The Holocaust
A brand new workbook!
The Holocaust
Lessons are based almost entirely on the testimony of Holocaust survivors.
Especially teenagers.
One workbook for the whole class.
Designed for grades 6-12.
- Classroom activities based on primary documents:
- Timelines
- Maps
- Photos
- Propaganda posters
- Famous quotations
- Documentary videos
- Testimony of Holocaust survivors
Classroom activities to analyze the primary documents
Brain games
Thinksheets
Group analysis based on Bloom’s taxonomy
Classroom activities for character education
Profiles of Nazi leaders – students predict what happens.
Profiles of Jewish resistance – students predict what happens.
Homework on the Internet
In class, the teacher launches a topic.
Students complete the bulk of the work at home.
All websites are up to date!
Assessment
The Mother of All Tests
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Many of the lessons are homework on the Internet.
1. Causes of the Holocaust
Hitler and the Nazi Party
Lesson #1 Homework The rise of Hitler
Lesson #2 Lecture The Nazi Party
Lesson #3 Group analysis The Nazi Party
Lesson #4 Homework The characteristics of fascism
Why the Germans loved Hitler
Lesson #5 Lecture Germany was ripe for fascism
Lesson #6 Group analysis Why the Germans loved Hitler
Why the Germans hated the Jews
Lesson #7 Homework Why the Germans hated the Jews
Lesson #8 Homework Anti-Semitism
Lesson #9 Group analysis Anti-Semitism
Lesson #10 Political cartoons Hitler blamed the Jews for all of Germany’s problems
Lesson #11 Homework Hitler blamed Jewish bankers for the Great Depression
Lesson #12 Homework The Master Race
Lesson #13 Profile Joseph Goebbels, Minister of Propaganda
Lesson #14 Homework Nazi propaganda
Lesson #15 Homework Propaganda: What the average German read
Lesson #16 Homework Propaganda: Films at the movie theater
Hitler’s Children
Lesson #17 Homework Propaganda was directed at German children
Lesson #18 Homework Propaganda through the eyes of a middle schooler
Lesson #19 Homework The Hitler Youth
Lesson #20 Homework Hitler’s Children
Summary
Lesson #21 Game Why did the German people allow the Holocaust?
Lesson #22 Game Why did the German people allow the Holocaust?
Test 142 questions
2. Hitler in power
Hitler came to power by constitutional means
Lesson #1 Chart Elections in Germany, 1928-1932
Lesson #2 Lecture The elections of 1932
Hitler seized power and set up a totalitarian state
Lesson #3 Lecture The Enabling Act, 1933
Lesson #4 Profile Adolf Hitler
Lesson #5 Homework Hitler crushed all of his political opponents, 1933-34
Lesson #6 Homework Hitler & his henchmen
Lesson #7 Homework What Hitler did as dictator
Lesson #8 Homework The Gestapo
Lesson #9 Homework The first concentration camp was built at Dachau in 1933.
Lesson #10 Homework The Totalitarian State
Lesson #11 Homework Germany’s institutions were distorted by the Nazis
The average person did not oppose the Nazis
Lesson #12 Homework The average person was a bystander
Lesson #13 Profile Martin Niemoller
Lesson #14 Group analysis Martin Niemoller
Lesson #15 Group analysis Martin Niemoller
Lesson #16 Group analysis Top Ten Reasons why people did not oppose Hitler
Lesson #17 Homework Who did resist Hitler?
Test 94 questions
3. Timeline of the Holocaust
Lesson #1 Homework Timeline of the Holocaust
Lesson #2 Homework The Third Reich
Test 21 questions
4. The Seven Stages
Lesson #1 Homework The persecution of the Jews came in seven stages
Lesson #2 Homework The economic boycott of Jewish businesses
Lesson #3 Homework The Nuremberg Laws
Lesson #4 Homework The 1936 Olympics
Lesson #5 Homework Kristallnacht
Lesson #6 Homework Half the Jewish population fled Nazi Germany
Lesson #7 Homework What did the U.S. government do?
