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Understanding the Holocaust: Tragic History and Survivors' Stories

Explore the sinister era of the Holocaust and the atrocities faced by victims in concentration camps. Learn about Hitler's targeting of Jews and the liberation of camps. Analyze the impact and ponder ethical questions about intervention.

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Understanding the Holocaust: Tragic History and Survivors' Stories

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  1. Do Now 1) What was the Holocaust? 2) What were some of the ways that Hitler targeted the Jews?

  2. Reminders • News Article Analysis due NOW!

  3. 9.7- Holocaust • Concentration campswere places where millions of ordinary people were enslaved often starved, tortured and killed. • Most camps were located around huge centers of Jewish population- many were in Poland. • Extermination camps or death camps had the primary function of systematically killing people by gassing.

  4. Prisoners • The largest numbers of prisoners were Jews and Russian prisoners of war. • In most camps, prisoners were forced to wear identifying overalls with colored badges.

  5. Treatment • Many of the prisoners died in the concentration camps through deliberate maltreatment, disease, starvation, and overwork, or were executed as unfit for labor. • Prisoners were transported in inhumane conditions by rail freight cars, in which many died before reaching their destination.

  6. Liberation • The camps were liberated by the Allied and Soviet forces between 1944 and 1945. • Why did the US not do anything to liberate the camps before 1944?

  7. Should the` US have bombed the concentration camp Auschwitz? • 1) Read the question, then read the text. • 2) Complete the graphic organizer • 3) Complete the open-ended question

  8. Homework

  9. Exit Ticket • 1) What were the conditions in the concentration camps like? • 2) Do you think that the US should have tried to bomb the concentration camps?

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