Alternate Assignment Part 1

“The Pianist” Alternate Assignment Part 1

EngI 1

Directions ● Follow the directions on each printed slide.

● Some slides ask that you watch a youtube video and answer questions as you watch. You will need headphones and internet access.

● Other slides ask you questions, such as bellwork. In this case, you are given space on the slide to write down your answer.

● Any other materials/sheets that are asked of you to use and/or complete are provided.

All work MUST be completed and turned in when the class is finished watching the movie. 2 Monday, 25 March 2019 BELLWORK In the slide below, answer the follow prompt, using complete sentences….

Write for 8 minutes about what your reaction would be if you saw this on the news. What would you say? How would you feel?

Imagine that you are watching the news on TV and you see an urgent report. The government has just passed a new law that says that anyone who does not have blue eyes is no longer a complete citizen. People who don’t have blue eyes will not be allowed to attend the same schools as everyone else, they will not be allowed to date people who do have blue eyes, and they will not be allowed to become doctors,

lawyers, journalists, basketball players, or rappers. Anyone who does not follow.

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Stereotype Prejudice Oppression

Complete the front side of the “Stereotype - Prejudice - Oppression” worksheet.

#2 On the back of the same Sheet...

Answer all the questions on the back of the same worksheet

6 #3 Read the biographical information on 2 Holocaust survivors.

Joseph Morton’s Ellis Lewin

Joseph Morton was born Joseph Mortkowitz on July 11, 1924, The camp was later closed and the three were sent to Mühldorf, a in Lodz, Poland, to Chaskel and Zisla Mortkowitz. He had five satellite camp of Dachau. There, Joseph caught typhus and in the siblings: Abraham, Sarah, Samuel, Lazar, and Jacob. Joseph’s father Spring 1945, was transferred back to Kaufering without his father worked as a contract tailor for a manufacturing company. Joseph and brother. Although he was very ill, Joseph was forced on a death went to public school and had only Jewish friends. Life began to march to a different satellite camp of Dachau, München-Allach, change for the family after the Nazi occupation of Poland when where he was later liberated by the United States Army in early anti-Jewish legislation forced Jews to wear yellow Stars of David on Summer 1945. their clothing. After liberation, Joseph was taken to a hospital in Allach, Germany. In May 1940, the Lodz ghetto was created and all Jews were forced His brother and father found him there and they all went to to live in a confined area of the city. Joseph’s father became a Feldafing, a displaced persons’ camp nearby. Joseph and his brother member of the ghetto police and early on was able to save one of registered with Jewish youth refugees to immigrate to Canada. In Joseph’s aunts from being deported because of his position. Joseph June 1948, Joseph and Abraham immigrated to Montreal while their and his family were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau when the father remained in Germany to wait for an immigration visa to the ghetto was liquidated in August 1944. United States. Joseph met his future wife, Janet Bartman, while living in Montreal. Within a few months of arriving in Canada, Joseph and Abraham immigrated to the United States to be with their father When the family arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Joseph’s sisters, who had recently emigrated there from Germany. mother, and brothers Lazar and Jacob were killed in the gas chambers. Joseph, his father, and his brother, Abraham, were selected for forced labor. A couple of weeks later, the three were In May 1950, Joseph’s fiancée, Janet, joined him in Chicago and the transported to Dachau. Joseph performed various construction couple was married. They had three children: Leo, Fred, and Ann. jobs at Kaufering, Lager IV, a sub-camp of Dachau. He was only Joseph worked and owned his own barber shop in Chicago. At the there for a couple of months before he and his father and brother time of Joseph’s interview in 1997, he and his wife had five were transferred to Landshut, another concentration camp in grandchildren: Jeremy, Amanda, Michael, Carly, and Brandon. Germany. 8 Ellis Lewin was born May 22, 1932, in Lodz, Poland, to Josef and In early 1945, the Germans evacuated prisoners from Chana Lewin. He had an older sister, Mariym. Ellis hoped one day to Auschwitz-Birkenau as the Russians approached. Separated from his become a musician like his father who was a highly regarded father, Ellis fought to survive on his own. Upon arrival at Kaufbeuren concert pianist. Ellis described the early years of his childhood as in Bavaria, Ellis worked in the kitchen and would sneak scraps to typical: vacationing with family, riding bikes, playing soccer, and other inmates until he was caught and whipped. After six weeks in getting into mischief. the camp, Ellis was transferred several more times to various work camps. Following a death march to Dachau in the spring of 1945, Ellis anxiously awaited liberation. Once freed by the Allies, he Ellis attended public school his first two years before being contracted typhoid fever and was hospitalized for a time. He then withdrawn and tutored at home. Ellis recalled feeling fear and lived in a displaced persons’ camp in Bavaria and worked as a valet anxiety even before the German invasion of Poland in 1939. Since for an American trucking company. the Lewin family already lived in the area designated as the Lodz ghetto, they did not have to leave their third floor apartment. Even as conditions worsened, Ellis took comfort in being with his family. In May 1946, Ellis immigrated to the United States. Three years after Winifred Fryer took Ellis into her foster home, Ellis was reunited with his father, Josef. They learned that when Mariym contracted a As a ghetto policeman, Ellis’ father, Josef, managed to keep the fever, she was sent to the gas chambers. Because she could do family together until the summer of 1944. During the liquidation of nothing to save Mariym, Chana went with her daughter to their the ghetto and despite attempts to hide, the Lewins were deported deaths. to Auschwitz-Birkenau. When the men and women were forcibly separated upon arrival, Ellis and his father said their last goodbyes to Chana and Mariym. Although Ellis was selected for the gas Ellis was drafted and served in the Korean War. Upon his discharge, chambers, Josef was able to save his son by bribing a Ukrainian Ellis met his future wife, Joan, an American from Cleveland. They had guard with diamonds. Ellis and Josef lived in a crowded, three children: Dennis, Debra, and Richard. At the time of Ellis’ disease-infested barracks among sick and dying prisoners for five interview in 1996, he and Joan had two grandchildren, Adam and weeks. Andrew. 9 #4 Watch the testimonies of these 2 Holocaust survivors

