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Thursday, September 26

Thursday, September 26. Opening Journal : Write about one time when you persevered instead of giving up. What was the final outcome? Agenda: Class discussion: Guilt Historical context: Auschwitz Guided notes Finish reading Chapter 1 Complete guided notes worksheet. Holocaust.

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Thursday, September 26

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  1. Thursday, September 26 • Opening Journal: Write about one time when you persevered instead of giving up. What was the final outcome? • Agenda: • Class discussion: Guilt • Historical context: Auschwitz • Guided notes • Finish reading Chapter 1 • Complete guided notes worksheet

  2. Holocaust “olos” - whole Kaustos/kautos - burnt Destruction or slaughter on a mass scale

  3. Concentration Camps • How did they start? • Exploiting the labor of concentration camp prisoners • Who was imprisoned? • Political prisoners, resistance groups, and groups deemed racially inferior

  4. Auschwitz

  5. Auschwitz Camp Complex • 3 large camps • Auschwitz I • Auschwitz II (Birkenau) • Auschwitz III (Monowitz)

  6. Auschwitz I • Administrative • Prisoners

  7. Auschwitz II - Birkenau • Labor • Extermination

  8. Auschwitz III - Monowitz • Labor camp • Manufacturing synthetic materials

  9. Daily Life - Housing • Barracks • No windows • No protection from heat or cold • No bathrooms, only a bucket

  10. Daily Life - Food • Watery soup with rotten vegetables (no meat) • Few ounces of bread • A bit of margarine, tea, or a bitter drink resembling coffee • Dehydration, hunger

  11. Daily Life -Labor • Forced labor inside camp • Examples: • Women sorting prisoner belongings • Forced labor outside of camp • Examples: • Coal mines or rock quarries • Construction • Factories

  12. “Most prisoners at Auschwitz survived only a few weeks or months. Those who were too ill or too weak to work were condemned to death in the gas chambers. Some committed suicide by throwing themselves against the electric wires. Others resembled walking corpses, broken in body and spirit. Yet other inmates were determined to stay alive.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

  13. Tattoos • Prisoners only received tattoos at Auschwitz • Only those who were selected for work received numbers • Used to identify bodies of registered prisoners who had died

  14. Questions?

  15. Conflict • Internal conflict • Mental or emotional struggle that occurs within a character • External conflict • Struggle that occurs between a character and outside forces (could be another character, the environment, etc.)

  16. Steven Springfield – Conditions in the Stutthof Concentration Camp http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/media_oi.php?MediaId=1220

  17. http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/media_oi.php?ModuleId=10007718&MediaId=1188http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/en/media_oi.php?ModuleId=10007718&MediaId=1188 Miso Vogel Describes arrival at Auschwitz

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