Freddy
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Freddy grew up in a joyful loving home with two parents. His father, according to Freddy, was more Austrian than Jewish. They did go to synagogue, but they were not religious. He and his family had never heard of the gas chambers. His father, like many Jews, felt that Hitler wouldn’t touch them because they were Austrian first and Jews second. Hitler did not care if a Jewish family had converted to Christianity or did not practice Judaism.
In this course about Sami’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.
- Describe how the Nazis utilized various forms of propaganda to indoctrinate the German population.
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/
For the teacher: The information included will help you inform your students and answer their questions.
- Timeline 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
- This media essay provides interesting additional information about the Holocaust using maps: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/gallery/the-holocaust-maps
Course Content
Freddy’s Testimony
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