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Lesson/Activity: Compare and Contrast Different Definitions of the Holocaust

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Lesson/Activity: Compare and Contrast Different Definitions of the Holocaust

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This lesson idea was suggested or mentioned at our conference (sorry, I can't remember if someone already does this with their classes or not), so I made an activity that has students analyzing the language of the definitions from the USHMM, Yad Vashem, and The Imperial War Museum. I haven't had the students do this activity yet as we just started, but it will be one of the first lessons. I find it fascinating myself just seeing all of the differences between the sources - leads to many questions as to why it was defined a certain way by one place and not the other. Feel free to steal if you want!

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Awesome PD read! She also has a google sheet with free tech resources/tools.

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Group photo

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Please help us reflect on and improve the Museum Teacher Fellowship program by answering the following survey questions:

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Americans and the Holocaust Teacher Survey

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Americans and the Holocaust Teacher Survey

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Americans and the Holocaust Teacher Survey

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Below is a short survey that will help the Museum and partners at Facing History and Ourselves to develop classroom teaching resources on the subject of Americans and the Holocaust that best fit your teaching needs and goals. Thank you for sharing your perspective with us!

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Here's an interview I did with Fritz in 2008.

If you search his name in YouTube you will find several other video interviews including from the First Person series.

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https://www.amazon.com/Upon-Head-Goat-Childhood-1939-1944/dp/0374480796

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USHMM Days Of Remembrance- Holocaust History Overview Poster Set

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USHMM Days Of Remembrance- Holocaust History Overview Poster Set

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And other Days of Remembrance resources - https://www.ushmm.org/remember/days-of-remembrance/resources

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Contact Arlene. She is wonderful.
Email: akupietzky@museumoftolerance.com

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Hear and Meet a Holocaust Survivor - Museum of Tolerance | Los Angeles, CA

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The Museum of Tolerance is proud to offer Holocaust survivor talks everyday. These lectures, scheduled multiple times a day, are included in museum admission and are approximately one hour in length. Please inquire at the front desk for the location and times.

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Survivor Testimonies aligned with Specific Topics - GREAT resource 

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Survivor Testimonies aligned with Specific Topics - GREAT resource 

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Great resources from the Holocaust Resource Center in Buffalo for Human Rights and Modern Genocide 

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Great resources from the Holocaust Resource Center in Buffalo for Human Rights and Modern Genocide 

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These lesson plans are intended to raise awareness about contemporary human rights issues and how we can connect them to our past. This website offers educator-reviewed materials that you can click and use tomorrow in your classroom. We encourage you to learn more and get involved, empowering your class to repair the world.

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Connecting the Dots: Genocide in the Modern Age

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Connecting the Dots: Genocide in the Modern Age

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Neat resource and lesson(s) idea using both Holocaust testimony and modern genocide testimony/examples.

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CONNECTING THE DOTS: GENOCIDE IN THE MODERN AGE

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CONNECTING THE DOTS: GENOCIDE IN THE MODERN AGE

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Genocide is a problem that has been facing the human race for many years. After the Holocaust, humanity vowed "never again", but it appears that we have been unable to keep that promise. As a...

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In the USHMM book store

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The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes After

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"The plot provided by the universe was filled with starvation, war and rape. I would not-could not-live in that tale." Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to dis...

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Excellent PD literature to help teachers teach students to use social media in a positive way.

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social leadia: moving students from digital citizenship to digital leadership

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education - effect of technological innovations on

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Social LEADia: Moving Students from Digital Citizenship to Digital Leadership

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How will your students answer when an interviewer asks,"What social media networks are you on, and what will I learn about you if I go there?" Equipping students for their future begins by helping them become digital leaders now. In our networked society, students need to learn how to l...

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Nonfiction story about two pen pals in the 1990's. Feel good story about how one girl changed the life for her pen pal from Zimbabwe. Caitlin will also travel to your school for an author visit or she will Skype with your class. This book helps students see how they can make a difference.

