Hall
of Remembrance Topics 2008
If you have any questions email me at:
mike.madden@fortbendisd.com
THE GHETTO’S
Use the following links to address your
project topics.
Using a black poster board (standard size) research a given ghetto system.
1. List NEATLY all pertinent facts that cover pre-German occupation to the
demise of the ghetto.
2. Include pictures, maps, or your own visual representation that portrays life
in the ghetto.
HUNGARY:
Budapest
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005264
LATIVA:
Riga
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/index.php?ModuleId=10005370
LITHUANIA
Kovno
(Kaunas)
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005174
Vilna
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005173
POLAND
Krakow
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005169
Lodz
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005071
Warsaw
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005069
ROMANIA
Chernovtsy
http://www.edwardvictor.com/Ghettos/Chernovtsy.htm
USSR
Minsk
http://www.deathcamps.org/occupation/minsk%20ghetto.html
GREECE
Salonika
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/index.php?ModuleId=10005422&Type=normal+article
http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=62916617
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/greecetoc.html
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RELATED TOPICS:
Using a black poster board (standard size), research one of the following
ghetto system related topics.
1. List NEATLY all pertinent facts that detail your topic.
2. Include pictures, maps, or your own visual representation that portrays your
topic.
The roots of Anti-Semitism
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/lp_res/AnneFrankAnti-Semitism.html
Judenrat- http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/7071/judenrat.html
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/index.php?ModuleId=10005422&Type=normal+article
Kristallnacht: (Night of Broken glass)
http://motlc.wiesenthal.org/pages/t042/t04201.html
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/index.php?ModuleId=10005422&Type=normal+article
Anne Frank-
http://www.annefrank.com/1_life.htm
http://www.hws.edu/news/update/showrelease.asp?id=1404
http://www.sptimes.com/News/032200/NIE/Guilt_of_survival_beg.shtml
http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/aa031298.htm
NUREMBERG LAWS:
http://www.mtsu.edu/~baustin/nurmberg.html
http://www.chgs.umn.edu/Educational_Resources/Curriculum/Broken_Threads/Nuremberg_Laws/nuremberg_laws.html
DEPORTATION
Using
a white poster board (standard size) research the deportation process.
1. List NEATLY all pertinent facts that cover the deportation process from the
liquidating of the ghetto to the train stopping at its final destination
2. Include pictures, or your own visual representation that portrays the
deportation process.
3. You may wish to recount survivor stories in reference to the horrible
conditions on the trains.
*Links you can
use: http://motlc.wiesenthal.org/pages/t024/t02403.html
Pics.
http://www.ushmm.org/uia-cgi/uia_query/photos?hr=null&query=kw110191
KINDERTRANSPORTS
http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/rz3a035/kindertransport.html
http://www.ushmm.org/uia-cgi/uia_cgi/topics/article.utp?id=10005260
http://flock.mwci.net/~edsdanzig/train.html
Deportation #1-- http://www.cympm.com/train.html
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-deport.htm
German Railroads:
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/index.php?ModuleId=10005445&Type=normal+article
The Lublin Reservation
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/index.php?ModuleId=10005422&Type=normal+article
The Madagascar Plan
http://history1900s.about.com/library/holocaust/aa071299.htm
Initial Deportations to the "East"
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/index.php?ModuleId=10005422&Type=normal+article
Intensified Deportations to Camps
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/The_Deportation_of_Austrian_and_German_Jews.html
Personal Story of
Deportation:
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/phistories/phi_deportations_experiences_uu.htm
Personal
Story of Deportation 2
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/phistories/phi_deportations_journey_uu.htm
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THE
CONCENTRATION CAMPS
Using a black poster
board that measures exactly 24 inches in length by 16 inches in width (you will
need to cut it to the specifications) research a given Concentration Camp.
1. Neatly label the camp name at the top of the poster.
2. List NEATLY all pertinent facts about the camp from its creation to its
destruction.
3. Include pictures, maps, or your own visual representation that portrays the
camp.
THE MAJOR
DEATH/CONCENTRATION/LABOR CAMPS:
DEATH CAMPS: http://www.mtsu.edu/~baustin/holocamp.html
Auschwitz/Birkenau
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/focus/auschwitz/
http://www.deathcamps.info/new_page_1.htm
Belzec
http://www.deathcamps.info/new_page_4.htm
Chelmno
http://www.zchor.org/chelmno.htm
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/index.php?ModuleId=10005145&Type=normal+article
Majdanek
Sobibor
Treblinka
http://www.deathcamps.info/new_page_3.htm
CONCENTRATION CAMPS/LABOR CAMPS:
AUSTRIA:
Mauthausen
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/index.php?ModuleId=10005145&Type=normal+article
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/mauthtoc.html
CZECHOSLAVKIA:
Terezin (Theresienstadt)
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/index.php?ModuleId=10005145&Type=normal+article
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/terezin.html
LATIVA:
Kaiserwald
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Kaiserwald.html
FRANCE:
Natzweiler/Struthof
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/natztoc.html
GERMANY:
Buchenwald
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/buchtoc.html
Bergen Belsen
http://www.deathcamps.info/new_page_5.htm
Dachau
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/dachautoc.html
Ravensbruck
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/ravetoc.html
Sachsenhausen
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/sachtoc.html
NETHERLANDS:
Westerbork
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/westtoc.html
POLAND:
Plaszow
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/plaztoc.html
Stutthof
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/stuttoc.html
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RELATED PROJECT TOPICS:
Using a standard size black poster board, research a given related topic.
