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Auschwitz

Auschwitz. The Gate to Hell. By: Morgan Robinson. Students. Juniors and Seniors Educational Background of World War II. Environment. Individually or in a group of two. A room where talking is expectable. Objective. To understand and visualize the severity of WWII.

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Auschwitz

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  1. Auschwitz The Gate to Hell By: Morgan Robinson

  2. Students • Juniors and Seniors • Educational Background of World War II

  3. Environment • Individually or in a group of two. • A room where talking is expectable.

  4. Objective • To understand and visualize the severity of WWII. • To read and see real life example of how Auschwitz had an impact on individual lives and the world. • Be able to identify names and faces of important holocaust heroes. • To identify Auschwitz on a map. • To remember important facts and numbers from Auschwitz.

  5. Motivation • Answer the questions and activities completely because they will be turned in for a grade. • To pay attention because there will be a quiz at the end. • To pay attention because the information may be on future tests.

  6. Auschwitz The Gate to Hell Inside Auschwitz Quiz

  7. InsideAuschwitz MainMenu Background Children A Hero Quiz

  8. DIRECTIONS • Carefully read each slide • Click the button in the lower right corner to continue the activity. • Or click the home button to return to Inside Auschwitz Main Menu.

  9. Background • Auschwitz played a central role in the “final solution,” the Nazi plan to murder the Jews of Europe. • The Nazi deported Jews from every European country to Auschwitz. • In all, 1.1 million Jews died at the Auschwitz camps. Arrival and selections at Auschwitz.

  10. Background Many people have heard of Auschwitz, but they have no idea where it is actually located or the background behind it. Let’s learn more about Auschwitz. Pay Attention… There will be a quiz at the end!

  11. Background The Nazis established three main locations in occupied Poland. Auschwitz I Concentration Camp Auschwitz II Killing Center* Auschwitz III Forced-Labor Camp *Auschwitz II – Birkenau, Largest Nazi extermination camp

  12. Map of Auschwitz Directions: Choose the correct letter for Auschwitz II. A C B Arial view of all three Auschwitz camps

  13. Map of Auschwitz Correct! Auschwitz II Arial view of all three Auschwitz camps

  14. Map of Auschwitz Better Luck Next Time! You chose Auschwitz I Please Try Again

  15. Map of Auschwitz Better Luck Next Time! You chose Auschwitz III Please Try Again

  16. Background New arrivals underwent “selection.” The Nazi police sent the victims to the forced-work camp or to the death camp at Auschwitz 11. Arrival and selections at Auschwitz

  17. Background During 1943 and 1944, four large gas chambers and creameries operated almost continuously at Auschwitz II. Creameries at Auschwitz II killed up to 6,000 a day MAP

  18. Map of Auschwitz II Arial view of Auschwitz II

  19. Background • In late 1944, the Nazi police forced the prisoners to dynamite the remaining gas chambers to destroy evidence of mass killings. • As the Soviets advanced toward Auschwitz, the Nazi police forced 60,000 prisoners on a death march. • When the Soviets liberated Auschwitz, only thousands remained alive. Survivors Burying the Dead MAP

  20. Map of Death March Forced death marches and evacuations

  21. DIRECTIONS • Carefully read each slide • Click the button in the lower right corner to continue the activity. • Or click the home button to return to Inside Auschwitz Main Menu.

  22. Children Many people know that children were also killed at Auschwitz and other placed during WW II. Let’s take a closer look at the life of the children during the Holocaust and the fear they lived with. Pay Attention There Will Be A Quiz!

  23. Fear Jewish children at Auschwitz had an overwhelming and constant sense of fear every day.

  24. Children The Children's Home in Izieu, all with the hope that the Nazis would not find them.

  25. Activity Directions: Answer the question below. Explain your answer with at least five sentences. Make sure to turn your paper into the teacher at the end of class. Question: Would you take your children with you to Auschwitz or leave them in a group home knowing that you may never see them again?

