HOLOCAUST RESEARCH TOPICS

Ghettos – How did people end up in the ghettos?

Ghettos – Warsaw Ghetto General Info.

Ghettos – Lodz Ghetto General Info

Ghettos - - Terezin/Theresianstadt General Info.

Ghettos – Krakow Ghetto

Life in the Ghettos - Conditions

From the Ghettos to . . . (did people leave the ghetto and if so, where did they go?)

Heroism – (resistance members, people who hid children, liberators, others – need seven students to do seven stories on heroes – work together to avoid more than one student doing the same individual

Heroism - Kindertransport

Bystanders – 2 students to fully explore the topic of bystanders – individuals who knew what was going on but did nothing.  Include their reasons.

Camps:  Transport Trains to camps - conditions

Camps: Auschwitz

Camps:  Treblinka

Camps:  Bergen-Belsen

Camps:  Chemno

Camps:  Buchenwald

Camps:  A Day in the Life – two students to work together

Camp Liberation – Describe the experience

Timeline of Events – The Rise of Hitler 1933-

Timeline of Events - Jewish persecution 1933-

Timeline of Events – Kristallnacht - 1938

Timeline of Events – Nazi occupations and invasions of European countries – 1939-

Timeline of Events - Babi Yar - 1941

Timeline of Events - Lidice incident following assassination of Heydrich- 1942

Timeline of Events – Warsaw Ghetto Uprising - 1943

Timeline of Events – Death Marches - 1944

Timeline of Events – Oskar Schindler saves 1200 Jews - 1944

Timeline of Events – Liberation of Budapest, Auschwitz, Buchenwald, Dachau, etc. 1945

Timeline of Events – Nuremburg Trials – 1945-

Timeline of Events – Simon Wiesenthal – 1947-

Perpetrators – Adolf Hitler

Perpetrators – Adolf Eichmann

Perpetrators – Henrich Himmler

Perpetrators – Joseph Goebbels

Perpetrators – Rudolf Hess

Perpetrators – Hermann Goering

Perpetrators – Joseph Mengele

Perpetrators – Albert Speer

Politics - antisemitism

Politics – Third Reich

Politics – Nazi Party

Politics – Master Aryan Race

Politics – The Final Solution

Politics – Nazi Propaganda

Politics - Gestapo

Victims – European Jews

Victims – Roma Gypsies

Victims – Mentally and Physically Disabled People

Victims – Clergy (Catholic/Christian priests and leaders)

Victims – non-Jewish Poles

Victims – Soviet prisoners of war

Holocaust in Film/Movies

Holocaust in Literature – Anne Frank, Night, Boy in Str. Paj.

Judaism – faith, religion, culture, symbols – 3 students to work together.