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The Holocaust: A Virtual Fieldtrip
The Holocaust: A Virtual Fieldtrip
The Holocaust
DIRECTIONS: To find answers to the important questions below, complete each task on the right. Each task
will lead you somewhere on the web as you journey through the Holocaust. Write your answers on your
student handout.
1. Holocaust Background:
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
What is it?
What does the word Holocaust mean?
When did it happen?
Where did it happen?
Watch this Animated Map of the Holocaust to answer C-D
Important Dates:
i. 1933, January 30th:
ii. 1935, September 15th:
Navigate this Interactive Timeline of the Holocaust
iii. 1938, November 9-10th:
to find these dates.
iv. 1941, September:
v. 1941, December 7th:
vi. 1942, July 4th:
vii. 1945:
c. What is a Scapegoat?
e. What were the Nuremberg Race Laws, and how did this persecute Jews?
Read a summary of the Race Laws.
View and zoom-in on a race law chart. (Juden means
Jew. Verboten means forbidden).
Continued
i.
What is Propaganda?
j.
What types of Propaganda did the Nazis use and what was their purpose?
Watch a video about a staged propaganda
film.
Read about and see The Peoples Radio
and listen to Commentary #5.
View posters of the Aryan Family
e. What was the Final Solution and how did the Nazis carry it out?
Read here to find out.
f. Who were the SS (Schutzstaffel)? What did they do?
View & read this page here to find out.
g. Describe concentration camps, their purpose, and how they worked.
View the Auschwitz Album. Click here for a video.
Take a tour of Auschwitz: be sure to click on images 1, 12,
16, and 17 and look around in 360 degrees.
Continued
4. Liberation
a. Who were The Allied Forces?
b. What did they find at the concentration camps and how did they react?
Read about Liberators here.
Browse photos of freed prisoners
(you respond)