Holocaust Webquest
As you are venturing your way through the following websites, I want you to think about the following essential questions:
1. How does learning about the historical time period help you understand what you read?
2. Can you decide your own destiny?
3. Can one person really make a difference?
1. How does learning about the historical time period help you understand what you read?
2. Can you decide your own destiny?
3. Can one person really make a difference?
Background:
The time period when Adolf Hitler was in power in Germany was a time filled with heartache and many terrible events. There were many reasons why things happened the way they did, and why Hitler and the Nazi party were not stopped sooner. I want you to discover some of the historical setting of the play we are going to read together about Anne Frank.
The time period when Adolf Hitler was in power in Germany was a time filled with heartache and many terrible events. There were many reasons why things happened the way they did, and why Hitler and the Nazi party were not stopped sooner. I want you to discover some of the historical setting of the play we are going to read together about Anne Frank.
Directions: Visit the following sites, and answer all the questions in complete sentences. (Links are in ORANGE.)
What is genocide?
1. Define genocide in your own words?
Hitler comes to power
2. What levels of German society were most drawn to Hitler and Nazi Party?
Nazi Racism
3. What was Hitler’s term for the “master race”? Describe this type of person.
4. What types of German citizens were victims of the Nazi Party?
4. What types of German citizens were victims of the Nazi Party?
Antisemitism
5. Define antisemitism.
6. When did it begin?
7. What other nations treated Jews as scapegoats (blamed them for some trouble)?
6. When did it begin?
7. What other nations treated Jews as scapegoats (blamed them for some trouble)?
The Nuremberg Laws
8. According to the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, how did the German government decide if someone was Jewish?
9. What did the German government require of Jews in German society?
9. What did the German government require of Jews in German society?
Kristallnacht: The Night of Broken Glass
10. What happened on November 9, 1938? What caused the violence?
Refugee Map
11. Many Jews escaped Germany during this time. What countries accepted the most Jewish refugees?
Evian Conference
12. Why did the US not allow entrance to more refugees before WWII?
The Final Solution
13. What was the goal of the final solution?
Ghettos
14. How many ghettos existed in German occupied territories?
15. Describe the largest ghetto.
15. Describe the largest ghetto.
Abe’s story: Kutno Ghetto
16. Describe the picture at the top of the page (black and white sketch).
17. How does this show how people are treated?
17. How does this show how people are treated?
Abe’s story: Conditions Worsen
18. Describe how the conditions worsened.
19. What does Abe do? Where does he go? Why?
19. What does Abe do? Where does he go? Why?
Concentration Camps
20. What were the first Nazi concentration camps?
21. What was the primary purpose of these camps?
21. What was the primary purpose of these camps?
Forced labor Camps
22. Describe what happens to most “workers”?
Death Camps
23. What happened at most of these camps?
Death Marches
24. Why were people forced to go on these “death marches”?
Family Photograph
25. Create your own caption for this photo. Describe what the family is doing and where they are going.
Remember
26. Choose two images from this site. Include their title and a description of each picture.
Liberation
27. When the Soviet soldiers liberated Auschwitz Death Camp, how many shoes did they find?
Survivors
28. Describe one hardship survivors had to face.
A Survivor’s Prayer: A Poem
29. Read the poem, and summarize what it is about in a few sentences.