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…
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,…
