UNDERSTANDING THE VOICES AND CHOICES OF YOUNG PEOPLE DURING THE HOLOCAUST

June 29-30, 2015

Synthesizing Our Learning About the Holocaust

I’m Still Here: Salvaged Pages

The film, I’m Still Here: Real Diaries of Young People Who Lived During the Holocaust is based upon the book

Salvaged Pages: Young Writers’ Diaries of the Holocaust. The diary excerpts read in the film come from the actual pages of the young writers. Like Anne Frank, who wrote

her diary while in hiding in Amsterdam, these young writers did not know if they would survive or if their

diaries would be discovered and read.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_cpvkIU6IY

Human Timeline

• Rationale : The human timeline teaching strategy uses movement to help students understand and remember the chronology of events.

Setting historical context of period of time leading up to the Holocaust, along with the chronology of events as they come up in Anne Frank: The

Diary of a Young Girl.

Weimar Republic Resource Page

https://www.facinghistory.org/weimar

Propaganda and Hitler Youth

Source: http://research.calvin.edu/german-propaganda-archive/hj-wochenparole.htm

“The dead of the great war of 1914-1918 have been avenged. The burden that our fathers had to bear after giving up a war they had not lost has been taken from them. The whole world looks at us with great respect!We are armed for the final battle against England.German youth, remain loyal, ready to sacrifice, obedient and alert!Captain Ziersch/ Bearer of the Knight’s Cross”#24/1940: 19-25 August

Alfons Heck and “Heil Hitler”

Think – Pair - Share

What happened to Alfons Heck as a young boy?

What led him from having Jewish friends to only feeling sorry for watching his friend being deported?

What role did propaganda play in influencing him ( in his own words)?

Which forms of propaganda did he find most effective?

Journaling

Keeping in mind all the voices we’ve come across, how

does identity influence our

choices?