Synthesizing our learning about the holocaust
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This document summarizes and provides resources for a workshop on understanding the voices and choices of young people during the Holocaust. It discusses the film and book "I'm Still Here: Salvaged Pages" which features diary excerpts from young writers during the Holocaust, similar to Anne Frank. It then outlines some teaching strategies to help students understand the historical context and timeline of events leading up to and during the Holocaust. Some specific resources mentioned include pages on the Weimar Republic and Nazi propaganda, including a propaganda quote targeting German youth. It also references a talk about a boy named Alfons Heck and how propaganda influenced him.
Synthesizing our learning about the holocaust
- 1. UNDERSTANDING THE VOICES AND CHOICES OF YOUNG PEOPLE DURING THE HOLOCAUST June 29-30, 2015 Synthesizing Our Learning About the Holocaust
- 2. Im Still Here: Salvaged Pages The film, Im Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust is based upon the book Salvaged Pages: Young Writers Diaries of the Holocaust. The diary excerpts read in the film come from the actual pages of the young writers. Like Anne Frank, who wrote her diary while in hiding in Amsterdam, these young writers did not know if they would survive or if their diaries would be discovered and read. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_cpvkIU6IY
- 3. Human Timeline Rationale : The human timeline teaching strategy uses movement to help students understand and remember the chronology of events. Setting historical context of period of time leading up to the Holocaust, along with the chronology of events as they come up in Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl.
- 4. Weimar Republic Resource Page https://www.facinghistory.org/weimar
- 5. Propaganda and Hitler Youth Source: http://research.calvin.edu/ german-propaganda-archive/hj-wochenparole.htm The dead of the great war of 1914- 1918 have been avenged. The burden that our fathers had to bear after giving up a war they had not lost has been taken from them. The whole world looks at us with great respect! We are armed for the final battle against England. German youth, remain loyal, ready to sacrifice, obedient and alert! Captain Ziersch/ Bearer of the Knights Cross #24/1940: 19-25 August
- 6. Alfons Heck and Heil Hitler
- 7. Think Pair - Share What happened to Alfons Heck as a young boy? What led him from having Jewish friends to only feeling sorry for watching his friend being deported? What role did propaganda play in influencing him ( in his own words)? Which forms of propaganda did he find most effective?
- 8. Journaling Keeping in mind all the voices weve come across, how does identity influence our choices?
Editor's Notes
- Evidence Gathering Reminder Show 3:30 (Klaus Langer 6:12 Peter Feigl 27:05 Petr Ginz 34:00 Anonymous girl
- U-shape, circle or straight line depending on number of people. Set out all dates, ask some people to pick two consecutive dates. Assign 5-6 to read out loud passages from AF. SET UP THE WEIMAR RESOURCE PAGE AS THEY ARE DOING THE EXPLORATION OF DATES. Print at least 32 events
- Once settled, point them to the webpage. https://www.facinghistory.org/weimar
- This page includes nine weekly quotation posters issued by the Propaganda Office of the Hitler Youth headquarters in Berlin. According to the catalog of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, about 32 of these were issued in 1940, after which publication was suspended.
- Confessions of a Hitler Youth: Think Pair Share (Share). We will be hearing the experience of a young boy who was part of the Hitler Youth Movement. As you watch this, remember consider the question How does identity influence choices we make? (Show 1:53 13? minutes after Preview, etc..)
- T-P-S
- End with Terrence Roberts intro