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Standard 5.3.CE

5.3.CE Analyze the cause and effect of government-sponsored policies within the United States and Europe related to the status of different groups, to include the Holocaust.

Grade(s): 5

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

Luba Goldberg, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons From The Holocaust

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Luba Goldberg nee Schreibman was born in 1921 in Romania, not far from Russia. Her family contained many well-respected Romanian doctors. With Romania part of the WWII German Axis, it enacted the same...

Victory | South Carolina's Greatest Generation

Episode 9

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Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12

Thirty three days after the death of President Roosevelt, Germany surrenders. The allies celebrate their victory over the Nazis. In 1945, after the two atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and...

Ernest Henderson And Tuskegee | South Carolina's Greatest Generation

Episode 5

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Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12

Ernest Henderson, a Tuskegee Airman, discusses Eleanore Roosevelt's visit to the airfield and her interest in flying in one of their airplanes, and so she did. When she got back to Washington, she...

A Time to Fight, Part 7

Episode 7

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Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12

The Tuskegee Airmen were African-American pilots during WWII. Before the war, the Army thought African-Americans could only be used as laborers. African-Americans faced all sorts of prejudice and...

The Way Home, Part 5

Episode 5

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

On August 11, 1945, the Emperor of Japan accepted the Potsdam Declaration, which specified the unconditional surrender of Japan. The war was over, the Americans rejoiced, and the troops headed home...

The Way Home, Part 3

Episode 3

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Okinawa was the final Japanese island before the mainland. It would be the largest amphibious invasion in history. The Americans had to control the air and the water. The orders came that the...

The Way Home, Part 2

Episode 2

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

With its navy destroyed, the Japanese have come to recognize that their last line of defense is through suicide attacks on American ships. From the American ships, the kamikazes looked like a swarm of...

The Way Home, Part 1

Episode 1

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

This segment focuses on the racial discrimination that existed during World War II and how it affected those who served their country. The military was segregated. There were African Americans from...

Vanishing Generation, Part 2

Episode 2

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Grades: 5 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

World War II occurred during the 1940s when segregation was still the norm in America. The African Americans who fought were in a segregated army even overseas in England. One of the reasons the...

South Carolina's "Dixiecrat" Movement | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 6

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Grades: 5 8

Postwar politics in South Carolina were affected by the many changes that the war had brought. Many new citizens flocked to the state, partly because of the many military bases there, and partly...

Hampton Prisoner of War Camp | History of SC Slide Collection

Episode 14

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Grades: 5 8

Several prisoner-of-war camps were established in South Carolina to house captured Germans. This is the street of a camp in Hampton, photographed around 1944. Courtesy of Mildred B. Rivers.

Overview IV: The Holocaust

Episode 4

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

"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...

Overview III: Prewar Nazi Germany | Holocaust

Episode 3

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

"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...

Overview II: Hitler's Rise | Holocaust

Episode 2

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

In general the art of all great popular leaders at all times consists in not scattering the attention of a people but rather in concentrating it always on one single opponent. —from Mein Kampf by...

Overview I: A Short History of Anti-Semitism | Holocaust

Episode 1

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

"I think the Holocaust happened because someone said, 'You're different, you don't belong.' " —High School Student "When our children were young, they always used to ask how come people have...

Holocaust Glossary | Holocaust Forum

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

Learn key terms from the Holocaust. Anti-Semitism. Acts or feelings against Jews; takes the form of prejudice, dislike, fear, discrimination, and persecution. Aryan. A term used by the Nazis to mean a...

Tom Grossman, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Tom Grossman, born May 1, 1927 in Budapest, Hungary, discusses his father, who was a retired army officer, and his mother; his two sisters; the interactions of Jews and non-Jewish; antisemitism in...

Tom Grossman, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Tom Grossman, born May 1, 1927 in Budapest, Hungary, discusses his father, who was a retired army officer, and his mother; his two sisters; the interactions of Jews and non-Jewish; antisemitism in...

Dientje Kalisky, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Dientje Kalisky was born in Holland in 1938. Her grandfather and aunt were sent to a concentration camp and never returned. "When I was four we went into hiding. My parents didn't explain what was...

Rudy Herz, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Born in Cologne, Germany, in 1925, Rudy Herz heard of Hitler in school when, in 1935, textbooks took on a Germanic nationalistic slant, the Swastika flag was flown, and Jews lost privileges. His...

Luba Goldberg, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Rudy Herz, Part 5 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Born in Cologne, Germany, in 1925, Rudy Herz heard of Hitler in school when, in 1935, textbooks took on a Germanic nationalistic slant, the Swastika flag was flown, and Jews lost privileges. His...

Dientje Kalisky, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Dientje Kalisky was born in Holland in 1938. Her grandfather and aunt were sent to a concentration camp and never returned. "When I was four we went into hiding. My parents didn't explain what was...

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

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Higher Education

Born near Warsaw in 1922, Renee Kolender experienced a good childhood until war broke out, ending school, ending everything. Children were taken from the streets to work each day. Her family was...