  26. A Letter From a Son Little Georgy Halpern, who was being sheltered with other children in The Children's Home, hoped that the Nazis would not find them. The little boy wrote to his mother: "Chere Maman, I send you 10,000,000,000 kisses. Your son who loves you very much. There are big mountains and the village is very pretty. There are a lot of farms and we look for blackberries and raspberries and white mulberries. I hug you with all my heart. Georgy."

  27. A Letter to God Liliane Gerenstein wrote a letter to God before she was sent to her death: "God? How good You are, how kind and if one had to count the number of goodnesses and kindnesses You have done, one would never finish.God? It is You who command. It is You who are justice, it is You who reward the good and punish the evil.God? It is thanks to You that I had a beautiful life before, that I was spoiled, that I had  lovely things that others do not have.God? After that, I ask You one thing only: Make my parents come back, my poor parents protect them (even more than You protect me) so that I can see them again as soon as possible.Make them come back again. Ah! I had such a good mother and such a good father! I have such faith in You and I thank You in advance.

  28. Activity Directions: On the same paper that you wrote your other response, answer to the following question. Must be at least five sentences. • Imagine that you are a child at the children’s home. Think of all the emotions swirling inside you. Answer the following questions as if you were a child at the home. • Who would you write your letter to? • What would you write if you knew it was your last letter?

  29. Children On the morning of April 6, 1944, as the children all settled down in the refectory to drink hot chocolate, the Nazis raided the Home, throwing the crying and terrified children on to the trucks like sacks of potatoes. The children were all deported to Auschwitz and killed …

  30. Final Steps Some of the children from the home, took their unaware last steps to the gas chamber at Auschwitz II.

  31. Suffering The annihilation was near complete: ten percent of Jewish children survived in Nazi-occupied Europe. Children were not spared any of the suffering and torture meant for the adults.

  32. DIRECTIONS • Carefully read each slide • Click the button in the lower right corner to continue the activity. • Or click the home button to return to Inside Auschwitz Main Menu.

  33. A Hero Many people have heard of a man named Schindler because of Schindler’s List; however, many people do not know the real Schindler . Pay Attention There Will Be A Quiz

  34. A Hero This is a true story of one remarkable man who outwitted Hitler and the Nazis to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other during World War II.

  35. A Hero

  36. A Hero In the story of Oscar Schindler, who surfaced from the chaos of madness, spent millions bribing and paying off the Nazi police and eventually risked his life to rescue 1200 Jews in the shadow of Auschwitz. Oskar Schindler's factory at Auschwitz II

  37. Some Math… Click the correct answer to complete the equation Auschwitz III Birkenau Schindler

  38. Some Math… No Solution! Try Again! Please Try Again

  39. Correct Correct Solution: Money & Bribery + Schindler = Saved Jews

  40. A Hero Schindler was credited with saving about 1,200 Jews at Auschwitz during the Holocaust.

  41. In His Own Words “I hated the brutality, the sadism, and the insanity o f Nazism. I just couldn’t stand by and see people destroyed. I did what I could , what I had to do, what my conscience told me I must do. That’s all there is to it. Really, nothing more.” ~Schindler, 1947 Survivors of Auschwitz

  42. Activity Directions: Write at least five sentences to the following question. With knowing all the trouble and consequences Schindler fought against, would you have saved the prisoners from death?

  43. Quiz Time Begin Quiz

  44. DIRECTIONS • Carefully read each question. • Click the correct answer. • Click the button in the lower right corner to continue the activity. • Or click the home button to return to Inside Auschwitz Main Menu.

  45. Question #1 Which Auschwitz camp did most of the killings occur? Auschwitz I Auschwitz II Directions Auschwitz III Start Over

  46. Question #1 Try Again! Auschwitz I was the concentration camp Directions Please Try Again Start Over

  47. Question #1 Correct! Way to Pay Attention! Directions Next Question! Start Over

  48. Question #1 Better Luck Next Time! Auschwitz III was the forced labor camp. Directions Please Try Again Start Over

  49. Question #2 How many Jews died on the death march? 30,000 70,000 Directions 60,000 Start Over

  50. Question #2 I’m Sorry…Try Again! Not quite the right number! Directions Please Try Again Start Over

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