EXTENDING HOLOCAUST STUDY

Topics for student research and individualized and/or independent study:

Anti-Semitism

• Nazi Racism, the Nazi use of racial theory
• Victims of Nazi persecution: homosexuals, Jehovah Witnesses, Roma (Gypsies)
• Jews in Prewar Germany
• Jewish life in Europe before the Holocaust

Nazi Rule

• The Third Reich, German state and society
• Hitler Youth
• Nuremberg Laws
• T-4 Program: the murder of the handicapped
• German rule in Occupied Europe
• Vichy France
• Kristallnacht (The Night of Broken Glass)
• Pogroms
• Voyage of the St. Louis
• Evian Conference
• The U.S. response to the Holocaust

Ghettoization

• Ghettos of Poland/Life in the Ghettos
• Forced labor, exploitation of prisoner poor

Killing Phase

• Wannsee Conference
• Final Solution
• Types of camps and their establishment
• Mobile killing Units (Einsatzgruppen)

Death Marches

• Death Camps, camps designed for mass murder:
• Auschwitz, Treblinka, Belzec, Chelmno, Sobibor, Maidanek (Majdanek)

Resistance and Rescue

• Resistance and partisans
• White Rose
• Rescue, acts of courage to save victims
• Raoul Wallenberg, Janusz Korzcak
• Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Postwar

• Liberation, Allied forces encounter prisoners of the Nazi Camps
• War Crimes Trials, bringing war criminals to justice; Eichmann trial
• DP (Displaced Persons) Camps
• Perpetrators
• Survivors and the Postwar World
• Nazi Hunters, Simon Wiesenthal
• Neo-Nazis in Europe and the U.S.

Published in cooperation with the North Carolina Council on the Holocaust
Copyright © 2002 by the North Carolina Council on the Holocaust. Updated 2005.
North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
http://www.ncpublicschools.org/holocaust_council/