In this course about Julia’s story, 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.
• Examine the roles of bystanders, collaborators, perpetrators, and rescuers and the choices people made to help Jews at personal risk.
• Examine the origins, purposes, and conditions of different types of camps, including concentration and forced-labor camps, and study prisoners’ daily experiences.
• Examine the experiences of Holocaust survivors following liberation, including displacement, repatriation, relocation, and the physical and psychological struggles of survivors.

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 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