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This indicator is intended to encourage inquiry into the significant causes of World War I and the impacts of the Treaty of Versailles, including its failure to prevent future global conflicts.

Grade(s): 10

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2019

Horace Berry | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Luba Goldberg, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons From The Holocaust

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

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...

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Overview IV: The Holocaust

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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...

Overview III: Prewar Nazi Germany | Holocaust

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Overview III: Prewar Nazi Germany | 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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Overview II: Hitler's Rise | Holocaust

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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

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

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"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...

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

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

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...

Leah Starkman, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Tom Grossman, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Leah Starkman, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Rudy Herz, Part 5 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

Horace Berry | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Peter Becker, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Peter Becker, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Peter Becker was born in Munich in 1929. At the special Nazi school he attended, students were taught to be political or military leaders and that Hitler was the savior who would lift Germany up. In...

Horace Berry | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Peter Becker, Part 3 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Peter Becker, Part 3 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

Horace Berry | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Peter Becker, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Peter Becker, Part 1 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

Horace Berry | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust Leo Diamantstein, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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Leo Diamantstein, Part 2 | S.C. Voices: Lessons from the Holocaust

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

Joe Engel was born near Warsaw, Poland in 1927. His father ran a luncheonette grocery. He went to public school in a small Jewish community and felt the animosity created by anti-Semitism. In 1942 all...

Horace Berry | 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...