Sami
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Sami’s city of birth in red and the forced labor camp he and his family were deported to in yellow. Sami was born in 1939 in Chernowitz/Chernivtsi, a city in southwestern Ukraine, located in the historic region of Bukovina. At the time of this film, Sami is 86 years young. Chernowitz was, at one time, a part of the Austro-Hungarian and Romanian empires and a major cultural center often referred to as Little Vienna. It belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire from 1867 to 1918, and to Romania from 1918 to 1940.
Today, it is no longer in Romania, but it retains strong historical and cultural ties to the country. Throughout history, the population was a mix of Ukrainians, Romanians, Jews, Germans, and Poles.
In this course you will learn to:
- Define the Holocaust as the planned and systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of European Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945.
- Define antisemitism as prejudice against or hatred of Jewish people.
- Recognize the Holocaust as history’s most extreme example of antisemitism.
- Draw parallels between the past and the present to understand why we must study history.
- Arm themselves with facts so that when they are confronted with Holocaust denial, they can speak out.
- Guidelines for Teaching About the Holocaust — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (ushmm.org):
Horrors of Auschwitz: The Numbers Behind WWII’s Deadliest Concentration Camp:
https://www.history.com/news/auschwitz-concentration-camp-numbersTimeline of major events that occurred before, during, and immediately after the Holocaust:
https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/resource-center/timeline.html- Horrors of Auschwitz: The Numbers Behind WWII’s Deadliest Concentration Camp:
https://www.history.com/news/auschwitz-concentration-camp-numbers
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