Erika was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1940 into a religious Jewish family. She had one older sister, Judith. Mr. Fabian was taken into a forced labor camp when Erika was only three years old, and Erika remembers nothing more about him. She later learned that he had been sent to Bergen-Belsen where he died of illness. Shortly thereafter, her family was forced out of their apartment into an area a few blocks away designated for only Jews…

In this course you will learn to:

The Holocaust was the planned, systematic, state-sponsored persecution and murder of six million Jews by Nazi Germany and its collaborators between 1933 and 1945. This genocide was fueled by antisemitism, which means prejudice against or hatred of Jewish people. The Holocaust is history’s most extreme example of antisemitism.

By learning Erika’s story, students arm themselves with truth. When they encounter Holocaust denial or antisemitism, they’ll have the knowledge and courage to speak out—and to ensure history is never forgotten.

• 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