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i will always write back: how one letter changed two lives

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(e) 12+ years; (5) non-fiction; (n) ordinary printed book format; (7) non-character; (9) non tie-in

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biography & autobiography - social activists

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children's / teenage general interest: places & peoples

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teenagers - united states - social conditions

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teenagers - zimbabwe - social conditions

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ya nonfiction about africa; nonfiction books for teens; nonfiction books about pen pals; africa; african; penpal; pen-pal; pen pal; write; writing; friendship; diverse; diversity; nonfiction; memoir; contemporary; letters; homelessness and poverty

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young adult nonfiction / biography & autobiography / social activists

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young adult nonfiction / people & places / africa

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young adult nonfiction / social topics / friendship

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young adult nonfiction / social topics / homelessness & poverty

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young adult nonfiction/biography & autobiography - social activists

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young adult nonfiction/people & places - africa

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young adult nonfiction/social topics - friendship

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young adult nonfiction / biography & autobiography / social activists

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young adult nonfiction / people & places / africa

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young adult nonfiction / social topics / friendship

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young adult nonfiction / social topics / homelessness & poverty

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young adult nonfiction/biography & autobiography - social activists

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young adult nonfiction/people & places - africa

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young adult nonfiction/social topics - friendship

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children's / teenage general interest: places & peoples

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biography & autobiography - social activists

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teenagers - zimbabwe - social conditions

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I Will Always Write Back: How One Letter Changed Two Lives

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The New York Times bestselling true story of an all-American girl and a boy from Zimbabwe and the letter that changed both of their lives forever.It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place. Martin was lucky to even receive a p...

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Humanitarian aid/group

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When the bombs rain down, the White Helmets rush in. Unarmed and neutral they've saved 114,431+ lives and counting. Support them now.

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A MUST USE resource. It is just fabulous. http://watchersofthesky.com/

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A MUST USE resource. It is just fabulous. http://watchersofthesky.com/

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Theatre Production
My shameless advertisement of the play I directed at my school 😊

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"Footsteps of My Father" - Story of Roddie Edmonds

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"Footsteps of My Father" - Story of Roddie Edmonds

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The link to the actual short film isn't up anymore, but it used to be found here:
https://jfr.org/video-library/reunion-2016/
Here's a current article about it:
http://thejewishvoice.com/2018/07/03/footsteps-father-documentary-recognized-best-shorts-film-competition/

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As we explored the second floor, I saw Irene's name on the rescuers wall. This is a fabulous book about a Polish woman who saved 18 Jews. Very raw and a difficult story to read - but very eye-opening.

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in my hands: memories of a holocaust rescuer

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righteous gentiles in the holocaust - poland

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wwii; world war ii; memoir; biography; autobiography; poland; ya; young adult; war; historical; jews; holocaust; holocaust rescuer; ghettos; hiding; bravery; heroism; righteous gentile; catholic; nurse; spy; polish resistance; immigration; israel; yad vashem; holocaust memoir; wwii memoir; nonfiction books for teens; biographies for teens; holocaust books; books for kids age 9 12; books for boys age 9 12; kids books ages 9-12; childrens books by age 9 to 12; books for girls age 9 12; non fiction books for kids age 9 12; gut

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young adult nonfiction / biography & autobiography / historical

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young adult nonfiction / history / holocaust

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young adult nonfiction / social topics / violence

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young adult nonfiction/history - holocaust

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In My Hands: Memories of a Holocaust Rescuer

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"No matter how many Holocaust stories one has read, this one is a must, for its impact is so powerful."--School Library Journal, starredI did not ask myself, "Should I do this?" but "How will I do this?"Through this intimate and compelling memoir, we are witness to the growth of a hero.

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Some USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia articles related to Americans and the Holocaust

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Some USHMM Holocaust Encyclopedia articles related to Americans and the Holocaust

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The United States and the Holocaust

