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The
The Holocaust Primary Sources is a pack of 20 primary source that are printed on sturdy 8.5" X 11" card stock.
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The Holocaust Primary Sources are just what teachers need to help students learn how to analyze primary sources in order to meet Common Core State Standards!
Students participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations of history using historical documents. Students make observations, generate questions, organize information and ideas, think analytically, write persuasively or informatively, and cite evidence to support their opinion, hypotheses, and conclusions. Students learn how to integrate and evaluate information to deepen their understanding of historical events. As a result, students experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience.
The 20 documents in the
The Holocaust Primary Sources Pack are:
1. Photograph of German SA stormtroopers starting boycott of Jewish businesses in Berlin - signs say "Germans! Defend yourselves! Don't buy from Jews!" - April 1, 1933
2. Photograph of badge featuring the Star of David - Nazi regime forced Jews to wear it as a form of identification during Holocaust era
3. Diary entry of Edi Weinstein - Edi escaped from Treblinka concentration camp in Poland in 1942
4. List of people being transported to German concentration camps - the list includes last name, first name, date of birth, city of birth, profession, marital status, age, ability to work, address, and registration number - 1942
5. Photograph of Anne Frank in 1940 - Anne's diary detailing two years of hiding from German capture during WW II was published in 1947
6. Cover of report to the governments of the United Nations about actions of Nazis occupying Poland - first official government alert given to wartime allies about the Holocaust - December 1942
7. Photograph of Jews captured and forcibly pulled from dugouts during the Warsaw Ghetto uprising - May 1943
8. Drawing by Stefan Kryszak, survivor of Flossenburg concentration camp in Germany - circa 1940s
9. Photograph of Nazi guards selecting Hungarian Jews to be sent to the gas chamber at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp in Poland - May/June 1944
10. Aerial photograph of Auschwitz I concentration camp in Poland - August 25, 1944
11. Photograph of crematorium with bones visible inside - located at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany - April 4, 1945
12. Photograph of General Eisenhower, General Bradley, General Patton, and other U.S. Army officers viewing burned remains of prisoners held at Ohrdruf concentration camp in Germany - April 12, 1945
13. Photograph of Jewish slave laborers in their bunks at Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany - April 16, 1945
14. Photograph of wedding rings removed from Holocaust victims by the Germans - May 5, 1945
15. Photograph of starving prisoners in concentration camp in Ebensee, Austria - May 5, 1945
16. Photograph of survivors at Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria cheering U.S. Army soldiers one day after actual liberation - event was recreated at General Eisenhower's request - May 6, 1945
17. Page 2 of a 4-page letter from Pfc. Harold Porter, a young American medic, describing the concentration camp at Dachau, Germany - May 7, 1945
18. Photograph showing grave markers for victims in Wˆbbelin concentration camp in Germany - people in nearby town of Ludwigslust were forced to visit the camp, bury the dead, and attend the memorial service - May 8,1945
19. Photograph of Russian slave laborer among prisoners freed by the U.S. Army pointing out Nazi guard who brutally beat prisoners - May 14, 1945
20. Photograph of barbed wire fencing near entrance to Auschwitz I camp in Poland - wire would kill escapees with high-voltage electricity - photo May 2006
Your students will:
• think critically and analytically, interpret events, and question various perspectives of history.
• participate in active learning by creating their own interpretations instead of memorizing facts and a writer's interpretations.
• integrate and evaluate information provided in diverse media formats to deepen their understanding of historical events.
• experience a more relevant and meaningful learning experience.