Arie S.
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Arie S was born in 1937 in Krakow, Poland into a rich family. He remembers as a two-year old child that the Germans arrived on horseback. For a two- year-old, he remembers quite a lot. He and his mother received German passports soon after the Germans arrived. To pass as Germans little Arie had to learn to pray as a Christian in Polish. This was their fate from 1939 – 1942. At his time, his father disappeared and he and his mother traveled by train to Jesco, a village nearby. When they are outed as Jews by a boy on the train, his mother instructed him to get off the train at the next stop and find his way to his grandfather’s home. He was about five years old at the time and completely alone.
In this course about Arie S’ story, 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.
Before You Begin Teaching about the Holocaust:
Please refer to this guide from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for important pedagogical information for all teachers of Holocaust education:
- Guidelines for Teaching About the Holocaust — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (ushmm.org):
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Horrors of Auschwitz: The Numbers Behind WWII’s Deadliest Concentration Camp: https://www.history.com/news/auschwitz-concentration-camp-numbers
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Timeline of major events that occurred before, during, and immediately after the Holocaust: https://www.yadvashem.org/holocaust/resource-center/timeline.html
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Horrors of Auschwitz: The Numbers Behind WWII’s Deadliest Concentration Camp: https://www.history.com/news/auschwitz-concentration-camp-numbers
- Other Holocaust Survivors’ Testimonies:
https://thelastones.education/courses/
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Arie’s Testimony
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