Lucy, one of the oldest Holocaust survivors, was born in 1921 in Berlin, Germany. She had a brother one year older. At the time of the video, she was about to turn 104 years old. Lucy was 12 when Hitler rose to power. She knew that her classmates were turning away from her because of their fear that they would be targeted for being friends with a Jew. She witnessed the effects of Kristallnacht in person.

At the completion of this lesson, the student will be able 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.
• Understand the roles of rescuers, bystanders, and upstanders during the Holocaust.
• Apply the lessons of the Holocaust to modern-day antisemitism and other forms of hatred that you are aware of.

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)
• https://www.ushmm.org/teach/fundamentals/age-appropriateness 

For The Teacher: the information included here will help you inform your students and answer questions that may arise: 

• 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