United States and the Nazi Threat: 1933-1937

The Nazi Olympics Berlin 1936

The Nazi Olympics Berlin 1936: African American Voices and "Jim Crow" America

United States and the Refugee Crisis: 1938 - 1941

Immigration to the United States 1933-1941

Documents Required to Obtain a Visa

Kristallnacht

Immigration of Refugee Children to the United States

Wagner-Rogers Bill

The United States: Isolation-Intervention

Voyage of the St. Louis

Pearl Harbor

The United States and the Holocaust, 1942-45

Japanese American Relocation

Riegner Telegram

We Will Never Die Pageant

Art and Politics of Arthur Syzk

Peter Bergson

War Refugee Board: Background and Establishment

War Refugee Board: Activities

People

Government

Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt

Frances Perkins

Breckinridge Long

Henry Morgenthau

Journalists

American Foreign and War Correspondents

Edward R. Murrow

William L. Shirer

Rescuers/Relief Organizations

Quakers

American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee and Refugee Aid

Varian Fry

The Rescue Mission of Gilbert and Eleanor Kraus

Martha and Waitstill Sharp

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Article about Marianne Winters (pen pal)

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Article about Marianne Winters (pen pal)

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The Bomberger family of Berks County enabled the Winters of Austria to immigrate to Berks on the eve of World War II.

Members of the Winter and Bomberger families gathered recently for the opening of a special exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

The families were linked forever when teenage pen pals Marianne Winter of Austria and Jane Bomberger of Reading exchanged letters in the 1930s. The Winters were Jewish, and the Bombergers were Pennsylvania German.

Responding to a plea from Marianne, who was concerned about the rise of Nazism, Jane convinced her family to sponsor the Winters as emigres to America.

On Feb. 4, 1939, the Winters arrived in Reading. The Reading Eagle featured the family in a front page story on Feb. 5, 1939.

Jane Bomberger Wentzel, a teacher in the Reading schools, wrote a book about the experience, "My Brush With History." She died at age 90 in 2010.

Marianne Winter Selinger, 96, who lives in New York, was unable to attend the gathering.

Among those attending were Robert Winter, Marianne's grand nephew; Sara Bomberger Halpern, Jane's sister; and Susan Harman and Patricia Rampulla, Jane's daughters.

"Americans and the Holocaust," which examines America's response to Nazism and the Holocaust, will be exhibited at the museum until 2021.

Laughter aside, parking is welcomed

I had to laugh a couple of weeks ago at a Sinking Spring Borough Council meeting when the borough manager announced that PennDOT had painted street parking lines along a stretch of road where "No Parking" signs were posted.

You couldn't write a better punchline about an agency that Pennsylvanians seem to love to hate, whether it's deserved or not.

However, I need to come to PennDOT's defense on this one, and not only because the borough decided the extra parking spaces would be a welcome addition downtown.

Borough Manager Michael Hart said that for whatever reason, the parking spaces were included in PennDOT's official plan for the road work, so the workers were following directions.

Also, when I returned to the office after the meeting that night, I looked up the Google map image of the area in question: Route 422, in the western half of the borough.

I found that the "No Parking" signs were not the large, detailed signs I had imagined. Instead, they had smaller dimensions and displayed only a black capital "P" encircled with the red "No" sign.

If I'd been busy at work going along the road and I'd already looked at my work plan, I think I'd just as easily have overlooked the signs and carried on merrily striping the road.

I had a good laugh, and the borough ended up with some new parking near local retailers.

What more can you ask for?
- Lindsey O'Laughlin, reporter
Lots of legwork pays off for kids

Schuylkill Valley's Special Track and Field event puts a special emphasis on kids with disabilities and making sure they have a chance to compete among their peers.

"It's to see them shine and smile," said Dana Carter, an event organizer and teacher from Schuylkill Valley.

For a few years, I've watched the athletes from Schuylkill Valley come through to the district's school board meeting where they get a special recognition for their achievements during the annual spring track and field meet. It was nice to cover the event this year, as well.

Behind the scenes, a team of teachers, staff and organizers from various school districts and corporate partners worked together to make it such a great day, and there's no doubt it required a lot of legwork to get everything together.

