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The goal of the lesson is to help students understand--by reading excerpts from memoirs, biographies, and diaries--the resistance efforts of Jews during the Holocaust. Learners will be challenged to analyze the excerpts and identify examples of resistance within them. Grade Level: 7-12. Difficulty may be adjusted by changing the number and reading level of the excerpts selected for instruction. Eight excerpts are provided. Lexile levels of the texts are provided when available. Lesson Plan

Grade Level7th-12th grade SubjectLanguage Arts/ReadingSocial Studies Time Needed2 class periods. Preparation for this lesson could be completed as homework. IntroductionSome Holocaust survivors shared memories of their experiences to help educate future generations. They are not historians, but rather important eye-witnesses to what happened to them at a given place, in a given time, in a given set of circumstances. By reading excerpts of several memoirs or biographies on a particular topic, the reader is able to form a broader view of what was happening across a spectrum of experiences during the Holocaust. This particular lesson focuses on conditions in the…

Created by Jessica Rockhold. Revised by Laura Patton 12-2023.Midwest Center for Holocaust Education Grade Level7th-12th grade SubjectSocial StudiesLanguage Arts/Reading Time Needed1-2 class period(s) IntroductionMany students understand and internalize information more efficiently when they are able to visualize the history they are studying. The Nazis used very precise methods for processing people through or into their death camps. This exercise utilizes primary sources and maps to orient students to the process of arrival and selection at Auschwitz-Birkenau, adding location, direction and movement to the written testimony. MaterialsTeacher InstructionsMap of Auschwitz-BirkenauAuschwitz Album Photographs for StudentsAuschwitz Album Photographs - Notes for TeachersAuschwitz Album…

Submitted by Penny SelleNotre Dame de Sion Upper SchoolKansas City, Missouri Introduction to the Assignment The Auschwitz Album is concrete evidence of one system the Third Reich used in its attempt to murder Europe's Jews. It was used during the 1960's in testimonies at the Auschwitz trials in Frankfurt. The photographs in the album record the deportation of Hungarian Jews, some wearing the Stars of David on their coats, from the Berehova Ghetto to Auschwitz-Birkenau circa 26 May 1944. They depict the selection process on "the ramp" off the newly built spur which allowed trains to unload inside the camp. Previously,…

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Jenny Buchanan Lee's Summit North High SchoolLee's Summit, Missouri Grade LevelHigh School SubjectLanguage Arts/ReadingSocial Studies Time NeededRecommend 1 class period Materials European Antisemitism notes European Antisemitism notes KEY Timeline Activity Timeline Student worksheet Timeline Activity KEY

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This timeline, created by MCHE, lists events, policies, and laws that negatively affected Jews around the world from 70 CE to 1920. Secondary students often believe that antisemitism began with the Nazis. This is untrue. The Nazis built upon centuries of previously-established antisemitism.