HOLOCAUST UNIT INFORMATION AND GUIDELINES

2007-2008 School Year

For the next several weeks we will be actively participating in our Holocaust unit. The Holocaust is one of the major events in all of human history. With more understanding of the Holocaust, we hope such an unfortunate tragedy will never happen again.

During this unit the following activities will be accomplished:

1. View the video “Forget Me Not.”

2. Library research-Answer a list of Holocaust questions and vocabulary.

3. Do research for information for a final project.

4. Give an oral presentation to the class.

5. Read “The Diary of Anne Frank” from our literature book.

6. Complete journal entries from your reading.

7. Complete any additional activities.

8. Listen to Mr. Martin Lowenberg, a Holocaust survivor, on May 15 during the school day. This will be a dress up day.

9. Attend a dinner and Holocaust program and visit all of the students’ displays on the evening of May 15. The dinner will being at 5:30, and the program will begin at 7:00. You are expected to attend and dress up for the evening

Final Project Information:

Your final project will consist of a project display board and a research paper. Your report should be a minimum of two pages long, double spaced with 12 point font. You must include a works cited page done in MLA style. You must use a minimum of two authoritative sources. Reports can be attached to the display board. Pictures should be included. Additional material (models, poetry, newsletters, and brochures) may be included. This must be your very best work. Projects will be on display for parents and community members. You may work in pairs, or you may work alone, but each student does his or her own research paper. If you work with a partner, you will get a group grade and each group member will receive the same grade. You must have a project display board. These are available from the library for $5.00. Boards will go on sale on April 7. You will choose your topic from the following list. Groups may not have the same topic. If necessary, we will draw straws.

Topics to choose from:

1.Ghettos

2.Concentration Camp-Auschwitz-Birkenau

3.Concentration Camp-Bergen-Belsen

4.Concentration Camp-Dachau

5.Concentration Camp-Sobibor

6.Concentration Camp-Treblinka

7.Concentration Camp-Theresienstat

8.Concentration Camp-Buchenwald

9. Survivors

10. Liberators/Rescuers/Resisters

11. Starvation-lack of food and nutrition

12.World War II- Important Leaders

13.World War II-Important Events

14. Pearl Harbor

15. Holocaust War Criminals

16. Lessons learned from the Holocaust

17. Read NIGHT and some other true account

18.Voices of the Holocaust

19. Anne Frank

20. Tolerance/Intolerance

21. Children of the Holocaust

22. Nuremberg Trials

23. What was the Final Solution?

24. Hate Groups

25. Nazi Beliefs

26. Kristallnacht-night of the broken glass

27. Adolf Hitler

28. Liberation

29.Boxcar Horrors

30.Acts of Courage

31.Olympics of 1936

32.Daily Life in the Camps

33.Star of David

34.Doctors of the Holocaust

35. Medical Experiments of the Holocaust

36.The Story of Raoul Wallenberg

37.Death Marches

38.Kindertransport

39.Voyage of the St. Louis

40.Nuremberg Laws 1935-1938

41.Jewish Religion

42.Artwork, Stolen Art, Poetry, Literature, and Music of the Holocaust

43.Museums and Memorials

44.Oskar Schindler

45.History of the Swastika

46.Pogroms

47.Mengele: Angel of Death

48.Gestapo

49.Nazi Propaganda

50. Elie Wiesel

51. Adolf Eichmann

52. Simon Wiesenthal

53. Why was the world silent?

54. The Japanese American Interment Camp

55. Displaced Persons and Refugees

56. Killing Squads (Einsatzgruppen)

57. Miep Gies

Display Board:

1. Choose topic

2. Research topic

3. Write Research Paper

4. Design layout of display-have design approved before beginning

5. Type all captions and have approved before putting on display board

6. Build display-must have a title

7. Design any extra handouts (newsletters, brochures, etc) and print duplicates for placement with display

Newsletter: Optional

Compose a newsletter on Microsoft publisher that is historically accurate. You must have a minimum of three articles, with a creative title and an appropriate date. See my example.

Extra:

You may also design a brochure as an additional item.

Websites:

http://www.graceproducts.com

Click on Anne Frank” Forget Me Not” Internet Cards

Good for Children of the Holocaust

http://www.ushmm.org/topics/

http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/people/rescuer.htm

http://wiesenthal.com

http://remember.org

http://remember.org/camps

http://www.channels.nl/amsterdam/annefran.html