Today, Lola lives in New York City. She was born in 1929 in a small village near Lodz, Poland.

Lola remembers as a five-year old child the other children in the neighborhood accusing her of killing Jesus (the deicide). She had no idea who Jesus even was. Soon after the war began, Lola and her family were forced into the Lodz Ghetto.

The Jews in the Lodz ghetto suffered frequent aktions and mass deportations. To avoid their own deportation, her father decided that the family would escape to the Polish side of Lodz and hide in an abandoned home’s basement. Sadly, her father, her brother, several cousins, and approximately other 200 Jewish people were murdered by the Nazis who disposed of the bodies by burning them.

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.

• 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