Lesson #8 Homework The U.S. press did not cover the Holocaust
Lesson #9 Homework What did Jewish Americans do?
Lesson #10 Homework How did the Nazis find all the Jews?
Lesson #11 Homework The deportations
Lesson #12 Homework The Ghetto
Lesson #13 Homework The Wannsee Conference
Lesson #14 Film The Wannsee Conference
Lesson #15 Group analysis The Wannsee Conference
Lesson #16 Group analysis The entire Nazi government was mobilized
Lesson #17 Homework Euthanasia
Lesson #18 Group analysis The Seven Stages
Lesson #19 Game The Seven Stages
Test 64 questions
5. Mapping the Holocaust
Lesson #1 Mapping Mapping the Holocaust
Test 18 questions
6. Inside the concentration camps
Lesson #1 Profile Heinrich Himmler
Lesson #2 Homework The SS ran the concentration camps
Lesson #3 Homework The concentration camp system
Lesson #4 Homework Factories were built next to the concentration camps
Lesson #5 Homework Photos: Inside the concentration camps
Lesson #6 Homework Eyewitness accounts: Life inside the concentration camps
Lesson #7 Profile Elie Wiesel, a teenager in Auschwitz
Lesson #8 Homework Auschwitz
Lesson #9 Homework Josef Mengele
Lesson #10 Homework Videos: Auschwitz
Test 36 questions
7. Children of the Holocaust
Lesson #1 Homework The Kindertransport
Lesson #2 Homework Hidden children
Lesson #3 Homework Children in the ghettos
Lesson #4 Homework Children in the concentration camps
Lesson #5 Homework Babies and small children had little chance of surviving
Lesson #6 Homework Teenagers had a better chance of surviving
Lesson #7 Profile Anne Frank
Lesson #8 Homework Anne Frank
Test 47 question
8. The Rescuers
Lesson #1 Homework Denmark
Lesson #2 Group analysis Denmark
Lesson #3 Group analysis Denmark
Lesson #4 Homework A handful of individuals
Lesson #5 Film “Schindler’s List”
Lesson #6 Homework The story behind “Schindler’s List”
Lesson #7 Profile Raoul Wallenberg
Test 4 questions
9. The Resistance
Lesson #1 Homework Poland
Lesson #2 Homework Armed Jewish resistance in the ghettos
Lesson #3 Homework The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, 1943
Lesson #4 Group analysis The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Lesson #5 Group analysis The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Lesson #6 Homework The Polish Underground
Lesson #7 Homework Armed Jewish resistance in the concentration camps, Poland
Lesson #8 Homework The Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union
Lesson #9 Homework Babi Yar
Lesson #10 Group analysis Babi Yar
Lesson #11 Homework The Partisans
Lesson #12 Film “Defiance”
Lesson #13 Group analysis The Partisans
Lesson #14 Group analysis The Partisans
Lesson #15 Homework The Resistance in Western Europe
Test 41 questions
10. Results of the Holocaust
Lesson #1 Homework The death marches
Lesson #2 Homework The Allies liberated the concentration camps
Lesson #3 Lecture The death toll
Lesson #4 Homework UNRRA and the Jewish refugees
Lesson #5 Profile Robert H. Jackson, Chief Prosecutor, Nuremberg Trials
Lesson #6 Lecture The Nuremberg Trials, 1945
Lesson #7 Homework The Nuremberg Trials
Lesson #8 Game Three Crimes
Lesson #9 Game Three Crimes
Lesson #10 Homework The International Convention on Genocide, 1948
Lesson #11 Group analysis Genocide
Lesson #12 Homework Genocides of the 20th century
Lesson #13 Profile Eleanor Roosevelt, U.S. delegate to the United Nations
Lesson #14 Homework Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
Lesson #15 Profile David Ben Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel
Lesson #16 Homework The establishment of the state of Israel
Lesson #17 Profile Simon Wiesenthal, Nazi hunter
Lesson #18 Homework The Eichmann Trial, 1961
Lesson #19 Evaluation The major events, 1945-1961
Test 88 questions