1. Neatly label your topic at the top of the poster board.
2. List NEATLY all pertinent facts about your topic.
3. Include pictures, maps, or your own visual representation that portrays your
topic.
NAZI
LEADERS:
http://www.auschwitz.dk/id4.htm
Josef
Goebbels
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/goebbels.html
Hermann Goering
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/goering.html
Rudolf
Hess
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hesstoc.html
Adolf Hitler
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hitler.html
http://www.auschwitz.dk/id4.htm
Amon Goeth (Plaszow)
http://www.jewishgen.org/ForgottenCamps/Misc/MainSearchEng.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/goethpic.html
Arthur
Liebehenschel (Auschwitz)
http://www.wsg-hist.uni-linz.ac.at/Auschwitz/HTML/Liebehenschel.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Liebehenschel
SS LEADERS:
Helpful link for SS leaders: http://www.auschwitz.dk/id4.htm
Reinhard
Heydrich
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Heydrich.html
Heinrich
Himmler
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/GERhimmler.htm
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/himmler.html
EINSATZGRUPPEN:
(Mobile Killing Squads)
http://www.einsatzgruppenarchives.com/documents/introduction.html
Auschwitz Doctor of Experimentation
http://www.auschwitz.dk/doctors.htm
Josef
Mengele
Final Solution:
T-4- http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/t4.html
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/hitleryouth.html
EARLY
EXTERMINATION PROCEDURES: (The Gas Vans)
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/gastoc.html
ZYKLON B AND THE
GAS CHAMBER
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Zyklon.html
Who
ordered the killings?
http://www.kimel.net/killing.html
Eugenics’ and the Third Reich
http://www.ziplink.net/~bright/papers/3rdreich.html
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/holocaust/h-euthanasia.htm
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THE
RESISTANCE:
Using a white poster board
(standard size) research the leaders of the Resistance movements.
1. List NEATLY all pertinent facts that cover the people and the places that
were fronts for Jewish resistance from beginning to end.
2. Include pictures, or your own visual representation that portrays the
Resistance Movements.
Use the following link to find Ghetto/Concentration Camp Resistance individuals
by Ghetto/Camp name.
http://motlc.wiesenthal.org/pages/t066/t06685.html
GHETTO RESISTANCE:
Bialystok:
Haika
Grosman
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWgrosman.htm
Mordechai
Tenenbaum
http://www.zabludow.com/bialystokghettofighters.html
KOVNO:
Gesja
Glazer
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://www.olokaustos.org/opposizione/biografie/resbio/glazer.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3DGesja%2BGlazer%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26domains%3Dhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org
VILNA:
Glazman,
Josef
http://www1.yadvashem.org/odot_pdf/Microsoft%20Word%20-%206295.pdf
http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=it&u=http://www.olokaustos.org/opposizione/biografie/resbio/glazman.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3DGlazman,%2BJosef%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26domains%3Dhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org
WARSAW:
Mordechai Anielewicz
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/people/Anielewi.htm
Vladka Meed
http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/smwgupri.htm
"The
shooting got closer and I was sure that I, this time I am done."
CONCENTRATION
CAMP RESISTANCE:
Auschwitz:
Roza
Robota
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWrobota.htm
Mala
Zimetbaum
http://www.ideajournal.com/articles.php?id=15
http://www3.sympatico.ca/mighty1/valor/bios8.htm
http://www.en.reporter.edu.pl/content/view/full/69
Sobibor:
ALEKSANDER
PECHERSKY
http://www1.yadvashem.org/about_yad/magazine/data6/Sobibor.html
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RIGHTEOUS AMONG
THE NATIONS
Cut a standard size white poster board into the shape of a rock (As big of
a rock cutout from the poster board as you need.
Rock shapes are of all different variations but are usually close to
being round, oblong etc…) to use for researching the leaders of the Righteous
Among The Nations.
1. Cover this with brown paper that you can get from me.
2. Label it at the top NEATLY: Righteous Among The Nations and then underneath
that write NEATLY the person and where this person is from.
3. List NEATLY all pertinent facts that cover this person and why they are
considered a Righteous Among The Nations.
