htm
The Jewish Virtual Library
jsource/holo.html
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