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The Holocaust

The Holocaust. What was the Holocaust?. The systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators. Why Study the Holocaust?. Was a major event in world history

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The Holocaust

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  1. The Holocaust

  2. What was the Holocaust? • The systematic, bureaucratic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime and its collaborators.

  3. Why Study the Holocaust? • Was a major event in world history • Understand ramifications of prejudice, racism, stereotyping • Explore the dangers of remaining silent • Demonstrates how a modern nation can use technology to implement destructive policies from social engineering to genocide

  4. Why Study the Holocaust? • Think about use and abuse of power • Think about roles and responsibilities of individuals, organizations, and nations • Gain insight into historical, religious, political, and economic factors that cumulatively resulted in the Holocaust

  5. Denying the Holocaust • Some believe the Holocaust never happened. • Impossible for a group to commit the murder of six million people. • Enormous amount of evidence that it did happen

  6. Dr. Tsvi C. Nussbaum

  7. Poem: The Little Polish Boy • view the Poem: The Little Polish Boy

  8. Us and Them • How we define ourselves often determines how we define others. • Read “The Bear That Wasn’t” • “All the people like us are we, and everyone else is they” • Rudyard Kipling

  9. Prejudice • Define prejudice • Video: Little Things Are Big

  10. The In Group • Video: Eve Shalen: The In Group

  11. Closure • What does the word Holocaust mean to you and why? • Why is it important to study the Holocaust? • Why do some people insist the Holocaust never happened?

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