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Handouts from Christina

NOTES: Monday Classroom Session __**1. Christina Chavarria**__ Cchavarria@ushmm.org 202.488.0466

http://www.ushmm.org
 * Www.ushmm.org**

Teachinghistory.org http://www.teachinghistory.org

1933-1945 were the years the Holocaust occurred but you have to look at previous years to see why it occurred

Survivor clips on YouTube, holocaust museum website, shoah website

"Triumph of the wheel" propaganda piece showing Hitler on plane going from place to place

"Hitler" by Ian Kreshaw

Don't teach this by saying Hitler did this and Hitler did that. There was an entire machine doing all the evil.

Online exhibits on rescue

A. Guidelines foe teaching about the Holocaust Why? Why didn't they just leave? Discuss in groups the Documentation required for immigration visas to enter the US and Documentation required for emigration from Germany **(In packet)**
 * Your students - consider your students background, geographic setting, culture, etc...
 * The Holocaust/Genocide
 * 1) What is the Holocaust - animated video on the website
 * 2) Define the Holocaust
 * 3) The Holocaust was not inevitable - the propaganda piece about the Evian Conference
 * 4) Avoid simple answers to complex questions

Read "Salvaged Pages" by Alexander Zapruder and "Klaus Langer diary"

Hitler's first idea was to get all the Jews our of German territory and then the "Final Solution" was to rid the world of Jews

Don't romanticize history