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Standard 5.3

5.3 - Demonstrate an understanding of the economic, political, and social effects of World War II, the Holocaust, and their aftermath (i.e., 1930–1950) on the United States and South Carolina.

Grade(s): 5

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Pincus Kolender | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Pincus Kolender | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Pincus Kolender was born in 1926 in Poland. In 1940 synagogues, schools, and businesses were closed to Jews, who were placed in ghettos. One always felt trapped in the ghetto. The Nazis treated people...

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Rev. George Chassy | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Rev. George Chassy | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Reverend George Chassy, an Episcopal priest in Columbia, joined the Air Force right after Pearl Harbor. He was part of the invasion at Normandy Beach. He found it incredible what Nazi power had done...

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Trude Heller | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Trude Heller | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Trude Heller's family narrowly escaped deportation to a concentration camp, but still had to live through other anxieties. At 14, she was made to quit school, and the family was forced out of their...

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Max Heller | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Max Heller | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Max Heller was born in Vienna in 1919 into an orthodox Jewish home. His father was a businessman. Heller drew strength from the Jewish community and from non-Jewish friends. Due to anti-Semitism...

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Robert D. Turner | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Robert D. Turner | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

This West Columbia native was drafted in 1945 and sent to Germany. The soldiers he was with discovered the remnants of a concentration camp which Germans had just left. They saw the bodies of people...

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Horace Berry | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Horace Berry | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Born in 1920 in Greer, S.C., Horace Berry graduated from Clemson in 1941 and entered the service. As part of Patton's army, he was assigned to bury the dead and send surviving Jews to hospitals in...

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Margot Freudenberg, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Margot Freudenberg, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Born in Germany, Margot Freudenberg grew accustomed at a very early age to being part of a minority. Her family lived in a large academic Jewish community of professors and doctors. Upon the Gestapo's...

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Margot Freudenberg, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Margot Freudenberg, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Francine Taylor, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Francine Taylor, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Francine Taylor was born in Poland in 1928. Her family moved to France when she was two years old. They were living in Paris on June 14, 1940, when the French capital fell to the Germans. Suddenly the...

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Francine Taylor, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Francine Taylor, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Hugo Schiller | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Hugo Schiller | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Hugo Schiller grew up in Germany in the 1930s, hearing about Hitler. His parents were forced to sell their business. In 1938, his father was arrested. His education in a public school ended when it...

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Paul Pritcher | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Paul Pritcher | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Born in Orangeburg County, Paul Pritcher was drafted into the military in 1943. He knew about the concentration camps, but had no firsthand knowledge. He was with the first troops to arrive at...

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Jadzia Stern, Part 1 | S. C Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Jadzia Stern, Part 1 | S. C Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Those born in Poland knew that people in Europe pointed a finger at Jews all the time; some still do today. When the Germans invaded Poland, some Jews fled with Gentiles or underground, but most were...

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Jadzia Stern, Part 2 | S.C. Voices | Lessons from the Holocaust

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Jadzia Stern, Part 2 | S.C. Voices | Lessons from the Holocaust

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Lewis Rossinger, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lesson from the Holocaust

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Lewis Rossinger, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lesson from the Holocaust

Lewis Rossinger was born in 1938 in Hungary. Anti-Semitism was widespread and bullies in school called him a "dirty Jew." Rossinger was caught by the Gestapo and taken to a railroad station to be...

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Lewis Rossinger, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Lewis Rossinger, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Lewis Rossinger was born in 1938 in Hungary. Anti-Semitism was widespread and bullies in school called him a "dirty Jew." Rossinger was caught by the Gestapo and taken to a railroad station to be...

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Gerald Jablon | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Gerald Jablon | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Born in Germany in 1906, Gerald Jablon saw anti-Semitism displayed in teachers' attitudes toward Jewish students. He was sent to a work camp to dig ditches; there was no room to sleep. No one knows...

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Allen Carson Wise | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Allen Carson Wise | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Allen Wise is a native of Saluda, S.C. Graduating from medical school in 1943, he joined the Army and went to Germany. In 1945, his unit found a barn full of emaciated prisoners who had been burned to...

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Leah Starkman, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Leah Starkman, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

When the Germans invaded Belgium, Leah Starkman and her family evacuated deep into France where they stayed until her parents were arrested. Later the children were shipped from one house to another...

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Leah Starkman, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Leah Starkman, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Bert Gosschalk, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Bert Gosschalk, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

All five members of this Jewish family survived the World War II Nazi persecution in Holland, their home. Jewish refugees were trained in centers, by rote lessons, not to have ideas of their own or to...

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Bert Gosschalk, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Bert Gosschalk, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Cela Miller, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Cela Miller, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Cela Miller grew up in Poland during the 1920s. When the war started, the Germans burned towns and homes; removed priests, professors, and Jews. Those who turned in Jews got a kilogram of sugar. She...

Joe Engel | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Cela Miller, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Cela Miller, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust