9.4 The Holocaust - PA-

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9.3E The Holocaust -Practical assingment-

9. The Time of World Wars

When Hitler came to power in 1933, he dreamed of creating a new species of racially pure, fierce and courageous people. Hitler’s racial theories and hatred of Jews eventually led to the mistreatment and mass murder of millions of innocent people.

Hungarian Jewish women and children arrive at Auschwitz in May/June 1944. 

(photo credit: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-N0827-318/CC BY-SA)

The Holocaust

4 fases:

• Discrimination
• Isolation
• Deportation
• Extermination

Discrimination 

The unjust or prejudicial  treatment of different categories of people, especially on the grounds of ethnicity, age, sex, or disability.

Name a modern day example of discrimination

Isolation 

The process or fact of isolating or being isolated.

Name a modern day example of isolation

Deportation

The action of deporting a foreigner or person from a country.

Name a modern day example of deportation

Extermination

Killing, especially of a whole group of people or animals.

Name a modern day example of extermination

Practical assingment

What are you going to do?

First: in groups of 4 you’re going to arrange 8 sources about the Holocaust chronologically.

Second: what sources belong in what fase? And why? Use argumentation to explain your answer.

Practical assingment

How are you going to do it?

You’ll get 8 sources from your teacher. Order these sources from earliest to latest.

Choose either fases 1 and 3 or 2 and 4.

What sources belong in the fases? Use the texts on LessonUp and the internet (historiek.net) to research the events of the sources that you think fit into the fases.

Source 1

Source 2

The Nuremberg racial laws

Source 3

The Night of Broken Glass

Source 4

Driver’s license

German Jews awaited with deepening despair today the placing into effect of two drastic police decrees under which they are prohibited of the right to drive automobiles and are banned from the central quarters of Berlin and all public entertainment centers.

Source 5

The Star of David

Source 6

On 6 and 7 June 1943, two trains with Jewish children left camp Vught. All children under 16 had to leave, their mothers were allowed to come along. It was said that they would go to a special children's camp nearby. But the trains went to the Westerbork transit camp. And then to Sobibor in Poland.

Source 7

Gas chambers of Auswitz-Birkenau

Source 8

Pile of glasses in Auswitz-Birkenau

Discrimination

Isolation

Deportation

Extermination

Source 1

Source 2

Source 3

Source 4

Source 5

Source 6

Source 7

Source 8