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Standard USHC-7

USHC-7 - The student will demonstrate an understanding of the impact of World War II on the United States and the nation’s subsequent role in the world.

Grade(s): 9, 10, 11, 12

Subject(s): Social Studies

Year: 2011

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

Joe Engel | 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...

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

Joe Engel | 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...

Joe Engel | 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...

Joe Engel | 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...

Joe Engel | 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...

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

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

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...

Joe Engel | 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...

Joe Engel | 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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

Felix Bauer | 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...

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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 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 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 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...