THE HOLOCAUST

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Target Audience•World History: 7th – 9th Grade•Preparing for the Holocaust Test

Learner Description•This interactive presentation is designed for students who want some extra preparation for the upcoming exam•Mostly urban students•Students families range from middle class to poverty stricken•Not all students have computer access, so class time will be provided•This presentation must develop critical thinking skills that prepare students for college work

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Learning Environment•This will be done during class time in a computer lab a week before the Holocaust test

Benefits•Better understanding of the basics of the Holocaust•Will better understand test material

Challenges•Critical thinking•Repetition of facts

Insights•Not take the student’s too long to complete•Enough to give solid base for the test

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Instructional Objectives

Objective 1•Given information about events students will be able to identify the name of the event with 100% accuracy.

Objective 2•Given basic facts about a person students will be able to identify the person with 100% accuracy.

Objective 3•Students will be able to identify basic details of the Holocaust with 100% accuracy when given comprehension questions.

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ORIENTATIONNow that we have finished our unit over the Holocaust we are preparing for the test that follows. This interactive test preparation will improve your knowledge and understanding of the Holocaust so that you can prepare and ace your test!

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The Beginning

of the

Persecution

The Big Picture

What IS the Holocaust

Concentration CampsQuiz

What IS the Holocaust?•The Holocaust started in the year 1933 and was lead by Adolf Hitler•The Holocaust was the systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of approximately six million Jews by the Nazi regime

•The term "Holocaust," originally from the Greek word "holokauston" which means "sacrifice by fire," refers to the Nazi's persecution and planned slaughter of the Jewish people

What IS the Holocaust? Continued…

•Nazi’s did not only go after Jewish people, they also targeted Gypsies, homosexuals, people with disabilities, and Jehovah’s Witnesses. •Hitler wanted to terminate all Jews and create an Aryan nation

What IS the Holocaust? Continued…

The BIG Picture•It is estimated that during the Holocaust 11 million people were killed. 6 million of those people were Jews•The Nazi’s killed approximately two-thirds of all Jews living in Europe

The Beginning of the Persecution•On April 1, 1933, the Nazis

initiated their first action against Jews by boycotting all Jewish-run businesses•On September 15, 1935, the Nuremberg Laws were issued and began to exclude Jews from public life

•After WWII started, the Nazi’s ordered all Jewish people to wear a yellow Star of David on their clothing so they could be easily recognized and as a result targeted

Persecution Continued…

Persecution Continued…•The night of November 9-10, 1938, Nazis incited a riot against Jews in Austria and Germany in what has been termed, "Kristallnacht,” which means “Night of Broken Glass”

•This night of violence included the pillaging and burning of synagogues, breaking the windows of Jewish-owned businesses, the looting of these stores, and many Jews were physically attacked. Also, approximately 30,000 Jews were arrested and sent to concentration camps

Persecution Continued…

•Jews (among the others that were targeted by the Nazi Regime) were forced to live in ghettos and/or got transferred to a concentration camp where they were put to death or worked to death

Persecution Continued…

Concentration Camps•There were many different types of concentration camps: labor camps, extermination camps, transit camps, and prisoner-of-war camps•Life within Nazi concentration camps were atrocious and inhumane

•One of the first concentration camps was Dachau, which opened on March 20, 1933; and one of the most famous and largest concentration camps was Auschwitz which opened in May of 1940

Concentration Camps Continued…

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1. What year did the Holocaust start?

a.

b.

c.

d.

1933

1941

1960

1952

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2. Who was the leader of the Nazi party?

a.

b.

c.

d.

Stalin

Mussolini

Hitler

Lenin

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3. The term Holocaust is originally from the ____ word “holokauston” which means

“sacrifice by fire.”

a.

b.

c.

d.

French

Russian

Greek

Polish

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4. What group of people did the Nazi’s NOT target?

a.

b.

c.

d.

Gypsies

Aryans

Homosexuals

Jews

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5. How many people were estimated to be killed during the Holocaust?

a.

b.

c.

d.

31 million

22 million

6 million

11 million

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6. What does the term “Kristallnacht” mean?

a.

b.

c.

d.

Night of Broken Glass

Kill the Jews

Nazi Power

Night of Burning

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7. When were the Nuremberg Laws passed?

a.

b.

c.

d.

January 23, 1937

May 11, 1935

September 15, 1935

April 9, 1940

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8. What was the name of one of the first concentration camps of the Holocaust?

a.

b.

c.

d.

Auschwitz

Dachau

Flossenburg

Drancy

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Resources• www.history1900s.about.com/od/holocaust/a/holocaustfacts.htm•www.ushmm.org•www.holocausteducation.dk/holocaust/hvadhvemhvor.asp•http://www.m1-garand.com/MapPage.htm•http://www.martinfrost.ws/htmlfiles/holocaust.html•http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Star_of_David•http://www.wallpaperseek.com/blog/top-5-3d-wallpapers/ •http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws •http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristallnacht •http://fp3007.k12.sd.us/Event/Page6.htm •http://www.scrapbookpages.com/poland/lublin/lublin01.html •http://www.scrapbookpages.com/dachauscrapbook/•http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler