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528 Unit VI: Survival, Liberation, and Legacy Unit Goal: The students will recognize and demonstrate empathy for the immensity of the human destruction caused by the Holocaust, for the determination and courage required to go on to build new lives, and for the world's struggle to confront the issues of genocide and moral responsibility to act as "rescuer." Performance Objectives Teaching/Learning Strategies and Activities Instructional Materials/Resources Students will be able to: 1. Discuss the liberation of the camps and A. Survival, Liberation, and Legacy the role of the liberators as witnesses in the post war world. B. Survival and Liberation 2. Analyze and discuss the unique role of 1. "Armageddon Revisited: from the 1. "Armageddon Revisited…" by Paul Zell. those Jews who had escaped their Nazi Holocaust to D-Day, A Survivor's/ Two readings from his personal memoirs persecutors and later returned as Liberator's Tale" by Paul Zell. Two are included in the guide. liberators. readings included in guide with lessons. Paul Zell was a young boy in Vienna, Austria when Kristallnacht convinced his father that the family 2. Visit Internet web sites listed in lesson in had to find a way out of Austria. Later, guide for additional information about living in the United States, Zell returns rescue and liberation. to Europe as a member of the U.S. Army. In the second reading, Zell describes his arrival at Buchenwald and the impact that it has upon him. 2. Liberation: Teens In Concentration 3. Reading selected from a volume of the Camps and the Teen Soldiers Who series Teen Witnesses to the Holocaust. Liberated Them. Part of a series Author of volume is E. Tina Tito. called Teen Witnesses to the Holocaust. Lesson in guide. 3. Explore the meaning of the term "survivor's 3. Carol Matas novel After the War. 4. Two novels about liberation and building a guilt" and the added psychological burden Ruth, a 15-year-old survivor, finds new new life - After the War by Carol Matas it places upon a survivor who experiences hope as she works in an underground and Anna Is Still Here by Ida Voss. it. organization to take children to Palestine. 4. Demonstrate an understanding an empathy for the difficulty survivors faced in 4. Anna Is Still Here by Ida Voss. Novel 529 Performance Objectives Teaching/Learning Strategies and Activities Instructional Materials and Resources Students will be able to: finding the strength and courage to begin to about a Dutch survivor who struggles build new lives. to find meaning in life while coming to terms with the haunting memories of her existence as a hidden child. Lesson in guide. 5. Aranka Siegel, author of Upon the 5. Grace in the Wilderness: After 5. Explain the need for significant health care Head of a Goat, is also the author of Liberation 1945-1948 by Aranka Siegel. of many of the survivors and the many this story of survival, liberation, and victims who were too weakened by their the search for a new life. It is called abusive treatment in the Holocaust to Grace in the Wilderness: After recover. Liberation 1945-1948. 6. Describe the desperate search by 6. To Life by Ruth Minsky Sender. 6. Two readings in the guide from the Ruth survivors for news of family and friends. Guide Minsky Sender story of her liberation and contains two readings from the authors struggle to build a new life. Beyond the 7. Explore the significance of the birth of sequel to her book The Cage. Yellow Star to America by Inge children to the survivors and the custom of Readings and lessons in guide. Auerbach is also a follow-up to her first using family names. book about life in Terezin camp. 7. My Hundred Children by Lena 8. Describe the hostility and violence Kuchler-Silberman. Reading and 7. Reading from Lena Kuchler-Silberman's rejection that many survivors experienced lesson. There is a follow-up news true story My Hundred Children. when they tried to return to their country of story and lesson by Norman Salsitz Following the readings is the newspaper origin after liberation. and Stanley Kaish on the role of article by Norman Salsitz and Stanley Salsitz in Lena's story. Kaish "The 100 Children and the Jewish 9. Demonstrate an understanding of the 'Righteous Gentile' " from the New Jersey special meaning of a homeland for the 8. Lydia, Queen of Palestine by Uri Jewish News, April 19, 2001 survivors who had been torn and driven Orlev and The Boy From Over There from the lands of their births. By Tamar Bergman. Two novels set in 8. Uri Orlev novel Lydia, Queen of Palestine Palestine/Israel in post war world. And The Boy From Over There by Tamar Lesson for each novel. Bergman. 