The Holocaust was a genocide in which approximately six million Jews were killed by Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime and their collaborators.
Thanks to a grant from the South Carolina Council on the Holocaust, SCETV created a forum on the Holocaust to provide teachers access to a variety of resources when teaching their students about this tragic chapter from human history. This curriculum package is made up of a teacher's guide and interviews with South Carolinians who survived the Holocaust and those who liberated the concentration camps or witnessed the atrocities that took place at them.
In the Seared Souls documentary, the interviews were combined with dramatic archival footage for a powerful and moving record of the inhumanity that was experienced during the Holocaust.
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"I felt like this can't be happening. Why would it be happening? People acted worse than animals, and it was people I knew. What happens to people to bring something like this on?"—Trude Heller...
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"One day we heard someting that was very disturbing to all of us. We heard for the first time about Auschwitz in Poland. That's where the killing was done. That we would be sent there, and that we...
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"You had to keep it in your mind: 'I'm going to live. I'm going to survive.' If you lost the will, that was it. You had to have a strong will to survive." —Pincus Kolender, Charleston, Advice on How...
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"No one had any compassion or any kind of a nice word to say to us. There was no one to say, 'It's going to get better,' or, 'Don't worry.' At no time had you the luxury of hearing anything like that...
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"When I tell the story of my life, it takes me quite a while to get back to normal. I get nightmares. I don't mind having nightmares in order that future generations can benefit from it." —Ben Stern...
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The map shows the numbers of Jews killed by the Nazis in each country.
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A death camp or killing center was specifically designed for mass murder. This map shows the locations of the concentration camps.
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Learn the series of events that led to the Holocaust and related events that occurred during this period.. 1933 January 30: Hitler appointed chancellor of Germany. March 5: Hitler receives strong vote...
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Students will explore those who experienced the Holocaust and now live in South Carolina.
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Remind students that all of the South Carolinians they have read about so far were either survivors of the Holocaust or American soldiers who saw the horrors of the concentration camps at liberation...
South Carolina Council on the Holocaust
South Carolina Council on the Holocaust - The South Carolina Council on the Holocaust was established to develop an educational program to prevent future atrocities similar to the systematic program...
