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Standard 7-4.5

7-4.5 Summarize the causes and course of World War II, including drives for empire, appeasement and isolationism, the invasion of Poland, the Battle of Britain, the invasion of the Soviet Union, the "Final Solution," the Lend-Lease program, Pearl Harbo...

Grade(s): 7

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2011

South Carolina Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust - Teaching Lesson Three

Lesson

Grades: 7, 10, 11

The Holocaust lessons were created to help students learn about the Holocaust from the testimonies of Holocaust survivors. Lesson 3 shares the recollections of a 12-year-old girl whose entire family...

Why Study History - Return to Normandy

Lesson

Grades: 5, 7, 11

With an understanding of the importance of the D-Day invasion to the people of France, and to the world in helping end the tyranny of fascism and the oppression of Hitler’s Nazi regime, answer the...

South Carolina Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust - Teaching Lesson Two

Lesson

Grades: 7, 10, 11

Lesson two deals with the life experiences of young people under Hitler's Germany. The goal of this lesson is to focus on the Holocaust experiences of South Carolinians to personalize the experience...

Map - Concentration Camps and Killing Centers

Episode 11

Photo

Grades: 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

A death camp or killing center was specifically designed for mass murder. This map shows the locations of the concentration camps.

Map - Holocaust Deaths

Episode 10

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

The map shows the numbers of Jews killed by the Nazis in each country.

Holocaust Timeline

Episode 12

Document

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

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...

Holocaust Glossary | Holocaust Forum

Document

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

Video

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

Video

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

Video

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...

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

Video

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

Video

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...

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

Video

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

Born in 1917 in Poland, Max Krautler lived there until the outbreak of the war. He grew up amidst anti-Semitism and rumors of Hitler in the newspaper prior to the war. His family was moved into a...

Leo Diamantstein, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Video

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

Living in constant fear, the Diamantstein family fled from place to place—to a large Jewish community in Frankfurt; to the apartment of friends in Milan, Italy; to Como, Italy, escaping barefoot in...

Paula Popowski | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Video

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

Paula Popowski was born in Poland in 1923 in a predominantly Jewish city. "I came from a very orthodox family. I didn't socialize with Gentiles. Jews and Gentiles didn't mix in public school." In the...

Lon Redman | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

In April 1945, just before the war's end, Lon Redman encountered his first concentration camp—Flossenburg. There was no organized resistance against the American soldiers. They easily evacuated the...

Martha Bauer | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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

Martha Bauer and her family lived in Belgium. When Hitler took over, children were taught to hate all Jews. She was careful with childhood friendships and would not even walk with non-Jewish friends...

Felix Bauer | 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 Vienna in 1914, Felix Bauer lived with anti-Semitism even before Hitler's takeover of Austria. When the Nazis invaded, his father said, "Nobody will do anything to me." But the killings...

Ethel Stafford | S.C Voices: Lessons of Holocaust

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

Born in New York, Ethel Stafford graduated from nurses' training in 1944, went in the Army, and was transferred to Europe. She didn't know what was happening to Jews. The medical staff she was with...

Senator John Drummond | S.C. Voices | Lessons from the Holocaust

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Born in Greenwood, S.C., in 1919, John Drummond joined the Air Force and went to England. He was captured by the Nazis and shipped to a prison camp in Frankfurt where Americans were interrogated. Next...

Senator Strom Thurmond | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

Senator Strom Thurmond was with the 1st Army all through the war in Europe. They encountered Buchenwald near Leipzig, and he recalls "never having seen the like of what I saw there." He relays that...

Henry Allen | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Grades: 3 4 5 6 7 8

The Horry County native was sent to Fort Bragg, N.C. and then to Europe in 1945. In April 1945 at Ohrdruf Death Camp, he saw stacks of dead bodies and those left alive suffering from acute...