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Arriving at Auschwitz-Birkenau
Students will go through testimonies and photographs from the different stages people went through upon deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Artistry of the Mentally Ill
Using the art and experience of one individual, Franz Karl Bühlerthis lesson asks students to examine the connections between culture and ideology using the Nazi staged art exhibition, “Degenerate Art” and the Nazi T4 program.
At the Gates of Death
Students will watch videos and testimonies to learn about people’s experiences at Auschwitz and other extermination camps.
Auschwitz Through Art
Explore art created by victims of Auschwitz and the reasons and risks people took in order to create them.
Conspiracy
Students will watch a clip of the 1984 German film Die Wannseekonferenz, witnessing how Nazi officials controlling various facets of German bureaucratic life worked together to make decisions surrounding the minutiae involved in organizing the genocide of 11 million people.
Eugenics
Acquaint students with eugenics, a movement that distorted science in order to justify negative ideas about minorities and people with disabilities.
Mapping Stories of Extermination
Explore an interactive map and tap into first-hand accounts from various sites of massacre across Eastern Europe, a space that came to be known as the Bloodlands.
Operation Barbarossa
Introduce students to the Einsatzgruppen and methods of extermination during the Holocaust.
Organizing the Final Solution
Students will read and examine a copy of the minutes of the Wannsee Conference, which helped to determine the fate of European Jews and remains one of the most damning pieces of evidence about the intentions of the Nazis in committing genocide.
Selling Murder
Critically watch a film that promotes to a broad audience the sterilization and so-called mercy killing of non-Aryans by the Nazi regime.
The Devil’s in the Details
Students will explore just how complex the Nazi effort was to destroy European Jews, as well as the vague or subtle language used to describe how to implement a systematic genocide within Europe.
The Nazi Camp System
Students will read through resources by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum on the different types of camp systems established by the Nazi regime.