Lesson 1: Studying the Holocaust
Sacred Writing Time
1. Define the term catastrophe.
2. Discuss the difference between natural and human catastrophes.
3. Make a two-column chart of natural catastrophes and human catastrophes.
Sacred Writing Time
1. Define the term catastrophe.
2. Discuss the difference between natural and human catastrophes.
3. Make a two-column chart of natural catastrophes and human catastrophes.
The Holocaust - A Human Catastrophe
"Our study of the Holocaust (in Hebrew, Shoah), is the name given for the murder of some six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators. The Holocaust occurred during what is known as the Nazi era from 1933 to 1945, during which time Jews were persecuted with increasing severity. After the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, and especially after the Nazis and their collaborators invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, they began the systematic mass murder of Jews in an attempt to kill all Jews everywhere. Although only Jews were targeted for complete annihilation, many others also fell victim to the Nazis and their allies during World War II which lasted until 1945: scores of thousands of Sinti-Roma; at least 250,000 people with mental or physical disabilities; more than three million Soviet prisoners, about two million Poles; and thousands of homosexuals, Communists, Socialists, trades unionists, and Jehovah's Witnesses" ~ Echoes and Reflections Teacher's Guide
"Our study of the Holocaust (in Hebrew, Shoah), is the name given for the murder of some six million Jews by the Nazis and their collaborators. The Holocaust occurred during what is known as the Nazi era from 1933 to 1945, during which time Jews were persecuted with increasing severity. After the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, and especially after the Nazis and their collaborators invaded the Soviet Union in June 1941, they began the systematic mass murder of Jews in an attempt to kill all Jews everywhere. Although only Jews were targeted for complete annihilation, many others also fell victim to the Nazis and their allies during World War II which lasted until 1945: scores of thousands of Sinti-Roma; at least 250,000 people with mental or physical disabilities; more than three million Soviet prisoners, about two million Poles; and thousands of homosexuals, Communists, Socialists, trades unionists, and Jehovah's Witnesses" ~ Echoes and Reflections Teacher's Guide
Lesson 1: Vocabulary
Please use the Glossary of Holocaust Terminology link below and define all of these words in your literature notebook. Write LESSON 1: UNDERSTANDING THE HOLOCAUST at the top. Number the words, underline the term, and then write the definition.
1. Brownshirts
2. Collaborator
3. Concentration Camp
4. Discrimination
5. European Jewry
6. Gestapo
7. Gypsies
8. Jehovah's Witness
9. Kristallnacht Pogrom
10. Nazi
11. Pogrom
12. Propaganda
13. Reich
14. Shoah
15. Sinti-Roma
16. Survivor
17. United Nations
18. Visual History Testimony
Please use the Glossary of Holocaust Terminology link below and define all of these words in your literature notebook. Write LESSON 1: UNDERSTANDING THE HOLOCAUST at the top. Number the words, underline the term, and then write the definition.
1. Brownshirts
2. Collaborator
3. Concentration Camp
4. Discrimination
5. European Jewry
6. Gestapo
7. Gypsies
8. Jehovah's Witness
9. Kristallnacht Pogrom
10. Nazi
11. Pogrom
12. Propaganda
13. Reich
14. Shoah
15. Sinti-Roma
16. Survivor
17. United Nations
18. Visual History Testimony