Ms.
Griggs' Holocaust Web Quest
(adapted from
Northfield Community School
http://www.ettc.net/contest01/ferguson/page5.html
February 23, 2006)
I. Background
History of the Holocaust:
Go to the Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://www.ushmm.org/topics/
Click on "Articles A-Z",
then look up, read, and answer the
questions for the following topics:
ANTI-SEMITISM
1. What does "anti-Semitism"
mean?
AUSCHWITZ
2. Where was Auschwitz
located?
3. What was the
"Black Wall"?
4. How many were killed at Auschwitz?
GENOCIDE
5. What is the definition for "Genocide"?
6. By whom and when was the word created?
GHETTOES
7. What were the Jewish ghettos?
8. How were these used by the
Nazi?
FINAL
SOLUTION
9. What was the objective of the "Final Solution"?
10. How many Jews died (list the amount for each different nationality separately)?
11. What percentage of European Jews was killed by 1939?
HOLOCAUST
12. What the word "Holocaust"
mean in Greek?
13. Persecution of Jews began with Adolf Hitler and the
Nazi Party's rise to power. What year was this?
KRISTALLNACHT
14. What does "Kristallnacht"
mean in English?
15. What did the Nazi do on "Kristallnacht"?
16. What was the outcome for Jews from "Kristallnacht"?
MEDICAL EXPERIMENTS
17. What sorts of
experiments did Dr. Mengele
conduct in his concentration camp?
NAZI PROPAGANDA
18. What were 8 types of media for propaganda that the Nazis used against
the Jews.
19. How were postcards from concentration camp prisoners used by
the Nazi?
20. How was Theresienstadt Ghetto used in Nazi propaganda?
POGROMS
21. What does "Pogrom"
mean?
RESCUE
22. Which country was most famous for help in rescuing Jews?
23. List five famous men who were "rescuers".
24. Why did several of these rescuers falsify "protective passes" for Jews?
THIRD REICH
25. What was Adolf Hitler's "racist
belief"?
WORLD WAR II
26. How did Germany start WWII?
27. What countries were the "Axis
Powers"?
D-DAY
28. What countries landed their allied forces in Normandy France
on June 6, 1944?
29. What was the Allies' objective for D-Day? (This is in the first paragraph)
CHILDREN: ID CARDS
(then click on "Judith Beaker"
. Listen to her first interview about the ghetto. Use headphones for this).
30. How did the man "Mottka"
help Judith and others in the ghetto?
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****If you want to view and read more
personal histories of survivors of the Holocaust click on this link:
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/phistories/
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II. ART FROM THE HOLOCAUST
http://art.holocaust-education.net/explore.asp?langid=1&submenu=
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/arts/art.htm
http://www.remember.org/image/
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/holocaust/art.htm
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/holocaust/photoessay.htm
Maus:
A Survivor's Tale
-- Art Spiegelman
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The famous symbol of the "Butterfly" denoting
"Hope."
Artwork by children and adults in Terezin
Ghetto (Theresienstadt,
Czechoslovakia)
“The Butterfly”
The last, the very last
So richly, brightly, dazzlingly yellow.
Perhaps if the sun’s tears would sing against a white stone…
Such, such a yellow
Is carried lightly ’way up high.
It went away I’m sure because it wished to kiss the world goodbye.
For seven weeks I’ve lived in here
Penned up inside this ghetto
But I have found my people here.
The dandelions call to me
And the white chestnut candles in the court.
Only I never saw another butterfly.
That butterfly was the last one
Butterflies don’t live in here
In the ghetto.
—Pavel Friedmana resident of Terezín Concentration Camp,
way station to Oswiecim,
a German extermination center, and “home” to 15,000 children in 1942.
Click here to print the
Holocaust Webquest worksheet