Ruth

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Ruth

Categories: Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12
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About Course

Ruth Glazberg was born in 1930 in Chernowitz, Romania. (At the time of the film you will watch, Ruth is 95). Her brother, Manase, was seven years older and a gifted violinist. The arrival of the Nazis in 1940, changed her family’s lives forever. Ruth explained that the government and many of the people in Romania were extremely antisemitic.

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:

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

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What Will You 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.
  • To define antisemitism as prejudice against or hatred of Jewish people.
  • To recognize the Holocaust as history’s most extreme example of antisemitism.
  • To draw parallels between the past and the present to understand why we must study history.
  • To arm students with facts so that when they are confronted with Holocaust denial, they can speak out.

Course Content

Rut’s Interview
Watch Ruth Glasberg's interview.

  • Watch the Video
    15:35

About Ruth Glazberg

Video Key Terms
Match the definitions below with the correct term. The answer key follows.

Historical Facts

Discussion Questions
Here’s a streamlined set of discussion prompts—each question covers a distinct theme without overlap:

Resources

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