The Holocaust

Plot

Students will quickly realize the tragedy of overwhelming moral magnitude and great historical significance that was the Holocaust. The hands-on historical documents are powerful: the chronology from Yad Vashem; Reich Citizenship Law stripping Jews of all rights; photos of the horrors of the Holocaust; Hitler’s directive by Bormann on the “Jewish Question”; extraordinary maps labeled with countries and numbers of Jews to go to death camps. This Jackdaw examines the evolution of prejudice from origin to its modern, fatal culmination in the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.” Historian: William Phillips. The contents of this Jackdaw feature:

Broadsheets
The Origins of Antisemitism
Hitler and the Rise of Nazism
The Final Solution
The Response of the Free World
The Legacy of the Holocaust
Historical Documents
Chronology of the Holocaust, 1933-1945.
Page of Der Sturmer, radical antisemitic tabolid, 1938.
Reinhard Heydrich directive of 21 September 1939.
Letter from Herman Goering to Reinhard Heydrich on the “Final Solution of the Jewish Question.”
Reich Citizenship Law proclaimed by Hitler, Sep. 1935.
Newspaper accounts of Nazi terror, 1938-1942.
Portions of the Wannsee protocol, Jan. 1942.
Hitler’s secret directive signed by Martin Bormann, July 1943, banning discussion of the “Jewish Question.”
Five maps, “The Geography of Genocide,” 1918 to 1945.
Photo and invoice for Zyklon B gas used in death camps.
Aerial photograph of Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
Collection of photographs on the horrors of the Holocaust.
Study Guide / Lesson Plans – Reproducible Activities