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use the code in google classroom to be part of this awesome class!!!

JD7HGEFXAfter entering the class, answer the question in the journal writing tab

American Holocaust

America's involvement in the holocaust

From the perspective of American history, we will investigate the global impact of World War II and the Holocaust, examining America's role and response during this dark period. We will delve into stories of bravery and resistance, from soldiers who fought on the front lines to citizens who stood against tyranny and offered refuge to those fleeing persecution.In our English studies, we will explore the powerful voices that emerged from the Holocaust, capturing raw human emotions and experiences. Through the works of writers like Art Spiegelman, whose pulitzer winning novel "MAUS" gives us a firsthand account of survival, and Anne Frank, whose diary became a symbol of hope amidst despair, we will explore the depths of human courage and the enduring power of words. This exploration is not just about understanding the past; it's about recognizing the echoes of history in today's world. By studying the Holocaust, we aim to foster empathy, critical thinking, and a commitment to ensuring such atrocities are never repeated. Prepare to engage with history and literature in a way that will challenge your perspectives and deepen your insight into the complexities of human nature. Together, we will honor the memories of those who suffered and celebrate the strength of those who survived, ensuring their stories continue to inspire future generations.

Summary

index

Unit iUnderstanding the holocaust
  • rise of the nazi regime & causes of the holocaust
  • key events of the holocaust
  • american involvement in world war ii

unit iinuremberg trials
  • purpose of the trials
  • charges/verdicts
  • role of the united states
  • mini-summative assessment

unit iiiProject Based Learning
  • Connections between historical & contemporary cases, genocides

final project

Understanding the holocaust

Rise of the Nazi regime & causes of the holocaust

Understand the scope and tragedy of the Holocaust. How the rise of the Nazi regime created the Holocaust. Explore concentration camps, ghettos, and memorials to gain insight into the places where these events occurred and the importance of preserving memory through physical sites.

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One photo is from a bombed out city in Germany (dresden), the other is from Gaza. which is which??

Hitler and the rise of Nazis

Instructions for Learners: Watch the YouTube video “5 Reasons Why Adolf Hitler Gained Absolute Power.” As you watch, fill in each section of the organizer: Describe the key factor in your own words. List examples or evidence from the video or your textbook. Summarize how the video connects each factor to Hitler’s rise. Answer the guiding questions as you complete each section.

Conceptual Vocabulary

Learners will participate in a conceptual vocabulary exercise to deepen their understanding of key terms and ideas that are central to the lesson. By exploring the meaning and significance of concepts like Holocaust.

1930

Timeline Project

1935

Project Overview:Create a chronological timeline of key events leading up to and during the Holocaust (1933–1945). Your timeline should help classmates understand how the Holocaust unfolded, including political, social, and personal impacts. Follow the instructions in Google Classroom. This is a Milestone Summative.

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1945

Key Events leading to the Holocaust

Learning Objectives
  • Learners will identify and sequence key events from 1933–1939 that marked the Nazi rise to power and the escalation of persecution against Jews and other minorities.
  • learners will analyze how Nazi policies and actions led to the establishment and evolution of concentration camps.
  • learners will examine primary sources and testimonies to understand the human impact of these events.
  • learners will reflect on the broader implications of state-sponsored discrimination and violence.s like this will help you organize

Origins of antisemitism

Antisemitism

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Antisemitism was not just a contributing factor but the explicit, central ideology behind the Holocaust. Nazi Germany’s policies, propaganda, and actions were rooted in a radical, racial form of antisemitism that led directly to genocide.

18%

Jews make up only 2% of the U.S. population but are the victims in 18% of all hate crimes—a 9x higher rate than their population share.

Timeline

1935

1933

1933

1933

1933-35

Race

Press/Media

destruction

Denaturalization

Barred

Life before the Nazi regime

Video: The Path to Nazi Genocide, Chapter 3/4: From Citizens to Outcasts, 1933–1938.

  • Early Nazi policies leading to persecution of Jewish citizens:
  • Jewish business boycotts
  • Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service-(keeping Jews out of major professional work) "Aryan Paragraph". Banned from Medical, education, law, journalism.
  • Education restrictions
  • Book burning- public book burning was organized to destroy the writings of Jewish and other "un-German" authors.

