Thursday, February 4, 2010

Interrogation of the Holocaust.

Recently in class, we've been reading 'The Boy In The Stripped Pyjamas' by John Boyne. The book is practically about the Holocaust and having it as our history and past encounter, we're meant to specialize about it more by accessing a Holocaust website provided and reading through the articles - acknowledging sentence by sentence, looking at photos and examining it, and asking someone in our class a few questions about those articles and photos like the following...
  1. *Scroll down, click on 'For Students' under Education on the side bar. Click on 'anti-semitism' in the second paragraph of the main page. Click on the image stipulated. What do you think of that image? Why were there crowds on the board, saying 'Jews are not wanted here.'? Why were the Jews in the photo looked devasted and hysterically drawn? Describe and explain.
  2. *Go back, and scroll down for the articles. Read the first two paragraphs of the article. What does anti-semitism mean? Do you think that any of this 'anti-semitism' was right and necessary to the world? Explain.
  3. Who sponsered the Holocaust, and who was it targeted on? When and why do you think this was happening?
  4. *Go back, and click on 'Jewish life in Europe before the Holocaust'. Scroll down, and click the map. How long have Jewish people lived in Europe? Why was Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Poland, and Soviet Union have the most population of Jewish people dead and less population of Jewish people dead in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece, Bulgaria, and Turky?
  5. They said that in a little more than a decade, most of Europe would have been conquered, by Nazi Germany. Do you think that this would happen? Explain.
  6. *Go back to the main page, and click on 'Nazi rise to power'. Read the first two paragraphs of the artical. Who created the Volk Community and who was it guided by? Why do you think it was created for?
  7. What is the Reichstag Fire Decree? What is the Third Reich? Who were part of the 'political opponents'?
  8. *Scroll down to the poster and click it. What do you think this poster was used for? What do you think it says?
  9. Do you think it was full of lies and made-ups? Would you think that people was 'brain-washed' by this poster signed by Adolf Hitler?
  10. To avoid any of this from happening again now or in the future, what do you think people could/should do to prevent it?
"The Nazis victimized some people for what they did, some for what they refused to do, some for what they were, and some for the fact that they were." - John Conway

"The Holocaust was the most evil crime ever committed." - Stephen Ambrose

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