Audience

1. Audience • 5th and 6th graders • Middle class community • Most students don’t have much prior knowledge about the Holocaust • This is an introductory presentation to the Holocaust

2. Environment • The whole class will be in the computer lab • Individually, each student will go through the presentation at his or her own computer with headphones on.

3. Objectives Students will have ten minutes to take a short quiz by himself/herself to show that they have learned the material by getting eight out of ten questions correct.

4. People of the Holocaust Kayla Loveless START

5. In this tutorial you will have to use many buttons. Here is what each button means: Main Menu Next Slide Previous Slide M Now it is time to begin!

6. Did you know? • Six million Jews were killed • Five million other people were killed • Many people resisted the Nazis and risked their own lives in the process Click here if you want to learn more!

7. Main Menu Victims Resisters Liberators Click on the names to learn more! Quiz

8. Victims Jews Political Prisoners Jehovah’s Witnesses Homosexuals Gypsies In the concentration camps every person had to wear a colored triangle assigned by the Nazis to specify what group they belonged to. Click on the triangles to learn more! M Quiz

9. Jews • Anti-Semitism (opposition to and discrimination against Jews) began in the 1800’s • Nazis boycotted Jewish businesses and excluded Jews from certain professions M Victims

10. The Nuremberg Laws created very detailed Nazi definitions of who was Jewish • Deprived Jews of their rights as citizens • Jews were banned from cinemas, theaters, swimming pools, and resorts M Victims

11. Political Prisoners • People who resisted the Nazi regime • Communists • Socialists • Members of trade unions • Dachau- main concentration camp for them M Victims

12. Jehovah’s Witnesses • Members of a restorationist religious movement • Banned by national law in 1935 • Arrested and sent to concentration camps • Freed from camps if they signed documents renouncing their religious beliefs. • 2,500 to 5,000 died in concentration camps M Victims

13. Homosexuals • In 1933 a state policy of persecution against homosexuals began in Germany • Publications by and about homosexuals were prohibited and burned • A criminal code relating to homosexuality was amended and made harsher M Victims

14. German police raided gay clubs and made arrests • 5,000-15,000 were sent to concentration camps • At the camps they were mistreated and tormented by other inmates M Victims

15. Gypsies • Certain ethnic minorities and “travelers” • Deprived of Civil Rights • In 1936, a Central Office to “Combat the Gypsy Nuisance” opened in Munich • By 1938, Gypsies were being deported to concentration camps • Hundreds of thousands died in the camps M Victims

16. Resisters Armed Resistance Unarmed Resistance M Quiz

17. Armed Resistance • Joseph Stalin established an underground movement in occupied territories to fight the enemy. M Resisters

18. Partisans interfered with enemy communication • Sabotaged transportation links • Cut telephone, telegraph, and electrical lines • Destroyed power stations A train that was sabotaged by French resistance fighters. M Resisters

19. Armed Resistance If you would like to hear a personal story of a woman who use armed resistance click here M Resisters

20. Unarmed Resistance • Food was smuggled into the ghettos to help people stay alive. • Jews worked slowly or destructively in labor factories • Started fires • Purposely damaged equipment Children smuggling food into the ghettos M Resisters

21. Unarmed Resistance The White Rose was a resistance group in Nazi Germany, consisting of several students and a teacher from the University of Munich. Many were arrested and executed for handing out leaflets that opposed the Nazis. White Rose Leaflets Click here if you want to learn more! M Resisters

22. Liberators • The Allied troops moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Nazi Germany. • In the process, they liberated many of the concentration camps, where they found prisoners suffering from starvation and disease. M

23. Liberators • Soviet Forces • British Forces • U.S. Forces Click on the names to find out more! M Quiz

24. Soviet Forces • Majdanek • Belzec • Sobibor • Auschwitz • Stutthof • Sachsenhausen • Ravensbrueck Liberated: Prisoners of Auschwitz greet their liberators M Liberators

25. Soviet Forces If you would like to hear the personal story of a man who was liberated by the Soviet forces in the Auschwitz camp click here! Liberated inmates behind the barbed wire fence M Liberators

26. British Forces Liberated: • Neuengamme • Bergen-Belsen Bergen-Belsen at liberation M Liberators

27. British Forces If you would like to hear the personal story of a man who was liberated by the British forces in the Bergen-Belsen camp click here! The gruesome picture of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp as discovered by British troops on April 20, 1945. M Liberators

28. U.S. Forces Liberated: • Buchenwald • Dora-Mittelbau • Flossenbuerg • Dachau • Mauthausen American soldiers escort children survivors of Buchenwald out of the main gate of the camp M Liberators

29. U.S. Forces If you would like to hear the personal story of a man who was liberated by the United States forces in the Dachau concentration camp click here! Dachau Inmates at Liberation M Liberators

30. Before you take the quiz, get into groups of three or four and discuss what you learned! Discussion Questions

31. What did you find most interesting? • What was the most shocking thing you learned? • Why was the Holocaust wrong? • Do you think a Holocaust could happen now? Why or why not? • What can we do as a society and as individuals to prevent a Holocaust from happening again? Now, it is time to take the quiz!

32. 1. Who established an underground movement to fight the enemy? Dwight Eisenhower Winston Churchill Benito Mussolini Joseph Stalin a b c d

33. GREAT JOB! Now go on to the next question!

34. Sorry, your answer is incorrect. Now go on to the next question! The correct answer is “Joseph Stalin”.

35. 2. Who was freed if they signed documents renouncing their faith? Christians Jehovah’s Witnesses Muslims Jews a b c d

36. GREAT JOB! Now go on to the next question!

37. Sorry, your answer is incorrect. Now go on to the next question! The correct answer is “Jehovah’s Witnesses”.

38. 3. Who were the Nuremberg Laws established for? Jews Homosexuals Christians Muslims a b c d

39. GREAT JOB! Now go on to the next question!

40. Sorry, your answer is incorrect. Now go on to the next question! The correct answer is “Jews”.

41. 4. What victims wore a pink triangle on their clothing? Gypsies Jews Political Prisoners Homosexuals a b c d

42. GREAT JOB! Now go on to the next question!

43. Sorry, your answer is incorrect. Now go on to the next question! The correct answer is “Homosexuals”.

44. 5. Which forces did not help liberate concentration camps? United States Polish Soviet British a b c d

45. GREAT JOB! Now go on to the next question!

46. Sorry, your answer is incorrect. Now go on to the next question! The correct answer is “Polish”.

47. 6. Who established an underground economy with illegal mills and workshops? Poles Gypsies Slavs Jews a b c d

48. GREAT JOB! Now go on to the next question!

49. Sorry, your answer is incorrect. Now go on to the next question! The correct answer is “Jews”.

50. 7. What victims were mistreated and tormented by other inmates? Homosexuals Gypsies Jews Jehovah’s Witnesses a b c d