Nazi Policies of antisemitism

Nuremberg Laws

Classification of Jews

Passed in 1935 at a Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, these were a set of laws that institutionalized many of the racial theories underpinning Nazi ideology.Two main laws:

  • The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour: Forbade marriage and sexual relations between Jews and "Aryan" Germans.
  • The Reich Citizenship Law: Declared that only those of "German or related blood" were citizens; Jews became "subjects" without full citizen rights.

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Interactive Question

Nazi Propaganda

March 13, 1933 Creation of Ministry of Propaganda In March 1933, the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda was established under Joseph Goebbels. The Ministry’s mission was to ensure Nazi control over the media and culture. Nazi messages were communicated through art, music, theater, films, books, radio, educational materials, and the press

Kristallnacht/ghettos & camps

Objective:Students will understand what Kristallnacht was, the events that led up to it, and why it marked a turning point in Nazi persecution of Jews. Students will also consider the importance of standing against hate today.

Arbeit Macht Frei

Summary

Background: The Road to Kristallnacht

  • Nazi Rise to Power (1933): Adolf Hitler and the Nazis come to power, spreading antisemitic propaganda and enacting laws that isolate Jews from German society (Nuremberg Laws).
  • Economic & Social Isolation: Jews lose jobs, businesses, and rights; propaganda blames them for Germany’s problems.
  • Escalating Tensions: By 1938, hostility toward Jews is open and state-supported.
  • Trigger Event: In November 1938, a young Jewish man named Herschel Grynszpan, upset by his family’s deportation from Germany, shoots a German official in Paris. The Nazis use this as a pretext to unleash violence.
Kristallnacht: The Night of Broken Glass
  • When: Nights of November 9-10, 1938
  • Nazi officials organized attacks on Jewish homes, businesses, and synagogues across Germany and Austria.
  • Windows were smashed (“Kristallnacht” = “Crystal Night,” referring to broken glass), buildings burned, Torah scrolls desecrated.
  • Over 1,400 synagogues and 7,500 Jewish businesses destroyed.
  • 30,000 Jewish men arrested and sent to concentration camps; at least 90 Jews killed.

aftermath

  • Jews were fined for the damages.
  • Marked the shift from discrimination to open violence and terror, paving the way for the Holocaust.

Ghettos

Jewish ghettos were enclosed districts in cities and towns, primarily in Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe during the Holocaust, where the German authorities forced the Jewish population to live under miserable conditions. They were established to segregate, isolate, control, and exploit Jews, serving as a transitional step in the Nazis' "Final Solution" to systematically murder Europe's Jewish population. !

The Ghettos

dER sTURMER

1923- Julius Streicher founded Der Sturmer, and in November of that year, he took part in the attempt by Adolf Hitler and his followers to seize Munich. He like Hitler was imprisoned for their roles in the failed putsch. Streicher was a teacher at the time. In 1924, he won election as a member of a Bavarian provincial legislature, a position he held for eight years. Hitler appointed Streicher as regional party chief (Gauleiter) of the Franconia area of Bavaria.

Julius Streicher- Holocaust Encyclopedia

'The Jew is a devil in human form. It is fitting that he be exterminated root and branch' ...Julius Streicher

'The Nazis maintained plausible deniability for the "Final Solution" through a system of deception, secrecy, and euphemistic language that disguised their genocidal intentions from the general public and the international community.

The Final Solution

The Final Solution: was the Nazi regime’s plan to systematically exterminate the Jewish people of Europe during World War II. Officially called the “Final Solution to the Jewish Question,” it was formulated by top Nazi leaders and put into action beginning in 1941. The plan led to the construction of death camps such as Auschwitz, Treblinka, and Sobibor, where millions of Jews—and other targeted groups—were murdered through mass shootings, gas chambers, starvation, forced labor, and other brutal methods.

final solution- genocide

The Final Solution was discussed and coordinated at the Wannsee Conference in January 1942, where high-ranking Nazi officials outlined how to efficiently carry out genocide on a massive scale. By the end of the Holocaust, approximately six million Jews had been killed, along with millions of others, including Romani people, disabled individuals, political prisoners, and others the Nazis deemed “undesirable.”

Conspiracy-2001

dramatic film that dramatises the 1942 Wannsee Conference. Using the authentic script taken from the only surviving transcript recorded during the meeting, the film delves into the psychology of Nazi officials involved in the "Final Solution of the Jewish question" during World War II.

