Jack remembers the virulent antisemitism he faced in Poland as a teenager. Jews were shunned. His friends avoided him and treated him as if he never existed. He remembers when his synagogue was burned. Everything was in flames. In 1939 he is forced into the ghetto. Six families to an apartment. If a person tried to leave, they were shot. After one year, the Nazis liquidated the ghetto. They buried all the babies alive in mass graves.

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.
• 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.

• 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