SUMMERY OF LESSONS 1-10

STUDYING THE HOLOCAUST

• 2 types of catastrophes -human and -natural
• Learned about "the night of the broken glass"
• Talked about propaganda
• Primary and secondary sources

ANTI-SEMITISM

• Anti-semitism is the hatred of jews
• It did nit begin when Hitler came to power
• Taught racism in schools
• More propaganda
• Depicted what they thought every jew looked like

SUMMERY OF NAZI GERMANY

• Treaty if versalies
• Holocaust was a choice
• Concentration camps and bystanders
• Pyramid of hate
• Religious places as frequent targets

THE GHETTOS

• WHat exactly ghettos were and why jews couldn't escape
• We talked about the lodz ghetto
• Rules and regulations in the ghetto
• Conditions and how it limited jewish life

THE FINAL SOLUTION

• The systematic mass murder of jews
• Einstagruppren
• The difference between Perpatrators and colorblrators
• How mews attempted to maintain their humantity in camps

JEWISH RESISTANCE

• Resistance when establishing the ghettos all the way through the final solution
• Risks if resisting nazi domination
• Spiritual resistance, armed resistance

RESCUERS AND NON-JEWISH RESISTANCE

• Dangers of hiding children
• Got to see indifference in the face of injustice
• Types of resuce
• Obstacles non jews had to face when helping jews

SURVIVORS AND LIBERATORS

• Learned about the status of jewish survivors
• Roles of the liberators
• How people felt when someone passed
• How someone was a part of the holocaust/ experiments ect

SURVIVORS AND LIBERATORS

• Issues of responsibility and guilt
• War crime trials following the war
• Holocaust denial and how it is a form of anti-semitism
• Denial and revisionism

THE CHILDREN

• The effects of the holocaust on the most innocent victims
• Post holocaust genocide
• Analyzed childrens rights violations
• Thought about if we thought something like the holocaust could happen again