Relevant data

14,000

At the peak, of Nazi's murdered per day.

100-125

Jews murdered per hour.

  • During the period of systematic mass murder of Jews from 1942-1945, it is estimated that, on average, approximately 137 to 205 Jews were murdered per hour, though the kill rates varied significantly over time and peaked at much higher intensities.
  • Calculations This average is based on the widely accepted total of six million Jewish victims, with the main period of systematic mass killing occurring over approximately 3.5 to 4 years (1942 until May 1945). Average based on 4 years (35,040 hours): 6,000,000 victims / 35,040 hours ≈ 171 victims per hour. Average based on 3.5 years (30,660 hours): 6,000,000 victims / 30,660 hours ≈ 196 victims per hour.
  • A separate calculation based on the general estimate of 3,000 Jews murdered every day for five and a half years yields approximately 125 victims per hour. Another estimate, based on 6 million Jews murdered over six years, gives an average of approximately 100 per hour. Peak Killing Rates The killing was not constant, with extreme periods of violence dramatically increasing the rate: At the peak of the Holocaust, some scholars estimate the Nazis murdered more than 14,000 Jews a day, which is approximately 583 Jews per hour.
  • During a hyperintense 100-day period in mid-1942 (Operation Reinhard), over 1.47 million Jews were murdered, with monthly kill rates of around 445,700, translating to approximately 600 victims per hour during that specific surge. At the Auschwitz-Birkenau killing center during the deportation of Hungarian Jews in mid-1944, the peak killing capacity reached up to 12,000 per day (500 per hour).

Symbolism in LIterature

What is a symbol of Literature?

Symbolism Slides

Objective
Students will learn about the 1.5 million children killed during the Holocaust by participating in The Butterfly Project, a global call to action. Through this project, students will research the lives of Holocaust victims, reflect on the importance of remembrance, and create a painted ceramic butterfly to honor the memory of one child. By contributing to this memorial, students will engage in a meaningful act of remembrance and explore their role in promoting empathy, awareness, and social responsibility.

The Butterfly Project video

video

animated film- terezin

The children's tree of Terezin: an animated film. - DRS Journal: What is a strong example of symbolism from this story?

Theresienstadt ghetto

The Czech town of Terezin, was the site of the Theresienstadt hybrid ghetto, used by the Third Reich to portray a model "habitable" concentration camp, and further dissuade any questions regarding the forced relocation of millions of people during WWII.

Holocaust survivor describes the music of Terezín concentration camp

At the transit concentration camp of Terezín in the former Czechoslovakia, where some great Czech composers and musicians were imprisoned, music was permitted by the Nazis. Zdenka Fantlova, who experienced life in the camp, describes what it was like there and how she, unlike many other inmates, escaped death at Auschwitz.

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American involvement

Objective

  • Understand what the American government, military, and public knew about the Holocaust as it unfolded.
  • Analyze primary source documents, including newspaper articles, radio broadcasts, and speeches, to assess the extent of American knowledge.
  • Write a short essay evaluating whether the U.S. should have intervened earlier in response to the Holocaust.

What did America know

We will consider both the American understanding of the persecution of Jewish people and the overarching plan to address the "Jewish Question."

Interactive Question

Warm-up: In your journal write 5-7 complete sentences: What do you think the American government and military knew about the Holocaust while it was happening? How do you think they responded during and after the Holocaust?

The rise of Hitler and the Nazi Regime, and other Nazi policies were widely reported in U.S. Newspapers (1933-1942)

America knew about Jewish refugees fleeing Europe but limited immigration due to restrictive quotas

What did the american public know?

In 1939 carried 937 Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi persecution. After being denied entry into Cuba, the United States, and Canada, the ship was forced to return to Europe, where over 250 of the passengers were later killed in the Holocaust. This tragic event is known as the "voyage of no return" or "ship of fate" because it highlighted the failure of multiple countries to provide refuge, sealing the tragic fate of many of its passengers. Four countries did taken in many of the refugees, France, Netherlands, Belgium, and England. However, those countries were later controlled by the Nazi takeowver and those who disembarked were later captured and killed by the Nazi's.

