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Suggested Five Day Curriculum
Day 1
Judaism and Antisemitism
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Judaism and Jewry
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Prejudice/Antisemitism: Why do people hate?
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Humanize the Jewish experience
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History of Anti-Judaism and anti-Semitism
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Films: Camera of My Family, A Class Divided
Day 2
The Rise of the Nazis (1919-1933: Germany between the wars)
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Impact of World War I and Treaty of Versailles
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Political reality of the interwar years
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Failure of Weimar
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Nazi values/world view
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Film Clips: The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
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Homework: Timeline: Evolution to Genocide (1933-1941)
Day 3
Nazi Consolidation of Power and the "Jewish Question"
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Nazi Ideology: Ethnic nationalism, racism, lebensraum, anti-Bolshevism
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Laws and early stages of persecution (1933-1938)
(Use timeline as well as testimonies of victims to humanize the persecution.)
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Life in Nazi Germany
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Kristallnacht
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Films: Heil Hitler: Confessions of A Hitler Youth; Europa, Europa
Day 4:
Evolution to Genocide
Steps to the "Final Solution"
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Poland, 1939 - 1940
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T4 Program
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Ghettos
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Einsatzgruppen
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SS and camp system
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Film Clips: Life Unworthy of Life; The Pianist, Genocide: The World At War, Vol. 20
Day 5:
The Holocaust
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The Holocaust (1941-1945)
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Rescue and Resistance
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Testimony
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Assessing responsibility
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Films: Kitty: Return to Auschwitz; One Survivor Remembers; Courage to Care; Secret Lives: Hidden Children & their Rescuers During World War II; Telling Their Stories: NH Survivors Speak Out; Trial of Adolph Eichmann; The Pianist; Sighet, Sighet
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