In the end, it was a great day, and I could tell the kids were having a blast.
- Matthew Nojiri, reporter

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Reporters' Notebook: Families tied by fate meet at Holocaust Museum

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The Bomberger family of Berks County enabled the Winters of Austria to immigrate to Berks on the eve of World War II. Members of the Winter and Bomberger families gathered recently for the opening of a special exhibit at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

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https://www.ushmm.org/educators/teaching-about-the-holocaust/oath/overview/education-under-the-third-reich

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https://www.amazon.com/Hitlers-Children-Bettina-Goring/dp/B008EXG6QC/ref=mp_s_a_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1531251400&sr=8-2&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_QL65&keywords=hitlers+children+dvd&dpPl=1&dpID=51j93s9aH%2BL&ref=plSrch

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ordinary men: reserve police battalion 101 and the final solution in poland

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Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland

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Christopher R. Browning's shocking account of how a unit of average middle-aged Germans became the cold-blooded murderers of tens of thousands of Jews-now with a new afterword and additional photographs. Ordinary Men is the true story of Reserve Police Battalion 101 of the German Orde...

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James Waller's Videos on Facing History and Ourselves

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James Waller's Videos on Facing History and Ourselves

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These are the links to the 4 videos mentioned at the end of his presentation.

https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/video/psychology-genocidal-behavior (11:02)

https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/video/choosing-cruelty-psychology-perpetrators (7:25)

https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/video/dehumanizing-enemy (6:38)

https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/video/monsters-and-men-nazis-nuremberg (6:33)

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These were designed using Some Were Neighbors content for University students and professors to explore ethical decision making. However, it can be adapted for high schoolers.

https://www.ushmm.org/learn/introduction-to-the-holocaust/ethical-leaders/overview/ethical-leadership

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Ethical Leadership - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

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We've designed these educational modules to help professors and their students explore how these challenges to ethical behavior and leadership played out in the context of the Holocaust and to pose larger questions about how these challenges confront us today.

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Encyclopedia entry

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"A student from the same grade as ours died from hunger and exhaustion yesterday. As a result of his terrible appearance, he was allowed to eat as much soup in school as he wanted, but it didn't help him much. He is the third victim in the class."

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http://somewereneighbors.ushmm.org/#/exhibitions/neighbors/un2540/description

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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum : Some Were Neighbors

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Link to video of public humiliation of teenage couple 

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Link to video of public humiliation of teenage couple 

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From the "Some Were Neighbors" online exhibition - I just filtered the format to "historical film footage" and there are 5 videos total. This video is the 2nd selection.

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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum : Some Were Neighbors

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Link for a pdf copy of Choices Weimar Republic

http://blogs.4j.lane.edu/smithhistory/files/2017/10/Choice_Weimar.pdf

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Primary footage from the Warsaw Ghetto propaganda footage and transcript of interviews with Filmographer and survivors who lived in that ghetto watching film and responding.

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Documentary ... A film about an unfinished film which portrays the people behind and before the camera in the Warsaw Ghetto, exposing the extent of the cinematic manipulation ...

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This Way to the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

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This Way to the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen

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ladies and gentlemen (penguin modern classics)

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poland - social life and customs - fiction

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1939-1945 - concentration camps - fiction

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penguin classics; german literature; german; 20th century; translation; russian literature; 19th century; historical fiction; russian; classic literature; japanese; literary fiction; french books; french literature; literary; romance; modernism; war; school; philosophy; existentialism; historical; drama; classic books; short stories; fiction; fiction books; classics; long story short; short story collections; short stories collections; historical fiction books; historical fiction novels; short story anthology; russia; italy

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poland - social life and customs - fiction

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1939-1945 - concentration camps - fiction

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This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen (Penguin Modern Classics)

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Tadeusz Borowski's concentration camp stories were based on his own experiences surviving Auschwitz and Dachau. In spare, brutal prose he describes a world where where the will to survive overrides compassion and prisoners eat, work and sleep a few yards from where others are murdered; wher...

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Karl Höcker's photograph album includes both documentation of official visits and ceremonies at Auschwitz as well as more personal photographs depicting the myriad of social activities that he and other members of the Auschwitz camp staff enjoyed.

Many of the most remarkable photographs are taken at Solahütte, a little known SS resort some 30 km south of Auschwitz on the Sola River. Archival records reveal that the SS rewarded Auschwitz guards who performed their work at Auschwitz in an exemplary fashion with a trip to Solahütte. Danuta Czech, in her daily chronicle of the camp wrote that on August 18, 1944, "SS Private Johann Antoni and SS man Hans Kartusch from the 3rd Guard Company of Auschwitz II receive eight days' special leave in the SS recreation center of Solahütte as recognition for the successful use of their weapons during the escape of four prisoners, in spite of darkness."