German passenger liner MS St. Louis

"Ship of fate"

During the Holocaust

America knew

American citizens had information from reports of mass killings by 1942: The U.S. State Dept. and media had evidence of the Nazi "Final Solution.A 1942 New York Times article reported on the Nazi plan to exterminate all Jews in Europe.

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Despite the knowledge of atrocities

  • Military Strategy: U.S. policymakers and military leaders maintained that the most efficient way to help all victims of Nazi persecution was to defeat Germany as quickly and decisively as possible. The War Department, for instance, repeatedly refused requests to bomb concentration camps or the railroads leading to them, stating it was not a military priority and would divert essential resources from the main war effort.
  • Disbelief and Prioritization: Initial reports of the scale of the atrocities were met with a degree of skepticism, partially because of false atrocity reports during World War I. Furthermore, the U.S. entered the war to defend democracy after the attack on Pearl Harbor, and its initial war aims did not center on humanitarian rescue.
  • Ultimately, while knowledge of the atrocities was available, the prevailing view was that the war effort and national interests took precedence over specific, large-scale humanitarian interventions. It was only late in the war, in January 1944, that President Roosevelt established the War Refugee Board, which did save tens of thousands of lives, but this was a relatively late and limited effort. The full extent of the Holocaust was only revealed to the American public when Allied forces liberated the camps in the spring of 1945.

Justice after the Holocaust

The Nuremberg Trials, held between 1945 and 1946, were a landmark moment in international law and justice as they sought to hold Nazi leaders accountable for their crimes during the Holocaust and World War II. These trials were the first of their kind to prosecute individuals for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide on such a global scale.

Nuremberg Trials

By presenting overwhelming evidence, including eyewitness testimonies, photographs, and official Nazi records, the trials exposed the full extent of Nazi atrocities to the world. They established the principle that individuals, even heads of state, could be held personally accountable for their actions, rejecting the defense of simply "following orders." This set a critical precedent in international law and helped lay the foundation for modern human rights protections and the International Criminal Court. Other trials, such as those held at Dachau, further reinforced the importance of justice in addressing the horrors of the Holocaust. These trials focused on lower-ranking officials, SS officers, and camp personnel who carried out the brutalities in concentration camps. Bringing these perpetrators to justice not only provided a sense of accountability for the victims and their families but also sent a powerful message to the world—that such crimes would not go unpunished. These legal proceedings were essential not only for punishing those responsible but also for documenting the atrocities in a way that ensured they would not be forgotten. The trials served as a reminder of the importance of upholding human dignity and the need to prevent future acts of genocide and mass violence.

LAST DAY FOR final projects

Use your time to work on your final projects.

Expectations:

  • Butterfly Poem
    • Rough draft of poem must be turned in for feedback before completing final draft.
  • Butterfly Ceramic (paint)
  • Research Child Holocaust victims
  • Suitcase items
Final project due December 17

painting butterflies

first and foremost, remember that your work is honoring a child whose life was cut short, be respectful.1. Your workstation: get a piece of paper towel, paper plate, and a cup of water. 2. You will put your name on the paper plate, and the name of the child on the plate. 3. Paint the butterfly. 4. DON'T paint the back. 5. When you are finished, please let us know. We will take a picture of your butterfly and the biographical card to make sure we get all butterflies done.

Suitcase

What should I put in my suitcase? Here are my ideas for the three people I have been researching. Angelo Levi Angelo Levi -poem (required) -butterfly - painted (required) Stumblingstones for Angelo and his family in Venice. Information about the artist and the project Pictures of memorial in Venice and information about the memorial and the artist. Picture of Auschwitz with a poem about Auschwitz Travel brochure about Venice History of the Jewish ghetto in Venice-map of the Jewish ghetto Venice treasure box-made by me Zigmund Adler Zigmund Adler -poem (required) -butterfly- painted (required) Map of Liege, Belgium Mechelen transport camp Auschwitz information Childhood in LIege - diary entry Frida Adler- (Zigmund’s cousin) went by Fernande Albert in hiding Poem - she cried at the movies when she found out her mom was transported, the Allies were two weeks too late, (page 22- her feelings of the pain her family endured as they died.) I cannot watch the trains… Catholic baptismal certificate Belgian handkerchief made by Frida—with her families names or initials Maid’s duties list (page 8 in the document) Yiddish-French-English dictionary of simple terms- that Frida would know Letter to aunt in Cleveland

painting butterflies

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Jews no longer citizens

July 1933
  • The Denaturalization Law revokes the citizenship of naturalized Jews.
  • Yes, Jews were denaturalized through Nazi legislation, most notably with the Reich Citizenship Law and the Eleventh Decree. The Reich Citizenship Law (1935),stripped Jews of their basic rights and defined them as a separate race, which served as the legal foundation for denaturalization. This process was accelerated by later laws that officially removed citizenship from Jews and other "undesirables". Jews were classified as subjects of Germany