530 Performance Objectives Teaching/Learning Strategies and Activities Instructional Materials and Resources Students will be able to: 10 Demonstrate an understanding that many C. Memory and Remembrance 1. The Shadow Children by Steven Schnur. individuals, groups, communities, and 1. The Shadow Children by Steven . nations must still come to terms with their Schnur. Lesson on this novel about a actions during the Holocaust. community's difficulty in coming to terms with the Nazi seizure of Jew 11.Demonstrate an understanding of the children hiding in their community. complexity but the significance of making good moral and ethical choices. 2. Exercise on quotes reflecting ethical 2. Exercise included in guide. choices. D. War Trials 12. Explain the importance and significance of 1. Reading and lesson on the Limits of 1. Limits of War reading in guide on the the Nuremberg War Trials. War from a pamphlet published by the Nuremberg War Trials. Xerox Corporation. 13. Describe the outcome of the Nuremberg 1. Shin's Tricycle by Tatsuharu Kodama. War Trials. E. Post War World Also visit the Internet site of the Sadako 1. Shin's Tricycle by Tatsuharu Kodama. Peace Cranes project. See Internet site Lesson in the guide. list in guide. 14. Explore some of the questions and fears raised by the use of the atomic bomb. 2. Lesson from The Christmas 2. Janice Cohn's The Christmas Menorahs. Menorahs: How a Town Fought Hate Also videos on incidents "Not in Our 15. Explore and analyze the rise in hate by Janice Cohn. Recounting of a true Town." See video list. crimes in society today. incident in Billings, Montana in modern USA. 3. So Far From the Sea by Eve Bunting. 16. Explore and examine how hate groups use modern technology to spread their 3. Story of a family's return to the message of hate. Manzanar War Relocation Center in Eve Buntings's tale So Far from the 17. Discuss and analyze the record of the Sea. Book is written on an elementary United States in regard to the War level but has some sophisticated Relocation Centers where Americans of concepts to examine. Lesson in Japanese ancestry where imprisoned guide. during World War II 4. Peacebound Trains by Haemi 4. Peacebound Trains by Haemi Balgassi. Balgassi is set in the time of the Korean War and after. Lesson in 531 Teaching/Learning Strategies and Activities Instructional Materials and Resources Performance Objectives Students will be able to: F. Violence, Discrimination, Ethnic Cleansing and Genocide 18. Define the terms apartheid, slavery, hate crime, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. 1. Kaffir Boy - An Autobiography by 1. Kaffir Boy - An Autobiography by Mark Mark Mathabane. Reading and lesson Mathabane. Reading included in guide. on apartheid in South Africa. Internet search on apartheid and its legacy in South Africa. 19. Discuss the legacy of pain and anguish of post war policies of prejudice and 2. Reading from One Boy from Kosovo 2. Reading in guide for One Boy from discrimination and of genocide in places by Trish Marx and Cindy Karp. Kosovo by Trish Marx and Cindy Karp as such as Cambodia, Rwanda, former Lesson and reading included. Follow well as readings from I Dream of Peace. Yugoslavia, East Timor, Sudan, etc. up readings and lesson with quotes of children from the book I Dream of 3. Read Zlata's Diary by Zlata Filopvic or 20. Analyze how we might work today to Peace. read the excerpt featured in February 28, prevent genocide and "ethnic cleansing" in 1994 issue of Newsweek. the future. G. Lessons to be learned 4. Internet search of sites listed in lesson for 21. Explain why it is important for us to study 1. Exercise: What Lessons are to be I Dream of Peace. the Holocaust and genocide. learned from the Holocaust? All materials in guide. 22. Analyze why the deniers and revisionists claim the Holocaust and other genocides 2. The Terrible Things: An Allegory of 1. The Terrible Things: An Allegory of the never occurred. the Holocaust by Eve Bunting. Holocaust by Eve Bunting. Lesson in the guide. Much more than 23. Demonstrate an understanding of the a child's book, this story can be used 2. Poetry of Holocaust survivor Alexander struggle of survivors to build new lives and by any level, child to adult. Kimel in guide. Additional poems and the tremendous importance of their work on Internet site. See lesson for web testimonial legacy. 3. "I Cannot Forget" and "The Creed of a address. Holocaust Surivivor." Poems by Alexander Kimel. Poems and lesson in guide. 3. Samples of Postage stamps are in guide 4. "Teaching the Holocaust Through as well as web site for viewing more 532 Performance Objectives Teaching/Learning Strategies and Activities Instructional Materials and Resources Students will be able to: Stamps." Lesson and materials in Stamps.
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