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HOLOCAUST STUDYDocument-Based Questions: Analyzing primary and secondary sourcesDOCUMENT #1HISTORY OF THE HOLOCAUST – TIMELINE (from ) 1933The Nazi party takes power in Germany and Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor, or prime minister of Germany.1935Jews are deprived of their citizenship and other basic rights.1936Nazis boycott Jewish-owned business.The Olympic Games are held in Germany; signs barring Jews are removed until the event is over. Jews no longer have the right to vote.1938On Kristallnacht, the 'Night of Broken Glass,' Nazis terrorized Jews throughout Germany and Austria - 30,000 Jews are arrested.Jews must carry id cards and Jewish passports are marked with a "J."All Jewish children are moved to Jewish schools.Jewish businesses are shut down; they must sell businesses and hand over securities and jewels.1939Germany takes over Czechoslovakia and invades Poland, and World War II begins as Britain and France declare war on Germany.Hitler orders that Jews must follow curfews; Jews must turn in radios to the police; Jews must wear yellow stars of David.1940Nazis begin deporting German Jews to Poland.Jews are forced into ghettos.Nazis begin the first mass murder of Jews in Poland. Jews are put into concentration camps.Name: _______________________________Date: ________________________________Class #: _____1941Jews throughout Western Europe are forced into ghettos.1942Nazi officials discuss the 'Final Solution' - their plan to kill all European Jews - to the government officials.Jews are forbidden to: subscribe to newspapers; keep dogs, cats, birds, etc; keep electrical equipment including typewriters; own bicycles; buy meat, eggs, or mild; use public transportation; attend school.1943About 80 percent of the Jews who would die in the Holocaust have already been murdered.1944Hitler takes over Hungary and begins deporting 12,000 Hungarian Jews each day to Auschwitz where they are murdered.1945Hitler is defeated and World War II ends in Europe. The Holocaust is over and the death camps are emptied.Q #1: Is this document a primary or secondary source? _________________How do you know? ___________________________________________________Q #2: The events on the timeline are written in ____________________ order?Q #3: World War II starts in ________ and ends in ________. Q#4: Identify one event from the timeline as a CAUSE and another event as an EFFECT. CAUSE: _____________________________________________________________EFFECT: ____________________________________________________________DOCUMENT #2 MAP of CONCENTRATION CAMPQ #1: Is this document a primary or secondary source? _________________How do you know? ___________________________________________________Q #2: What was the purpose of this concentration camp? ________________-142875540385DOCUMENT #3BIOGRAPHY OF ADOLF HITLERQUICK FACTSNAME:?Adolf HitlerOCCUPATION:?Military Leader,?DictatorBIRTH DATE:?c.?April 20,?1889DEATH DATE:?April 30, 1945PLACE OF BIRTH:?Braunau am Inn, AustriaPLACE OF DEATH:?Berlin, GermanyBorn April 20, 1889, Braunau am Inn, Austria, Adolf Hitler was leader of the Nazi Party 1920-1921 and Fuehrer of Germany 1933-1945. His rise to power began when German president Hindenburg appointed him chancellor of a Nazi in 1932. During World War II, Hitler orchestrated the Nazi's Holocaust under the Third Reich. He died of possible suicide in 1945 in the wake of Germany's defeat.00DOCUMENT #3BIOGRAPHY OF ADOLF HITLERQUICK FACTSNAME:?Adolf HitlerOCCUPATION:?Military Leader,?DictatorBIRTH DATE:?c.?April 20,?1889DEATH DATE:?April 30, 1945PLACE OF BIRTH:?Braunau am Inn, AustriaPLACE OF DEATH:?Berlin, GermanyBorn April 20, 1889, Braunau am Inn, Austria, Adolf Hitler was leader of the Nazi Party 1920-1921 and Fuehrer of Germany 1933-1945. His rise to power began when German president Hindenburg appointed him chancellor of a Nazi in 1932. During World War II, Hitler orchestrated the Nazi's Holocaust under the Third Reich. He died of possible suicide in 1945 in the wake of Germany's defeat.____________________________________________________________________Q #1: Is this document a primary or secondary source? _________________How do you know? ___________________________________________________Q #2: Why do you believe Hitler committed suicide? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________DOCUMENT #4Before being killed, the Jews had all of their belongings taken from them.Q #1: Is this document a primary or secondary source? _________________How do you know? ___________________________________________________Q #2: What can you infer about this picture? Write a 2-3 sentence caption. _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________DOCUMENT #5 JEWISH ID BADGES0254000 Q #1: Is this document a primary or sec secondary source? ____________________ How do you know? ____________________ ________________________________________3429035687000Q #2: What was the purpose of Identification badges?____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Q #3: Based on this picture, what can you predict future of these two children would be like?________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________DOCUMENT #6: Testimony of Nazi officer Erich Fuchs, discussing what she witnessed at a concentration camp.If my memory serves me right, about thirty to forty women were gassed in one gas chamber. The Jewish women were forced to undress in an open place close to the gas chamber, and were driven into the gas chamber by the above mentioned SS members and the Ukrainian auxiliaries. When the women were shut up in the gas chamber I and Bolender set the motor in motion. The motor functioned first in neutral. Both of us stood by the motor and switched from "Neutral" (Freiauspuff) to "Cell" (Zelle), so that the gas was conveyed to the chamber. At the suggestion of the chemist, I fixed the motor on a definite speed so that it was unnecessary henceforth to press on the gas. About ten minutes later the thirty to forty women were dead.Q #1: Is this document a primary or secondary source? ___________________________How do you know? _________________________________________________________Q #2: What point of view is this document written from? _________________________Q #3: In your own words, summarize what Erich Fuchs describes in the passage above.________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________DOCUMENT #7: Excerpt from a textbookIn 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that Nazi Germany would occupy or influence during World War II. By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators [allies] had killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the "Final Solution," the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe. Although Jews---whom the Nazis deemed [considered] a danger to Germany---were the primary victims of Nazi racism, other victims included some 200,000 Gypsies, and at least 200,000 mentally or physically disabled Germans.Q #1: Is this document a primary or secondary source? ___________________________How do you know? _________________________________________________________Q #2: How many Jews were there in Europe in 1933? _______________How many of those Jews were killed during the Holocaust? ____________Q #3: What was the “Final Solution”? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Q #4: What other groups did the Nazis target? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________DOCUMENT #8: Life in the Warsaw Ghetto by Emanuel Ringelblum Smuggling began at the very moment that the Jewish area of residence was established; its inhabitants were forced to live on 180 grams of bread a day, 220 grams of sugar a month, 1 kg. of jam and 1 kg. of honey, etc. It was calculated that the officially supplied rations did not cover even 10 percent of the normal requirements. If one had wanted really to restrict oneself to the official rations then the entire population of the ghetto would have had to die of hunger in a very short time.... The German authorities did everything to seal off the ghetto hermetically and not to allow in a single gram of food. A wall was put up around the ghetto on all sides that did not leave a single millimeter of open space.... They fixed barbed wire and broken glass to the top of the wall. Q #1: Is this document a primary or secondary source? ___________________________How do you know? _________________________________________________________Q #2: Based on the description above, how would you describe life in the ghetto? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Q #3: Why did Jews have to smuggle food into the ghetto? _________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ................
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