4. Include pictures, or your own visual representation that portrays this
person.
*Righteous Among The Nations
AUSTRIA:
DOROTHEA NEFF
http://www1.yadvashem.org/righteous/index_righteous.html
http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.n/n224489.htm
BELGIUM:
Rut Matthijsen
http://www.hearthasreasons.com/rutexcerpt.php
FRANCE:
Marie Benoit
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/Benoit.html
http://www.holocaustchronicle.org/StaticPages/513.html
GERMANY:
Gitta Bauer
http://216.239.37.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gitta_Bauer&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dgitta%2Bbauer%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DG%26domains%3Dhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org
Oskar
Schindler
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/schindler.html
GREECE:
Bishop Chrysostomos
http://www.ushmm.org/greece/eng/zakyntho.htm
HOLLAND:
The Westerweel Group
http://www.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/book/Pinkhof/mpstory3.html
http://sorrel.humboldt.edu/~rescuers/book/Pinkhof/mppix/joop.gif
JAPAN:
Chiune and Yukiko Sugihara
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/sugihara.html
POLAND:
Jan Zabinski
http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/HRCA/news/to_save_one_life_p3.htm
Gisi Fleischmann
http://www3.sympatico.ca/mighty1/valor/bios.htm
PORTUGAL:
ARISTIDES DE
SOUSA MENDES
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/Mendes.html
SWEDEN:
RAOUL WALLENBERG
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/wallenberg.html
Feng-Shan Ho
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/biography/ho.html
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THE CHILDREN OF
THE HOLOCAUST
Museum Of Tolerance Web address:
http://www.museumoftolerance.com/site/pp.asp?c=arLPK7PILqF&b=249655
Click on the link
above. Once you get to the MUSEUM
OF TOLERANCE, click on CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST.
Once there, scroll down and click on OTHER CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST.
There you will find, by letter, an alphabetized listing of your child by
his/her last name.
Using a black
poster board (standard size) for your project, research a child of the
Holocaust.
*The whole point of this project is to parallel your life and your future
opportunities with that of a child who never got a chance to realize their
future. In essence, your project
becomes a testimony to how you plan on making the most out of your life on
behalf of a child victim of the Holocaust who was not given this opportunity.
1. List NEATLY at
the top the title: IT COULD HAVE BEEN ME
2. ON HALF of the
poster board, place a picture of YOU and NEATLY discuss certain facts about who
you are and your life. (Family, friends, interests, opportunities, future
aspirations, goals etc….) ON THE OTHER HALF, place a picture of your child and NEATLY discuss
certain facts about this child as found in your research.
3. Save an area of the poster board for a poem that you will write that ties you
and your life together with your child and their life.
This should also be a testimony to how you plan to live a better life on
behalf of your child. Come up with a sincere title for your poem.
The Life of Abraham Beem
The Life of Agnes Ringwald
The Life of Alexander Hornemann
The Life of Alinka Lilka
The Life of Bronislaw Honig
The Life of Cary Krell
The Life of Edith Schwimmer
The Life of Elinor Oettinger
The Life of Emmanuel Alper
The Life of Eva Isaac
The Life of Georges Andre Kohn
The Life of Greti Skala
The Life of Hannah Hajek
The Life of Hansgeorg Isaac
The Life of Helen (Potyo)
Katz
The Life of Isac Brauman
The Life of Joshua Salman
The Life of Lenka Nadolna
The Life of Lore Heuman
The Life of Manfred Frank
The Life of Margot Heuman
The Life of Renate Wolff
The Life of Reva Gabe
The Life of Ruth Moses
The Life of Samuel Hiller
The Life of Shelaibi Eizikovits
The Life of Stella Klingerova
The Life of Tibor Roth
The Life of Yehiel Goldberg
The Life of Yitskhok Rudashevski
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Related Topic:
Januz Korscazk
1. On a black standard size poster board, NEATLY recount the life of Januz
Korscazk.
2. Be sure to include pictures, or your own visual representation of his
life.
*Use the link below to guide you in your research.
http://www.iearn.org/hgp/aeti/aeti-1997/janusz-korczak.html
Korczak,
Janus
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LIFE
IN THE GHETTOS AND IN THE CAMPS as depicted by poetry and artwork.
Poetry from
within the camps:
1.
Choose ANY color poster board (standard size), and other than black, to
do your research on certain poetry in the ghettos and camps.
At the top, NEATLY write out the title of your poem.
2. NEATLY write out your poem on
the poster board.
3. Add pictures that represent your
poem or draw your own visual representation of what you think the author is
depicting.
4. In your own words NEATLY explain
what the poem is saying to you.