Though there are photos taken upon visits to Solahütte throughout the album, a series of photographs document a social gathering at Solahütte for the SS hierarchy. In attendance were some of the most notorious officers of the concentration camp system.

Rudolf Höss, the former commandant, returned to Auschwitz between May and July 1944 specifically to oversee the arrival of the Hungarian Jews. Josef Kramer was the commandant of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Later, as commandant of Bergen-Belsen, he would be known as the "Beast of Belsen." And Dr. Josef Mengele was, at the time of this photograph, continuing to select "specimens" for his medical experiments from among the newly arriving transports of Hungarian Jews. Höcker and Baer are there, shown in conversation with Höss, Kramer, and Mengele, along with other officers who have yet to be identified.

Perhaps the most extraordinary photograph depicts an accordionist leading a sing-along for approximately 70 SS men taken at this gathering. In the front row of the group are Höcker, SS-Hauptscharführer Otto Moll (the supervisor of the gas chambers), Höss, Baer, Kramer, Franz Hössler (commander of the female prisoner compound at Birkenau), and Mengele. These are some of the only known photographs of some of these men, including Mengele, taken while they were stationed at Auschwitz.

Several pages are devoted to a day trip for SS Helferinnen (female auxiliaries, young women who worked for the SS as communications specialists) on July 22, 1944. They arrive at Solahütte and run down a ramp accompanied to the music of an accordionist.

A full-page spread of six photographs entitled "Hier gibt es Blaubeeren" (Here there are blueberries) shows Höcker passing out bowls of fresh blueberries to the young women sitting on a fence. When the girls finish theatrically eating their blueberries for the camera, one girl poses with fake tears and an inverted bowl. Only miles away on the very same day, 150 prisoners (Jews and non-Jews) arrived on a transport to Auschwitz. The SS selected 21 men and 12 women for work, and killed the remaining members of the transport in the gas chambers.

Several pages depict a ceremony on September 1, 1944, commemorating the opening of the SS military hospital at the entrance to Birkenau. The festivities included an honor guard and official presentations by Baer and Dr. Enno Lolling. Scores of Nazi officials including many of the physicians (most notably Dr. Eduard Wirths and Dr. Carl Clauberg) and nurses attended the ceremony. The Allies bombed the field hospital on December 26, 1944, killing five SS personnel.

The album also contains photographs taken most likely in the aftermath of that very same December 26, 1944, air raid. These photographs were taken just weeks prior to the SS evacuation of the camp to avoid capture by Soviet troops. That day, the U.S. 455th Bombing Group hit targets on the outskirts of Birkenau, where the SS military hospital was located, and on the factories and oil refineries attached to Auschwitz (located in Auschwitz III-Monowitz). Höcker's photographs, captioned "Beisetzung von SS-Kameraden nach einem Terrorangriff" (The Burial of our SS Comrades after a Terror Attack), show a processional with horse-drawn hearses, seventeen flag-draped coffins, and a large group of mourners, including widows and children. The SS funeral service involved wreath laying, lots of flowers, and a military honor guard. One month later, Soviet troops liberated Auschwitz.

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Karl Höcker's photograph album includes both documentation of official visits and ceremonies at Auschwitz as well as more personal photographs depicting the myriad of social activities that he and other members of the Auschwitz camp staff enjoyed. Many of the most remarkable photographs are taken at Solahütte, a little known SS resort some 30 km south of Auschwitz on the Sola River.

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Auschwitz Album on Yad Vashem's Website 

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Auschwitz Album on Yad Vashem's Website 

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Here's the link to the album.

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On Echoes and Reflections' website, they have a section with a list of "Students' Toughest Questions" and they provide a suggested answer if you click on the question. Interesting source.

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As students study the Holocaust, they frequently-and understandably-struggle with understanding not only how the Holocaust was able to happen, but also why and how genocide continues to occur in the world, and what has been, and can be, done to prevent such atrocities from occurring.

This multipart resource is intended to help teachers support students' understanding of genocide in the context of their Holocaust education.

Why is it valuable to teach about genocide in the context of learning about the Holocaust?