1. Joseph Morton’s Testimony https://youtu.be/8Lt1zThA9B Q 2. ...and then Ellis Lewin’s Testimony https://youtu.be/8K590Qyyfrw

Answer the following:

As you watch their testimonies, listen for and list specific examples of how ghettos during the Holocaust were different from their understanding of what is referred to as a “ghetto” today: ______

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In their testimonies, Ellis Lewin and Joseph Morton share some of their early feelings and experiences in the ghetto. How does Ellis say his life changed after being forced into the ghetto? What does Joseph share about his observations of life in the ghetto?

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Answer the following:

What images have begun to emerge for you about ghetto life after listening to these two testimonies?

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13 #5 The Lodz Ghetto Bridge

Analyze the following photograph of the Lodz Ghetto Bridge.

Remembering what Joseph Morton said in his testimony, think about what the Jews crossing the bridge were feeling as they looked down upon the scene below?

15 - background information -

Nazi ideology called for expanding the rule of Germany. After conquering Poland in September 1939 (after already controlling Austria and parts of Czechoslovakia), Germany sought to dominate the whole world along with its partners, and arrange it in a “new order” based on Nazi racial ideology. According to the Nazi racial view, the populations living in Poland were deemed to be Slavs, who were considered inferior and therefore treated as such.

#6 The Ghettos

Read the handout “The Ghettos”

& answer the questions on the next 2 slides

17 What were the Nazis’ intentions in closing Jews in the ghettos? ______

The Germans wanted to concentrate Jews living in the countryside into the larger cities, and establish ghettos in the vicinity of railroad junctions. What do you think was the purpose of concentrating Jews together in certain central locations? Why did the Germans want to establish ghettos near railway transports?

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Heydrich writes, “For the time being, the first step toward the final goal is the concentration of the Jews….” What do you think Heydrich meant by “for the time being”? What do you think Heydrich meant by “the final goal”? ______

Why did the Germans establish a Jewish Council, or Judenrat, in each ghetto? ______

How might the establishment of a Judenrat have given Jews in the ghetto a false sense of security? ______19 #7 #7 Lodz Ghetto

Read the handout “The Lodz Ghetto”

- background information -

The role of the ghetto was to control and confine Jews and that the situation in the ghetto led to Jews being weakened as well.

We will be looking at the Lodz Ghetto as a ‘Case Study’

21 #8 Watch Lodz Ghetto Testimonies and then complete the next two slides

1. Leo Berkenwald’s Testimony https://youtu.be/zPT8Jaz7Su0

2. ...and Milton Belfer’s Testimony https://youtu.be/INp7KCiDDjg

3. ...and then George Shainfarber’s https://youtu.be/C7ELJr8PrsY

Directions: As you watch and listen to the testimonies of Leo, Milton, and George, write down specific examples they hear in the testimonies about what life was like in the Lodz ghetto. Control Confine Weaken

23 Leo Berkenwald lived within the confines of what would eventually become the Lodz ghetto. Even though he was still living in the same city, how did his life change once the ghetto was created? ______

What does Milton Belfer’s testimony add to your understanding of life in the ghetto? What does Leo’s add? ______

What role did food play in George Shainfarber’s experience in the ghetto? ______24