*Using the links below, find your poem.
http://www.telisphere.com/~cearley/sean/camps/german.htm
http://www.ionaprep.org/projects/persecution/holo.htm
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Forum/5245/
Night
over Birkenau, Tadeusz Borowski
He
Was Lucky, Anna Swirszczynska
The
Passion of Ravensbrück, János Pilinszky
The
Butterfly, Pavel Friedmann
A
Letter to Daddy, unknown
A
Cartload of Shoes, Abraham Sutzkever
O
the Chimneys, Nelly Sachs
Never
Shall I Forget, Elie Wiesel
"O
the Night of the Weeping Children!": By Nelly Sachs
"They
Pushed Us Into Those Trains": By Chris Fleizach
We,
The Children
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Art
from within the camps
Use the links below to research a given piece or pieces of artwork done by
ghetto/concentration camps inhabitants.
1. Choose any color standard size
poster board, other than black and on the top NEATLY write out the title of the
piece of artwork, who did it, etc..
2. Print the art piece out (in color would be great if you can but it is
not mandatory) and place it on your poster board.
3. NEATLY discuss what the artist
is depicting.
4. NEATLY discuss what the art
piece is saying to you!
http://art.holocaust-education.net/explore.asp?langid=1&submenu=200
Jacques
Gotko (Yakow Gotkowski)
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Liberation Accounts:
1. On a standard size poster board of any color (other than black), research one
of the given individuals.
2. List all pertinent information
that details the horrors of the liberation process that your individual
witnessed.
3. Be sure to include pictures (non
graphic, these should be pictures of happy survivors) or create your own visual
illustration that coincides with your information.
*Use the link below to guide you in your research.
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/people/liberato.htm
General Sparks
offers his perspective on the liberation of Dachau.
This is a brief
description of Abram Sachar's experience in the liberation of Dachau.
Colonel Edmund M. of the United States Army, describes Mauthausen shortly
after its liberation.
Staff Sgt. Albert J. Kosiek describes the liberation of Mauthausen and
Gusen camps.
The liberation of Buchenwald by Harry J. Herder, Jr. offers great detail
in its descriptions.
Glenn Edward Belcher: Dachau Liberator.
Captain J.D. Pletcher, 71st Division Headquarters.
Liberation of Dachau:
http://nizkor.org/hweb/camps/dachau/dachau-01.html
http://www.fatherryan.org/holocaust/dachlib/
THE OTHERS:
On a white poster board, research the other victims of the Holocaust.
Divide your poster board in such a way that each identifying group is
recognized.
1. NEATLY label your title at the top- THE
OTHERS
2. Use the links below to guide you in your research.
3. List any and all pertinent facts for each group.
4. Be sure to include pictures or
your own visual illustrations to represent each group.
Gypsies:
http://www.holocaustforgotten.com/romgypsies.htm
Jehovah
Witnesses:
http://www.holocaustforgotten.com/Jehovah.htm
The disabled:
http://www.holocaustforgotten.com/NewsDisabled.htm
Homosexuals:
http://www.holocaustforgotten.com/NewsGays.htm
The Nuremberg Trials:
http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/nurpictoc.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Trials
http://fcit.coedu.usf.edu/holocaust/resource/gallery/N1945.htm
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NATIONS
INVOLVED IN LIBERATING THE MAJOR CAMPS: (2 Projects)
Using TWO white poster boards (standard size):
1. On each poster board NEATLY
reproduce the Flag of the Nations that your are researching.
Make this at least half of each poster board.
2. Underneath each flag, list
NEATLY the pertinent facts about how each Nation was involved in liberation.
*Use the links below to help guide you in researching your Nations.
http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/liberati.htm
http://www.ushmm.org/outreach/gge72080.htm
United States and Canada
Soviet Union and France
SURVIVORS:
Museum Of Tolerance Web address:
http://www.museumoftolerance.com/site/pp.asp?c=arLPK7PILqF&b=249655
Click on the link above. Once
you get to the MUSEUM OF TOLERANCE, click on CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST.
Once there, scroll down and click on OTHER CHILDREN OF THE HOLOCAUST.
There you will find, by letter, an alphabetized listing of your child by
his/her last name.
*Using any color standard size poster board, (other than black) for your
project, research your child survivors of the Holocaust.(10 projects)
1. At the top label NEATLY the
title- FROM THE ASHES
2. Divide your poster board into
two halves and list NEATLY all pertinent facts about each survivor from
beginning to end.
3. Include pictures or your own
visual expression that illustrates your survivors.
CHILD SURVIVORS:
Alfred Ament/Amalia Dembitzer
Augusta Feldhorn/Barbara Schechter
Doris Wohlfarth/Ebi Gruenblatt
Elizabeth Lintzel /Eva Lintzel
Hanna Frank/Inge Auerbacher
Jasia Starkopf/Lida Mordehay
Lilly Klein/Lillyan Cohn
Lore Baer/Luba Reches
Lutz Ludwig Posener/Magda Mozes
Samuel Oliner/Simcha Frumkin