The International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) provides a helpful rationale[1] that has informed the creation of this resource:

* The Holocaust is often considered to have given rise to our conceptualization of the term "genocide," which was coined during the Second World War, in large measure as a response to the crimes of the Nazis and their collaborators. Therefore the Holocaust can be an effective starting point and the foundation for studying genocide.

* Students can sharpen their understanding not only of similarities between events but also of key differences. In so doing, it may be an opportunity to better understand the particular historical significance of the Holocaust, and how study of the Holocaust may contribute to our understanding of other genocidal events.

* Students can identify common patterns and processes in the development of genocidal situations. Through the understanding of a genocidal process and by identifying stages and warning signs in this process, a contribution can hopefully be made to prevent future genocides.

* Students can appreciate the significance of the Holocaust in the development of international law, establishment of tribunals, and attempts by the international community to respond to genocide in the modern world.

* Students can gain awareness of the potential danger for other genocides and crimes against humanity that existed prior to the Holocaust and continue to the present day. This may strengthen an awareness of their own roles and responsibilities in the global community.

[1] "Education Working Group Paper on the Holocaust and Other Genocides" (2010)

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Students' Toughest Questions - Echoes & Reflections

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As students study the Holocaust, they frequently-and understandably-struggle with understanding not only how the Holocaust was able to happen, but also why and how genocide continues to occur in the world, and what has been, and can be, done to prevent such atrocities from occurring.

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Available online at http://www.mccc.edu/pdf/eng102/Week%209/Text_LeGuin%20Ursula_Ones%20Who%20Walk%20Away%20From%20Omelas.pdf

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Today Viola mentioned use of the ADL's "Pyramid of Hate" activity to discuss how bias can lead to discrimination and violence. In addition, the USC Shoah Foundation provides a 45 minute lesson plan for using the "pyramid of hate" in your classroom.

USC Shoah Foundation Lesson

USC Shoah Foundation Exercise

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Holocaust memoir appropriate for grades 8+.

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Sutori is a free digital timeline tool for students/teachers. The site has pre-written timeline lessons, but a real benefit is that teachers can create timeline assignments and students can work collaboratively to create a timeline - complete with images, links, written overview and citations. Students can share within the class and beyond.

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Portfolios, unit previews, self-paced courses, digital notebooks, multimedia lessons, timelines... and much more!

For social studies teachers

The structure of timelines, the simplicity of slides.

Inspire curiosity

The perfect format for inquiry-based instructional strategies. Motivate discussion and spark new ideas.

Critical thinking

Upload primary and secondary sources to train students' eyes to analyze and make connections.

Collaboration

Students work together as they address problems and make decisions as a team to reach a common goal.

Perfect for History, Geography and Sociology

For English, Language and Arts teachers

Writing and multimedia assignments have never been better.

Enhance literacy

Rich-editing features make Sutori a valuable companion for continued reading and writing development.

Creativity

Just the right amount of options to see creativity flourish for all types of learners.

Communication

Sutori's visual nature show the breadth of ways to convey ideas and knowledge.

Templates, lesson plans and more!

For STEM teachers

Showing the process of learning

Structured learning

The canvas to organize content. Set up templates for a cohesive learning experience.

Self-reflection

Students demonstrate their approach, outline their learning and reflect along the way.

Engage

Add formative quizzes, polls and any type of media to build fun activities with your students.

Some ready-made lessons to inspire you

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Sutori is a collaborative tool for classrooms, ideal for multimedia assignments in Social Studies, English, Language Arts, STEM, and PBL for all ages.

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My good friend who is a survivor of Auschwitz has had a movie produced telling his story. It is due out for public sometime in August - but if you are interested in ordering a DVD it is titled, "To Auschwitz and Back - The Joe Engel Story" - just google the title and you will find the information

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Short video of Roman Kent telling the story of his dog Lala

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Short video of Roman Kent telling the story of his dog Lala

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I believe the YouTube video is title Lala 360

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Simon Wiesenthal writes about a Nazi as he lay dying asked Wiesenthal to forgive him - Wiesenthal after the war asks people such as the Dali Lama whether he was wrong to refuse to forgive the Nazi