Directions:
You will create a Power Point answering the following questions and researching the links provided.
You will work in groups of threes. Divide the assignment equally. You will be graded on your individual work.
You will create three artifacts pertaining to any topic of the Holocaust that you were assigned. This means each person in the group must create an artifact. It may be a model of one of the camps, a collage, an editorial, a poem of your creation portraying one of the Holocaust victims, etc. Go to this web page for more ideas.
Finally, in small groups you will problem solve: "What can be done to stop genocide."
The Holocaust:
Pre-project Questionnaire:
Assessing and Defining Responsibility
“How did Hitler kill millions of people?” Who was responsible?
Answer the following questions:
Define genocide.
How could a gang of unemployed soldiers in 1919, become the legal government of Germany by 1933? Assess the domestic and worldwide conditions that influenced Germany after World War I and contributed to the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.
Describe the Nazification process.
Explain the purpose of Ghettos under Nazi rule. What eventually happened to the Jews in the Ghettos?
What was the final solution?
Describe the conditions of the camp and the prisoners.
Explain the various ways Jews resisted the Nazis.
Who were the people sent to the concentration camps? Explain the reason why each group was sent.
How could the Nazis make the Holocaust happen?
Who were the bystanders? Explain Reverend Martin Niemöller's poem.
Explain unarmed and armed resistance.
Who were the rescuers? In what ways did they help?
Describe how the camps were liberated.
Describe the conditions of the concentration camps including how people were processed into the camp system. Use text from survivor memoirs.
What widely differing reactions to freedom did liberators encounter among the survivors in the crucial days that followed liberation?
What harsh realities and strictly limited options ultimately confronted the survivors of the Holocaust?
From personal stories of liberators and survivors, what can be learned about the importance of (a) human action, (b) human rights, and (c) the human spirit?
What event would have to occur in your life that would convince you to leave everything and go to a foreign country?
How were children especially vulnerable in the era of the Holocaust?
Mengele's Children: The Twins of Auschwitz
When did the U.S. first learn of the holocaust? What attempts did the U.S. make to end it during the war? Were the attempts enough?
When did the American press first report on the “Final Solution”?
The United States and the Holocaust
United States Policy Toward Refugees 1941-1952
The United States and the Holocaust
Additional Information:
History Channel
Timeline
Museums
The United States Holocaust Museum
Facts About the Holocaust
Common Student Questions about the Holocaust
The Arts
You will answer the following questions concerning Rwanda. Include them in your Power Point.
In Rwanda:
What group is in power and is doing the killing? Why?
What group is being killed? How many have been killed?
When did the killing start? Has it ended? If so when and why?
Bystanders: Who knew about the genocide in Rwanda? What was done in the past concerning the genocide? What is being done in the present?
How has the genocide affected the country of Rwanda?
Rwanda
History Channel: Rwandan Genocide
Rwanda: The First Conviction for Genocide
Leave None to Tell the Story: Genocide in Rwanda
Rwanda, Through the eyes of children
The Promise of Never Again: The Struggle to Prevent Genocide in the Post-Holocaust Era
Genocide Did Not Stop After the Holocaust
Problem Solving:
What you can do to help stop genocide
The promise of never again was made after the Holocaust. It was a statement that mass murder for the reason of ethnicity, religion, race, etc. should never happen again. Unfortunately it has.
Once your projects are done, you will get into your group to problem solve the following question:
What can be done to stop genocide?
Other Genocides
Sudan
Bosnia
Cambodia
Armenian Genocide (this occurred prior to the Holocaust)