Denise was born on June 21, 1938, in Paris, France, the fourth of six children (the sixth child was not yet born when the picture above was taken). In 1942, when Denise was just four years old, she remembers that her father, aunt, and uncle were taken from their home by the Nazis and deported to Auschwitz.

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.
• 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.

• Guidelines for Teaching About the Holocaust — United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (ushmm.org):

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

• Horrors of Auschwitz: The Numbers Behind WWII’s Deadliest Concentration Camp:
  https://www.history.com/news/auschwitz-concentration-camp-numbers

• 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