NUremberg Racial laws chart

The chart was used by the Nazi Regime to provide the public with an explanaition of who would be labeled "a Jew."

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Jews Barred

1933-35
  • Jews barred from professions (law, medicine, education), schools, and public life.
  • Social isolation: Jews banned from public spaces, schools, they're required to carry special identity cards.

Race laws

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Racial laws which set out a number of restrictions on Jewish people such as depriving them of the right to German citizenship and right to marry non-Jews. Amendments to the laws then defined who exactly was to be identified as a Jew in Nazi Germany.

Nazi crackdown on Jewish business'

April 1933
  • April 1933: Boycott of Jewish businesses; Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service excludes Jews from government job.
  • By 1935, Jewish businesses: forcibly transferred to non-jews. Jews excluded from professions and forced to register their assets.

National Socialist German Workers Party

Rise of Nazi party

The rise of the Nazi Party began in Germany during the early 1930s, a period marked by economic hardship, political instability, and social unrest following World War I. Adolf Hitler and his National Socialist German Workers Party (Nazi Party) exploited widespread dissatisfaction with the Weimar Republic, promising to restore national pride, revive the economy, and provide strong leadership. Through persuasive propaganda, mass rallies, and the use of violence and intimidation by the SA(Brownshirts), the Nazi's rapidly gained popular support. In 1933, Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. He quickly consolidated power by suppressing opposition parties, curtailing civil liberties, and using events like the Reichstag fire to justify emergency decrees. The Enabling Act of 1933 gave Hitler dictatorial authority, allowing him to establish a totalitarian state. Under Nazi rule, Germany pursued aggressive expansionism, anti-Semitic policies, and ultimately plunged the World into World War II. The regime's rise is a stark reminder of how economic crisis, political polarization, and charismatic leadership can threaten democracy and human rights.

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Banning of the press

October 1933
  • The Reich Press Law stated that all journalism had to be “racially clean”.
  • Any Jewish and liberal editors and journalists were sacked, and all remaining editors had to take a Nazi citizenship test and prove that they were not married to a Jew, years ago, even from other cultures.
  • The Reich Citizenship Law and Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honour established a tiered system of citizenship based on race.
  • "German blood" requirement: A person had to be of "German or kindred blood" to be considered for Reich citizenship, which was a prerequisite for full political rights. "Mischling" (mixed-blood) test.
  • Propaganda and public displays of antisemitism increase.

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U.S. Government & the Military

Allied intelligence: The U.S. and its allies (Great Britain, Canada, etc.) intercepted communications detailing Nazi atrocities, including the use of gas chambers. Lack of Action: Despite knowledge of the atrocities, the U.S. government and military focused on winning the war rather than directly intervening to stop the Holocaust.

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Antisemitism and the Holocaust: Historical Statistics

  • The Holocaust was a direct result of state-sponsored antisemitism, culminating in the systematic murder of two-thirds of Europe’s Jews.
  • 66% of European Jews Murdered
    • The Holocaust’s impact was so severe that it reduced the Jewish population of Europe from over 9 million to just about 3 million by 1945. TWO in three Jewish people was killed.

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Antisemitism in America Today: Hate Crime Statistics

Recent Trends (2024): FBI-recorded hate crimes against Jews: 1,938 (highest ever recorded) Total antisemitic incidents (ADL): 9,354 (record high) Increase in physical assaults: 21% rise from previous year Overall increase in hate crimes: 5.8% rise from previous year.

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When giving a presentation, there are two objectives to pursue: conveying information and avoiding yawns. To achieve this, it may be good practice to create an outline and use words that will burn into your audience's memory.

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When giving a presentation, there are two objectives to pursue: conveying information and avoiding yawns. To achieve this, it may be good practice to create an outline and use words that will burn into your audience's memory.